The Kristi Noem Dog-Killing Story Is Actually Worse in Context

For the past two weeks, Kristi Noem has been trying to recover from an epic act of self-sabotage, including a 1,600-word anecdote about killing her dog, Cricket (as well as a goat), in her new memoir, No Going Back. The South Dakota governor and Trump VP prospect’s primary defense strategy has been to blame the “fake news.” While the reasons the media is at fault for talking about stuff Noem wrote in her own book keep shifting, the governor initially...