“Trained assassin.” On the way back to her farm, Noem writes that while she stopped to talk to local residents, the dog escaped from the truck and killed a family’s chickens. According to the republican, Cricket even tried to bite her and behaved like “a trained killer”.
Dog was shot dead. Because of this situation, Noem reportedly decided to kill the dog, which she classified as “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came into contact with” and “less than useless” as a hunting dog. The Republican allegedly took Cricket to a gravel pit and shot the animal. “I hated that dog,” she says.
On the same day, another death. After killing Cricket, the republican also says that she decided to kill a goat on the farm with two shots. According to Noem, the animal was “nasty and mean”, smelly and liked to chase her children. The goat, which had no name, was injured but managed to escape the first shot. The Republican then returned to her truck, took another cartridge and shot a second time, killing the animal.
Child missed the puppy. Noem further reports that, shortly after, her daughter Kennedy came home from school confused and asked, “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
Determined, even for dirty jobs. According to The Guardian, the governor of South Dakota says in her book that these stories serve to demonstrate that in politics she is also willing to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if necessary, just as she does in her private life . “I think if I were a better politician, I wouldn’t have told the story here,” she writes.
Democrats react
The National Committee of the Democratic Party – to which President Joe Biden, Trump’s opponent, belongs – classified the reports as “truly disturbing and horrific”. And he appealed to voters: “If you want elected officials who don’t brag about brutally killing your pets as part of a promotional act for their book, vote Democrat.”
