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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Kristi Noem calls dog shooting report ‘fake news’ but insists on need to kill animal

Kristi Noem
Noem said media reports of her killing animals were ‘fake news’ before confirming that she killed Cricket the wirehaired pointer with a shotgun. Photograph: Jack Dura/AP

Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota whose chance of being Donald Trump’s presidential running mate was widely deemed over after she published a description of shooting dead a dog and a goat, claimed reports of the story were “fake news” but also that the dog in question, Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, was “extremely dangerous” and deserved her fate.

“You know how the fake news works,” Noem told Fox News. “They leave out some or most of the facts of a story, they put the worst spin on it. And that’s what’s happened in this case.

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