Noem Defends Killing Dog, Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Be Shot

MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, so that you don’t agree with Mr. Trump’s assertion there. I wish to ask you once more concerning the guide. I- I do know you recognize, this query is coming, as a result of there’s been such an infinite backlash about your revelation that you simply shot and killed a Wirehair Pointer or named Cricket, who was 14 months outdated. You say within the guide, she got here from one other household that struggled along with her aggression, you’d been coaching her to hunt, she bought too excited, ruined the hunt, after which attacked and killed some chickens. I ponder when you’ve got regrets about sharing this story.

NOEM: You know, Margaret, this guide is full of susceptible, painful moments in my life, full of occasions the place I’ve made very tough choices. The purpose that this story is within the guide as a result of folks want to grasp who I’m and a few of these tough choices. This was a harmful animal that was killing livestock and attacking folks. And- and I had little youngsters on the time, our operation had many children working round and folks in interplay with the general public. And I made a tough alternative. I feel you’re a mom too. And you’ve gotten little kiddos, would you make a alternative between your youngsters or a harmful animal? And I feel I’d ask all people within the nation to place themselves in that state of affairs. Because that’s what I confronted and I discuss it as a result of what I’m uninterested in on this nation is politicians who fake to be one thing that they’re not. That they aren’t keen to have the arduous conversations and have a look at the previous and the robust choices that they’ve made. I’m- what I discuss within the guide extensively when persons are in a position to get it on Tuesday is to see the entire story and the reality, not the spin that the media has placed on this story. The media has put some or removed- eliminated many of the info and and what the explanation that is in there may be as a result of I need folks to know that I don’t ask anyone else to tackle my obligations. I understood my duty. And as a mother, I made a alternative between defending my youngsters, and defending them from a harmful animal that was killing livestock and attacking folks. And that’s a call that I made–

BRENNAN:  — Well, I-I described- I described- I feel precisely the way you wrote it up within the guide. You didn’t say the canine attacked folks, you mentioned it had tried to chunk you. And I simply surprise why you concluded {that a} younger canine was untrainable and never simply take it to a shelter?

NOEM: This canine was a- properly, this canine was a working canine. And it had come from a household that already had points with this canine. And I had put months and months of coaching into this canine. This canine had gone to different trainers as properly. So -so all of that’s the info of the story. And all of that exhibits that while you put somebody able the place they need to decide, and so they wish to shield their household, and shield youngsters and different folks from getting attacked from an animal that has attacked others and killed livestock, that’s the selection I remodeled 20 years in the past. And that I didn’t ask anyone else to take- take that duty for me, that I needed to make that call myself.

BRENNAN:  Because you place it in part of a chapter known as “Bad Day to Be a Goat.” And then after you shot the canine, you quote “realized another unpleasant job needed to be done walking back up to the yard, I spotted our billy goat.” You mentioned he smelled and would chase children. So you took him to the gravel pit and shot him twice. How- how do you justify that? How was the goat a menace? And I’m asking you this as a result of it looks as if you’re celebrating the killing of the animals.

NOEM: Not in any respect. This has been a narrative that my political opponents have tried to make use of towards me for years. It’s well-known in South Dakota, and it has been to different folks. And I need the reality to be on the market and to grasp that- that these animals have been attacking my youngsters, that- that we dwell on a farm and ranch and the robust choices are made many occasions. And it is- it’s to guard folks. And I’ll let you know the- the extremism of different folks and the way they’ve attacked me politically, I perceive it. They’re doing the identical factor to me, that they do to Donald Trump day by day, day by day. The fixed assaults and coming after- throughout COVID, I used to be attacked at evening after evening for months after month for the selections that I made. In reality, you and lots of different journalists attacked me each single day on TV for months for the selections that I made in South Dakota, for my folks to guard their freedoms–

BRENNAN:  — I feel we had a really, I feel we had a particularly reasonable interview–

NOEM: So-so I’m used to being attacked–

BRENNAN: When you joined us ma’am at the moment and I thanked you for answering questions on it. But on the- on this level, although, as a result of you’ve gotten been rumored to be a possible vice-presidential candidate, as you recognize. And former House Speaker Newt Gingrich mentioned “killing the dog and then writing about it ended any possibility of her being picked as VP.” You speak a number of occasions about it. In reality, on the finish of the guide, you say the very very first thing you’d do in the event you bought to the White House that was completely different from Joe Biden, is you’d be sure 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 suppose that you’ve a shot at being a VP?

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

BRENNAN: — Well he’s not residing on the White House anymore–

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

BRENNAN: — You’re saying he needs to be shot?–

NOEM: — That what’s the president needs to be accountable to. What is- 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 choices in South Dakota to guard my state. And my state as we speak is extraordinarily completely happy and thriving. We’re doing properly. We’ve bought hundreds of individuals transferring to our state, as a result of they love the alternatives which are right here and the companies which have come and the way we’ve gotten to be a state that has one of many lowest unemployment charges within the nation. Everybody has a chance for increased wages. We’ve bought revenues and reserves, we paid off our debt. We’ve bought a triple A credit standing, we’ve bought a totally funded pension system. We have been the primary state within the nation to–

BRENNAN: — so that you’re not going to retract the guide? —

NOEM: — Bring a invoice to stop China–

BRENNAN: — Governor–

NOEM: — I- this guide is a robust guide. It’s an sincere guide. It’s an sincere guide about- blueprint for America of what residents can do right here to take their nation again. And I’m so pleased with this guide and- and what it would deliver to folks. I hope that they’ll purchase it they’ll discover loads of truthful tales and we speak so much about what we are able to use for example from Donald Trump on how he has continued to be an actual particular person, been real and been sincere to folks and that–

BRENNAN: — But if you need to retract it, or components of it–

NOEM: — And that what bothers me most about politicians is after they’re faux. I’m not retracting something. I’m not retracting something. No this guide–

BRENNAN: Alright, Governor thanks for taking the questions and becoming a member of us as we speak. Face the Nation might be again in a minute, stick with us.