Mitt Romney slams Barack Obama for eating dog meat after Kristi Noem shot her puppy… while insisting he ‘loved’ the dog he tied to the roof of the car

Republican Senator Mitt Romney was questioned Tuesday about South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s dog killing scandal and used his answer to settle a score with his ex-political rival, former President Barack Obama.

Romney was politically dragged when he ran for president in 2008 and 2012 because in 1983 he strapped a carrier to the car roof and traveled 12 hours to Canada with Seamus, the Irish setter, tucked inside.

The dog protested because he had diarrhea in his crate – and the Americans objected by not electing Romney and instead re-electing Democrat Obama.

With a new dog-related political scandal brewing, the Capitol Hill press corps swarmed Romney this week after Noem, a possible VP pick for former President Donald Trump, exposed himself as a dog killer.

‘I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog ​​and my dog ​​loved me,” Romney told reporters. according to Mediaiet.

Obama admitted that he ate dog meat as a child during the years he and his mother lived in Indonesia.

He made light of his dog scandal at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?” he asked, borrowing Sarah Palin’s famous line.

“A pit bull is wonderful,” Obama said.

Noem’s scandal began then the Guardian received an early copy of her new book, No Turning Back: The Truth About What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forwardand reported shooting her 14-month-old wire-haired pointer and a male goat.

The governor said she wanted to show she is capable of dealing with whatever is “difficult, messy and ugly.”

But critics, including Romney, said the dog’s death was mostly unnecessary.

“I can’t imagine any circumstances that would cause someone to take their dog to a gravel pit, especially if it was an 11-month-old dog, and shoot it,” the Utah senator added, giving the age of Cricket at the time of the dog’s gruesome death.

“Other people may have a different point of view,” Romney suggested.

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.’

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.”

Cricket “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.