Hillary Clinton says ‘Don’t vote for someone you wouldn’t trust with your dog’ as she trolls South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who revealed she shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy Cricket
Hillary Clinton trolled South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday after admitting in her upcoming book that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog, Cricket.
Clinton had tweeted in February 2021: “Don’t vote for anyone you wouldn’t trust with your dog.”
At the time, the message was addressed to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who left the family poodle Snowflake at home while vacationing in Cancun amid a dangerous winter storm in Texas.
“Still true,” Clinton posted on X Monday, an apparent jab at Noem about her decision to kill Cricket.
Noem’s new book, No Turning Back: The Truth About What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forwarddetailed how she shot the dog and a male goat in an attempt to show that she is capable of dealing with all that is “difficult, messy and ugly.”
Hillary Clinton (left) trolled South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (right) on Monday after admitting in her upcoming book that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog, Cricket. She received a lot of criticism for not rehoming the young dog
Clinton originally wrote: ‘Don’t vote for someone you wouldn’t trust with your dog’ after Republican Senator Ted Cruz abandoned his dog Snowflake in Texas during a major winter storm – on Monday she applied the same motto to Noem
But she clearly underestimated the consequences.
‘She’s DOA,’ a Trump ally told The Hillsuggesting she had reduced her chances of becoming former President Donald Trump’s running mate in 2024.
“Any time you have to respond to a story more than once, that’s not good,” the source added.
Another Republican strategist echoed that point.
“She essentially took herself out of the race to become vice president,” the strategist told the newspaper.
In the book, the governor writes that she shot Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, in the gravel pit on her family’s property just before her children came home from school.
The dog, Noem claimed, had an “aggressive personality” that could not be tamed – as evidenced by Cricket ruining a pheasant hunt because he was “crazy with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time for her.” to live.’
Cricket was a wire-haired pointer (pictured) who had an “aggressive personality,” Noem claimed, and ate a number of chickens belonging to a local family like “a trained assassin” before turning and bit her.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is photographed with another dog she owned, Hazel, a Vizsla
A Facebook photo shows South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem holding a gun. In her upcoming book, she writes about Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, who shot Noem in the gravel pit on her family property just before her children came home from school.
Furthermore, when the governor of South Dakota took Cricket to meet a local family, the dog began killing the family’s chickens like “a trained killer.”
According to a book excerpt obtained by the GuardianCricket “took one chicken at a time, crunched it to death with one bite, then dropped it to attack another.”
When Noem finally got the dog, she wrote that Cricket “twisted around trying to bite me.”
Cricket was ‘the epitome of pure joy.’ Meanwhile, the owner of the chickens was crying.
Noem said she wrote a check “for the price they asked and helped them clean up the carcasses at the scene of the crime.”
“I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, believing the fourteen-month-old pooch was “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came into contact with,” and “less than worthless… as a hunting dog.”
So she decided to kill Cricket.
“At that moment,” the governor wrote. “I realized I had to put her down.”
“It wasn’t a fun job,” Noem said, “but it had to be done. And when it was over, I realized there was still a nasty job to be done.”
Noem also decided to get rid of the family goat because it was “filthy and mean,” as it remained unneutered and smelled “disgusting, musky (and) rancid” and “liked to chase the governor’s children.”
She also “dragged him to the gravel pit,” but the goat jumped up when she tried to shoot him, keeping him alive for a moment.
Noem said she had to go back to her truck to pick up another grenade and “then rushed back to the gravel pit and dropped it off.”
Her actions were witnessed, she said, by a construction crew working nearby.
Moments later the bus dropped off her children.
“Kennedy looked around in confusion,” Noem recalled of her daughter, who asked, “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
Noem then admitted, “If I were a better politician, I wouldn’t be telling the story here.”
Since the public outcry over her treatment of Cricket, Noem has been forced to respond several times.
On Friday, Noem wrote on X: “We love animals, but on a farm, tough decisions like this happen all the time.”
“Unfortunately, a few weeks ago we had to put down three horses that had been in our family for 25 years,” she said.
“If you want more real, honest and politically incorrect stories that the media will crave, pre-order ‘No Going Back,’” the governor added.
On Sunday, Noem described Cricket as a “working dog” in a post on
She then claimed she had the right to shoot him.
“The fact is that South Dakota law states that dogs that attack and kill livestock can be put down. Considering that Cricket was showing aggressive behavior towards people by biting them, I decided what I did,” she wrote.