South Dakota Governor Christie Noam is defending her decision
to kill her 14 month old female dog Cricket.
It's a puppy, actually. So
Noam, who's considered a contender to become Donald Trump's vice
presidential running mate,
received backlash from both sides of the aisle after a
passage in her upcoming memoir revealed a startling anecdote where
she admitted
to murdering her dog. According to an excerpt from The
Guardian,
Nome took cricket. That's the little girl puppies name the
puppy on a pheasant hunt with older dogs,
but writes that the young pup ruined the hunt after
chasing the birds and going out of her mind.
God, what she's going to do.
She had a bad morning,
so the dog was bounding around with excitement And so
happy,
she said too happy. Nome describes calling cricket cricket,
then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her
under control.
One of those shock collars.
You know, nothing worked to stop Cricket from running around
with joy.
Then, on the way home after the hunt,
as Nome stopped, talked to a local family,
Cricket escaped Nome's truck and attacked the
family's chickens, grabbing one chicken at a time,
crunching it to death with one bite,
by the way, and then dropping it to attack.
It happens. The question is like,
how can the governor? How can the Governor not keep?
I've been there, a dog under control.
Well, it happened. Was it on the leash
or or whatever? She's blaming the dog.
This is the part I don't understand of the truck.
I hated that dog, Nome writes,
adding that cricket had proved herself cricket.
Untrainable cricket. It's dangerous to anyone.
She came in contact with Cricket,
not her, and less worthless as a hunting dog.
Cricket at that moment, Nome says.
I realized I had to put alright,
alright. It was not a pleasant job,
she writes. But it had to be done.
The puppy to a gravel pit
and and after Nome story caused controversy,
the governor doubled down and tried to paint the story
as one of the necessary dark sides of farm life.
Writing on X. The fact is,
South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill
livestock can be put down.
Given that cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by
biting them,
I decide the dog tried to bite her.
I decided what I did.
I followed the law
and was responsible being responsible for parents,
dogs and we've done enough of this.
Well done she Then she then revealed that she killed
the family goat
because it was gross and it knocked down her kit.
Goats do that. Goats can be a little gross,
but
she killed it in the gravel pit along with the
puppy.
Let's bring in right now former White House Director of
Communications and President Obama,
Jen Palmieri. She's Co host of MSNBC podcast
How to Win 2024 and Survive Your Goat.
And MSNBC contributor and author of the book
Held the Right, Lost its Mind and started Killing puppies
and gravel pits.
Kind of a strange title for a book but I
guess he saw this coming.
Charlie. Sykes, Charlie. OK, we we could talk about the
tragedy of cricket and this poor goat Festus or whatever
it is.
It's more what's going through her mind.
Well that makes her think she should murder a puppy
in cold blood immediately after getting angry.
No. Well, you can do that.
But it's the confessional aspect,
Charlie. The confessional aspect was done as a political pose.
I'm tough. I'm me. I'm an SOB.
I'll even kill a little puppy
if it gets in my way.
I mean, I think that's the sickest part of this,
that Donald Trump's Republican Party and and and the grotesque,
the grotesqueness of the conservative movements.
Do we have a picture of violent.
Let me finish, please. Violent wing.
This is where they go.
This is virtue signaling for Republicans.
This is virtue signaling. I shot in cold blood a
puppy and a gravel pit.
I think that is the most extraordinary part about all
of this,
that she thought that this would be a plus for
her.
Look, this book is a campaigned book.
It is a resume to be Donald Trump's vice president.
And she thought it was a good idea.
Let's include this story. Let's tell this story about myself,
how I took this puppy and shot him in the
gravel pit.
So why would she have done this?
The the obvious explanation is she thought that Donald Trump
would like it.
She thought that this would be a net positive.
I could imagine her buddy Corey Lewandowski saying no,
put it in because you know that Donald Trump wants
people who are willing to do the tough,
dirty, nasty things that are necessary.
And she did. Now obviously it's blown up in her
face because even in our
even on earth 2.2 point
O killing puppies is is a net negative.
I suppose One of the good things is we haven't
seen mega world come out in absolute defense of puppy
killing.
Because of course
we've, we've seen them come out in favor of a
lot of things.
But this does say a lot that Christy Nome put
this in the book and did not think it would
be a net negative in the mind of Donald Trump.
And I do think this is just a,
you know, and why would she have thought that?
Well, because increasingly, brutality is the point.
Not just cruelty, but brutality.
Donald Trump has a fetish for this.
He talks about shooting, shooting shoplifters,
extrajudicial murders of drug dealers.
When he was president, he talked about how can you
make the,
the border fence, you know,
as vicious as possible. Can we put razors on it?
Can we do all of these things?
This is he tells stories about,
you know, shooting prisoners of war with bullets tipped in
pig blood.
And obviously there are people in
Trump's orbit who thinks that this is the kind of
thing that might that might induce him to think,
you know, she's a killer,
she's tough. She's exactly the kind of person who's willing
to do the courageous things that need to be done.