‘I hated that dog’: Trump VP contender boasts about killing puppy

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New York: She’s been touted for months arsenic 1 of the contenders to beryllium Donald Trump’s vice statesmanlike moving mate.

But the governmental ascension of South Dakota’s archetypal pistillate governor, Kristi Noem, is present nether scrutiny aft she outed herself arsenic thing unconscionable to galore voters: a puppy killer.

Donald Trump and Kristi Noem successful 2018.

Known for her emotion of guns and hunting, the fashionable Republican utilized her forthcoming memoir to boast astir sidesplitting her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, claiming it had an “aggressive personality” and wasn’t peculiarly bully astatine chasing down pheasants.

“I hated that dog,” the politician wrote.

According to the story, outlined successful an excerpt obtained by The Guardian, Noem had taken the pistillate wirehaired pointer retired for a hunt with older dogs successful the anticipation of teaching it however to behave.

Unfortunately, small Cricket “went retired of her caput with excitement, chasing each those birds and having the clip of her life”.

Worse still, Noem wrote, connected the mode home, she behaved similar “a trained assassin” and attacked chickens belonging to a section family.

Noem says that erstwhile she tried to drawback the puppy, Cricket “whipped astir to bite”. The 52-year-old mother-of-three aboriginal changeable Cricket successful a gravel pit.

“It was not a pleasant job, but it had to beryllium done,” she is quoted arsenic saying, pointing to the acquisition arsenic a measurement of her quality to bash “difficult, messy and disfigured things”.

Noem has agelong been rumoured to beryllium connected Trump’s agelong database of imaginable running-mate candidates for the November election.

Then president Donald Trump stands astatine Mount Rushmore National Memorial, adjacent Keystone, South Dakota successful 2020.

The brace archetypal met when, according to Noem, Trump relayed his imagination of having his look carved into Mount Rushmore, the celebrated memorial successful South Dakota featuring George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

“He said, ‘Kristi, travel connected implicit here. Shake my hand’,” Noem recalled successful an interrogation successful 2018.

“I shook his hand, and I said, ‘Mr President, you should travel to South Dakota sometime. We person Mount Rushmore’. And helium goes, ‘Do you cognize it’s my imagination to person my look connected Mount Rushmore?’”

But portion Noem is seen arsenic idiosyncratic who could person wide entreaty – telegenic, rugged, politically astute – the communicative of Cricket’s brutal demise whitethorn person been a span excessively acold for many, adjacent for those who similar a Republican whose societal media accounts are peppered with photos of herself posing successful hunting cogwheel adjacent to elephantine dormant elks and bears.

As quality of the memoir broke connected Saturday (AEST), dismayed societal media users started posting pics of their ain furbabies “to wide the palate aft learning Kristi Noem kills dogs”.

Trump’s niece Mary, who has made nary concealed of her disdain for her uncle and overmuch of her household wrote: “This is who they are”.

And erstwhile White House adjutant turned CNN commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed retired that it’s often not the canine that is the problem, but alternatively the substandard grooming by the owner.

Tulsi Gabbard (in white) and Democratic candidates assembled for a statesmanlike superior statement successful 2019.

“I’m a canine person and I americium honestly horrified by the Kristi Noem excerpt,” she said. “I privation I hadn’t adjacent work it. A 14-month-old canine is inactive a puppy and tin beryllium trained.”

Trump has spent the past fewer weeks on proceedings successful Manhattan charged with falsifying concern records to screen up an matter with a porn star, but is said to beryllium vetting a wide array of VP contenders. Aides person suggested helium denote 1 soon to assistance spruik his connection portion helium is stuck successful tribunal defending his galore transgression cases.

Others connected his shortlist see South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, author-turned-politician JD Vance, House Republican Conference seat Elise Stefanik, and adjacent erstwhile Democratic congresswoman for Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard, who competed for the statesmanlike information against Joe Biden successful 2019.

Despite the pushback, Noem doubled down connected Saturday.

“We emotion animals, but pugnacious decisions similar this hap each the clip connected a farm,” she said connected X, earlier giving a plug to her upcoming book.

“If you privation much real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll person the media gasping, preorder ‘No Going Back’.”

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