GOP Sen. Tillis Compares Kristi Noem’s DHS Leadership to Her Killing Her Dog

Noem was criticized by Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, with Tillis bringing up the controversial dog story from the secretary’s 2024 book to make his point:

“Secretary, I read your book last week. And honestly, some parts of it impressed me, but some of it distresses me, and I’ll give you a good example of one that does — the passage where you talk about killing a dog that was 14 months old,” the North Carolina senator began.

In her book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, Noem proudly recounted the 20-year-old story of how she shot her young female wirehaired pointer after she ruined a pheasant hunt and attacked a neighbor’s chickens. 


The dog, Cricket, sullied the hunt by going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life,” Noem wrote. After the botched hunt, Noem was stopping by a neighbor’s house when Cricket jumped out of the truck and ran, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.” 

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