Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, already beneath fireplace for killing her household’s 14-month-old canine and boasting about it, on Sunday took purpose at one other household’s pet: Commander, President Biden’s bite-prone German shepherd.
Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Ms. Noem, a Republican, advised that Commander, who was banished from the White House final fall after bloodying quite a few Secret Service brokers, also needs to have been put down.
“Joe Biden’s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,” she advised her interviewer, Margaret Brennan. “So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog?”
Commander was despatched to an undisclosed location after the Secret Service recorded 24 biting episodes involving him between October 2022 and July 2023, about half of which required medical consideration.
Ms. Noem’s opinion of the right approach to have dealt with him emerged in the course of the publicity ramp-up to the discharge of her memoir, “No Going Back,” which is to be printed on Tuesday.
The South Dakota governor, who had been extensively seen as a contender to be former President Donald J. Trump’s operating mate, wrote within the e book a couple of feminine wire-haired pointer named Cricket that she had hoped to make use of to hunt pheasant on her ranch. She mentioned that the canine proved “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless” as a looking canine — so she shot her in a gravel pit.
“I hated that dog,” Ms. Noem wrote.
She additionally alluded to Commander in elaborating on her resolution to shoot Cricket: “A dog who bites is dangerous and unpredictable (are you listening, Joe Biden?) — especially if you are running a business where people interact with your dogs,” she wrote.
The White House didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In the CBS interview, Ms. Noem sought to defend the killing of Cricket — and a goat she additionally shot the identical day — as “a choice I made over 20 years ago” to “protect people.”
But in her e book, she additionally nodded to the concept that Cricket could also be in a greater place, or maybe a worse one. Imagining changing into president in 2025 and sending Mr. Biden’s canine to fulfill his maker, Ms. Noem added: “Commander, say hello to Cricket for me.”
