Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem implied that President Joe Biden’s canine, Commander, ought to meet the identical sick destiny as her personal 14-month-old canine Cricket, who she shot as a result of its aggressive conduct, as she revealed in her upcoming memoir.

“Joe Biden’s canine has attacked 24 Secret Service folks. So how many individuals is sufficient folks to be attacked and dangerously harm earlier than you decide on a canine?” Noem stated Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “That is the query that the president must be held accountable to.”

The Biden administration introduced in October that Commander had been relocated off White Home grounds after numerous incidents the place he had bitten or in any other case attacked U.S. Secret Service brokers.

Noem’s Sunday remark comes as she faces appreciable blowback from each Democrats and Republicans for anecdotes in her upcoming memoir about selections to personally put down numerous household livestock, together with Cricket and an unnamed goat.

As she vies to change into Donald Trump’s vice presidential decide, some, together with former Home Speaker Newt Gingrich, have posited that the controversial memoir snippets have tanked her probabilities.

Within the days since Noem’s memoir anecdotes went public, the South Dakota governor has been doing harm management to avoid wasting her VP bid.

On Sunday, Noem doubled down on her protection to place down Cricket, claiming that the canine had been attacking her youngsters and that the backlash she has obtained is politically motivated.

“This has been a narrative that my political opponents have tried to make use of in opposition to me for years,” Noem stated. “They’re doing the identical factor to me, that they do to Donald Trump every single day.”