Hillary Clinton wades in on Trump VP candidate Kristi Noem’s shocking confession about shooting her dog

Hillary Clinton has become the latest figure to troll South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem over her shocking admission that she executed her dog because it was “untrainable”.

On Monday morning, the former secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate reshared a 2021 post on X reading: “Don’t vote for anyone you wouldn’t trust with your dog.”

“Still true,” Ms Clinton wrote alongside the post.

Ms Noem – one of the candidates believed to be in the running to be Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick – has come under fire in recent days over an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir where she admits to shooting her dog Cricket dead.

In the extract, obtained by The Guardian, Ms Noem describes the 14-month-old do as “untrainable” and “less than worthless”.

She writes that she went on a pheasant hunting trip with other hunting dogs with the intention of teaching the puppy how to behave.

However, she says Cricket went “out of her mind with excitement” and scared off the birds.

Despite Ms Noem’s attempts to control Cricket with an electronic collar, the animal later attacked a group of chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another,” she writes.

Cricket also later attempted to bite the governor herself, she adds.

“I hated that dog,” Ms Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proven herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.

“At that moment… I realised I had to put her down,” she writes.

Ms Noem describes how she then took out her gun and took the dog to a gravel pit on her property to be executed.

“It was not a pleasant job but it had to be done,” she writes.

In the memoir, she also