South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem defended herself on social media on Sunday after facing backlash for her admission that she killed one of her own dogs in a gravel pit after a pheasant hunt trip.British newspaper The Guardian published an excerpt of Noem's upcoming book, No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward on Friday in which the governor shared an account of shooting the 14-month-old puppy named Cricket, which she wrote had an "aggressive...
Jeet Heer The South Dakota governor is betting that GOP voters love performative cruelty, even if it’s inflicted on an adorable young doggy.
Trump’s potential vice-presidential pick admitted to shooting her dog in her new memoir
Kristi Noem has admitted to murdering her family's young dog. The governor has now doubled down on this heinous action, too. Kristi Noem Explains Why She Killed Her 14-Month Old Puppy was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) has received near-universal condemnation after her own autobiography revealed details about the gruesome killing of her old farm puppy, but Donald Trump is reportedly still singing the politician's praises.Noem, who earlier on Sunday clashed with CBS host Margaret Brennan over the controversy surrounding the governor's new book, "No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward," was evaluated by Trump along with other...
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) will speak in Golden this week amidst
Public disapproval mounts for South Dakota governor and vice-presidential hopeful whose book contains gruesome accountKristi Noem, the South Dakota governor and Republican vice-presidential hopeful, saw polling numbers plummet after the Guardian revealed that she writes in a new book about the day she shot dead a hunting dog and an un-castrated goat, a revelation that ignited a political storm.Announcing what it called its “Noem Puppy Murder Poll Findings”, New River Strategies, a Democratic...
South Dakota's Trump-worshipping governor, Kristi Noem, has angered folks of all political persuasions with her grisly tales of murdering her own pets. And now, the GOP is paying the price — literally. As reported in Salon, a recent fundraiser hosted by the Jefferson County Republican Party in Colorado had to be scrapped after Noem's admission of killing her 14-month-old puppy Cricket sparked a torrent of angry backlash and threats. — Read the rest
The South Dakota governor’s proud dog murder tells a lot about how posturing Trumpists like she and Greg Gianforte thinkAfter South Dakota’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, proudly admitted in a forthcoming memoir to marching her young puppy Cricket to a gravel pit to kill her with a shotgun, she rationalized the despicable act by arguing that Cricket had been aggressive.She also said that she used the same gravel pit to shoot a “disgusting, musky, rancid” unnamed goat – but botched the job,...
CNN contributors blasted South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), who reportedly shot a 14-month-old puppy to death. "This is something that she wrote in her book that she killed a 14-month-old puppy and a goat on her family farm," CNN's Dana Bash said Sunday. "And three horses, she said it wasn't a pleasant job, but it had to be done, and after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done, and then she went on to talk about her goat." CNN's Ana Navarro said she thought the...
Exclusive: great-niece of Walt Disney issues appeal to appalled voters on behalf of Progressive Change Campaign CommitteeEvoking the classic Disney tearjerker Old Yeller, in which a family is forced to put down their beloved dog, the US film-maker and campaigner Abigail Disney exhorted voters to oppose the Republican party of Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor whose story of killing Cricket, a 14-month-old dog, shocked the world and seemingly dynamited her hopes of being Donald Trump’s...
Stephen Colbert poked fun at Kristi Noem during The Late Show on Monday. He berated her for admitting to killing her 14-month-old puppy Cricket. Noem mentioned in her book that Cricket 'ruined the hunt'