Fox News host Sean Hannity suggested on Wednesday that President Joe Biden’s family dog, Commander, should be put down in an interview with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) who wrote about executing her family puppy.
Commander was removed from the White House last year after he reportedly bit US Secret Service agents at least 24 times at the White House and other locations.
“You know, I was shocked when we learned that Joe Biden, and he has a German Shepherd, that when all is said and done, 24 Secret Service agents were bitten by a German Shepherd, by a big dog,” Hannity said in his interview with Noem.
“Initially, we heard maybe one Secret Service agent, maybe three, and then at one point we read 24,” Hannity added. “In that particular case, if somebody is biting people in large numbers like that, it’s a sad thing to do but at some point doesn’t it become the responsible thing for the safety of others that you don’t allow a dog at least around anybody else?”
Hannity’s interview with Noem comes as the Republican governor is facing backlash after she confessed to killing her 14-month-old puppy named Cricket in her upcoming book.
Noem describes how she took Cricket to a gravel pit and shot her after the dog ruined a pheasant hunt by being “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life” and attacked a local family’s chickens on their way home.
The Republican governor also described shooting and killing a “nasty and mean” male goat that smelled “disgusting, musky and rancid” and liked to chase her children.
On Wednesday, Noem accused the media of omitted key details from from the story and “put[ting] the worst spin on it.”
“This was a working dog and it was not a puppy ” she said. “It was a dog that was extremely dangerous. It had come to us from a family who found her way too aggressive. We were her second chance and the day she was put down was the day that she massacred livestock that were part of our neighbors, she attacked me, and it was a hard decision.”
