Kristi Noem tries and fails to excuse her puppy-killing ways [Video]

It’s been a few days since the news broke that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem had released a book that included the harrowing tale of the time she shot her dog, Cricket, as well as a goat after Cricket angered her.

Noem presented the story as one of her own hardship and strength, as the tale of her willingness to handle difficult situations. No one else, however, saw it that way. The public reaction has been overwhelmingly one of disgust (unsurprisingly to everyone except perhaps Noem herself.)

Noem initially defended herself on social media by arguing that shooting pets in the head is just a normal part of farm work. Now she is arguing again in a longer post, in which she implies that anyone upset is just holding a grudge too long (after all, she says, the shooting was 20 years ago) and demands people acknowledge that this was …