Kristi Noem’s team cut dog-killing story from her first book fearing the impact it would have on her ‘brand’…but her new team did not stand in the way

In controversy over the story that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem once killed her own dog, it has been revealed that Noem actually tried to tell the story two years earlier.

Noem has made headlines and been all but ruled out as Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee following revelations that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog Cricket.

The story was detailed in an excerpt from her novel book, titled No Turning Back: The Truth About What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forwardwhich will be released on May 7.

Even Republicans in Congress have been willing to suggest that shooting her dog was a killer for Noem’s chances for vice president.

It has now been noted that Noem dropped the anecdote from her 2022 book because publishers were concerned it would damage her brand.

Noem wanted the story included in the tome “Not My First Rodeo: Lessons From the Heartland” because she believed it showed her as determined and unwilling to avoid difficult choices, according to Politics.

The editors and publicists at the Hachette Book Group wanted to dig into the story, as did Noem’s agents, who felt it was in bad taste. In the end they got their way.

Although that book made the New York Times bestseller list and got Noem on Trump’s radar, it did not dominate the news cycle.

The difference with the new book, according to sources, is that Hachette handed the new book over to their conservative-oriented publisher Center Street.

Noem’s team did not object to sharing the dog killing story this time, although Noem’s team has not publicly responded to the report.

The dog controversy, which has even angered her fellow conservatives on social media, has forced her hand Mention to do damage control.

“I can understand why some people are upset about a 20-year-old story about Cricket, one of the working dogs on our ranch,” she wrote on Sunday on can be placed. Because Cricket was showing aggressive behavior towards people by biting them, I decided what I did.”

Noem wanted the story included in the tome “Not My First Rodeo: Lessons From the Heartland” because she believed it showed her as decisive and unwilling to avoid difficult choices

The story of the dog killing was revealed in an excerpt from her new book, titled No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, which will be released May 7.

“As I explained in the book, it wasn’t easy. But often the easy way is not the right way.’

Noem writes in the new book about the dog she shot 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.’

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.”

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’

Noem is currently in ninth place, with the same odds as independent candidate for president and former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“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.”

She shot Cricket in the family’s gravel pit.

The revelation has proven unpopular and damaging to her reputation across the board, as Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana noted.

‘Bipartisan outrage! I was just amazed that for once there was no Blue America, no Red America, just one America,” Cassidy said.

‘That’s just as crazy. Why would you do that to a puppy? It’s just crazy,” he said.