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Farmer Boss on Noem’s Puppy-Killing Excuse: That’s Cow Dung!

‘AN EMBARRASSMENT’

Sorry, Kristi, but farmers don’t regularly shoot 14-month-old dogs for misbehavior.

Pilar Melendez
Pilar Melendez 

Senior National Reporter

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Photo illustration of Kristi Noem’s face on the woman’s body of the Grant Wood painting, American Gothic, with the man’s eyebrow raised and giving her side-eye.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Grant Wood
Pilar Melendez

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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