White House says it’s disturbing that Kristi Noem thinks Biden’s dog should be shot and killed
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The White House on Monday had a terse message for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who suggested one of President Joe Biden’s pets should suffer the same fate as the dog she admitted shooting to death.
The White House on Monday had a terse message for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who suggested one of President Joe Biden’s pets should suffer the same fate as the dog she admitted shooting to death. “We learned last week, obviously like all of you, in her book that she killed her puppy. You heard me say that was very, very sad. We find her comments from yesterday disturbing. We find them absurd,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday. She continued, “This is a country that loves dogs. And you have a leader talking about putting dogs down – killing them. And that’s a disturbing statement to say.” Noem, Jean-Pierre advised, “should probably should stop digging herself in a hole.” In a forthcoming memoir, Noem boasted about killing her dog, Cricket, in a gravel pit after she said the dog was “untrainable.” Noem’s admission has caused days’ worth of bipartisan uproar toward the governor, who was once considered to be vying to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate in the coming election. In the book, and in media appearances since the Cricket controversy began, Noem suggested Biden’s dog, Commander, should also die.
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