Gov. Kristi Noem suggested President Joe Biden’s dog Commander should be euthanized because of his aggressive behavior in another surprising defense of the shooting death of his 14-month-old puppy.
The South Dakota Republican said she told the story about the murder of her farm dog Cricket because “people need to understand who I am.”
At the end of her book, where she told the story of shooting and killing the dog, Noem suggested that Biden’s German shepherd commander should be put down and wrote that the dog should “say hello to Cricket.”
On Sunday he doubled down, telling CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan that he thinks it would be best to euthanize the president’s dog, which was removed from the White House complex after a series of attacks.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem doubled down on her suggestion to euthanize President Joe Biden’s dog Commander.
Biden’s German Commander Shepard was kicked out of the White House complex after multiple reports of biting incidents.
“Joe Biden’s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,” Noem said. “So how many people are enough to be attacked and dangerously injured before making a decision about a dog?”
He added: “That’s the issue the president should be held accountable for.”
Several reports emerged about how Commander exhibited aggressive behavior toward staff and specifically raised safety concerns and bite risks for Secret Service agents.
However, he evaded Brennan’s question about whether he felt the Commander “should be shot.”
Noem said she took care of her “untrainable” dog the right way, taking Cricket to a gravel pit and shooting him after aggressive behavior like killing neighbors’ chickens and trying to bite her.
Critics claim that Noem, who shot her dog while her children were at school, could have rehomed the dog or surrendered to a shelter that might have been better equipped to train the animal.
Noem details a story in her upcoming book about shooting and killing her ‘dangerous’ 14-month-old farm puppy Cricket (not pictured)
Noem’s book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward hits shelves May 7. The release comes after weeks of criticism after an excerpt was published in The Guardian where the governor told a two-decade old man a story about killing his family’s farm dog.
“The reason this story is in the book is because people need to understand who I am and some of those difficult decisions,” Noem told Brennan on Sunday, explaining why she included the account of the decision to kill Cricket.
Noem’s chances of being selected as Donald Trump’s vice president also dropped sharply after the story broke.
