"The passage where you talked about killing a dog that was 14 months old... I train dogs, alright? And you are a farmer. You should know better. You should know that if you're going out to a hunting lodge and you're putting pheasants out and you're putting dogs out, you don't take a puppy out there. A 14-month-old dog is basically a teenager in dog years."
"You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time and training, and then you have the audacity to say it's a leadership lesson about tough choices!"
"We're an exceptional nation. And one of the reasons we're exceptional is we expect exceptional leadership. And you've demonstrated anything but that in the time that I've seen you responding to the emergency in North Carolina and across the Southeast."
During a Senate Appropriations hearing, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about passages in her book describing how she killed a young dog and a goat. Tillis, who trains dogs and farms, argued that Noem should have known better, noting that a 14-month-old dog is essentially a teenager requiring proper training before hunting activities. He criticized her for killing the dog due to insufficient investment in training, then presenting it as a leadership lesson about tough choices. Tillis also pointed out her failure to castrate the misbehaving goat. He drew a parallel between her poor judgment with animals and her leadership failures at DHS, particularly regarding emergency response in North Carolina and the Southeast, emphasizing that exceptional nations require exceptional leadership.
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