Biden’s Dog – Mother Jones

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Contemporary off the heels of attracting bipartisan repulsion over the admission that she killed her personal canine, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Sunday prompt that President Joe Biden’s canine, Commander, ought to additionally be killed.

“Joe Biden’s canine has attacked 24 Secret Service individuals,” Noem informed CBS’s Face the Nation. “So how many individuals is sufficient individuals to be attacked and dangerously damage earlier than you decide on a canine and what to do with it?” (Commander has since been faraway from the White Home and relocated to an undisclosed location after biting a number of Secret Service brokers.)

The brand new remarks come as Noem, broadly thought of a possible operating mate for Donald Trump, continues to draw outrage over a forthcoming memoir that options the governor recounting in graphic element an incident the place she killed her 14-month-old canine, Cricket. (“I hated that canine,” she writes, in response to the Guardian, which first obtained a replica of No Going Again: The Fact on What’s Improper with Politics and How We Transfer America Ahead.) On Sunday, CBS confronted Noem about one other passage that includes Noem claiming that making “certain Joe Biden’s canine was nowhere on the grounds” could be one of many first actions she’d take ought to she ever make it to the White Home.

MARGARET BRENNAN: In truth, on the finish of the e-book, you say the very very first thing you’d do in the event you obtained to the White Home that was totally different from Joe Biden, is you’d be certain Joe Biden’s canine was nowhere on the grounds, Commander say good day to Cricket. Are you doing this to attempt to look robust? Do you continue to assume that you’ve a shot at being a VP?

GOV. NOEM: Properly, primary, Joe Biden’s canine has attacked 24 Secret Service individuals. So how many individuals is sufficient individuals to be attacked and dangerously damage earlier than you decide on a canine? And — 

MARGARET BRENNAN: — Properly he’s not residing on the White Home anymore–  

GOV. NOEM: — That’s the query that the President must be held accountable to. 

MARGARET BRENNAN: You’re saying he must be shot?

GOV. NOEM: That what’s the president must be accountable to. What’s—what’s the quantity? And I’d say about Republicans criticizing me. These are the identical Republicans have criticized me throughout COVID. They’ve criticized me after I’ve made different selections in South Dakota to guard my state. And my state immediately is extraordinarily comfortable and thriving. We’re doing properly.

So let me repeat. At Mom Jones, we respect a large spectrum of opinions relating to canine tradition. However killing your canine after which publicly wishing different individuals’s canine lifeless, all whereas gunning to be Donald Trump’s VP, looks as if a dangerous technique.