She obviously has a grudge against dogs. The White House was outraged Monday against Republican Governor Kristi Noem, who called for the killing of Joe Biden’s dog accused of repeated biting, a few days after revealing that she herself had killed her young dog on her farm.
The governor of South Dakota, a state in the north of the United States, estimated that Commander, the Biden couple’s German shepherd, should experience a fate identical to that reserved for her own animal, for having bitten several agents of the protection service of the president.
“We consider his comments yesterday to be disturbing, we consider them absurd,” the White House spokeswoman said at the daily press conference. “It’s a country that loves dogs, and here you have a leader who talks about killing dogs,” lamented Karine Jean-Pierre. Kristi Noem “should probably stop sinking in on her own,” the spokesperson added.
In her upcoming memoir entitled “No Going Back”, consulted by the British daily The Guardian, the Republican governor seen as a potential running mate of Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election admits to having shot and killed her dog Cricket, aged around 14 months. , because she was, according to her, “indomitable”.
“Commander, say hello to Cricket for me”
“What would I do if I were president on my first day in office in 2025? Thanks for asking the question. I happen to have a list. The first thing I would do is make sure Joe Biden’s dog isn’t anywhere on the field (Order, say hello to Cricket for me),” she reveals in her work. “But my dog, Foster, would definitely be welcome.” He comes with me to the Capitol all the time and loves everyone,” writes Kristi Noem.
On Sunday, in an interview with CBS News, the 52-year-old elected official affirmed that in the event of victory alongside Trump in the presidential election in November, she would ensure that “Commander joins Cricket”. “How many people have to be attacked and dangerously injured before you make a decision about a dog? », she asks.
The Biden couple was forced in October to put their two-year-old German shepherd on green training because of his propensity to bite. Commander had bitten members of the US president’s security service at least 24 times, according to a US secret service report relayed by CNN and the BBC in February.
Major, another German shepherd of the Bidens, also gave unwanted teething when he arrived at the White House. He had been entrusted to friends living “in a calmer environment”.
