One of Donald Trump’s prime vice-presidential prospects has revealed she killed a household canine on a searching journey.
In a forthcoming memoir, Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor, wrote how she threw Cricket, a 14-month-old feminine wirehaired pointer, right into a gravel pit and executed it with a gun after concluding the canine was “untrainable”.
Afterwards her daughter Kennedy “looked around confused” and requested her: “Where’s Cricket?”, in keeping with a e book excerpt obtained by The Guardian.
Noem cited the killing of the pet canine for example of her readiness to tackle disagreeable duties within the polarised world of US politics in her e book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.
The 52-year-old wrote that she