US Defense Secretary "Pistol" Pete Hegseth has his own Kristi Noem dog-killing autobiography revelation.
Hegseth, in a book he wrote last year revealed that he told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement in combat.
Noem, the current head of the US Homeland Security Department wrote in her autobiography that she had shot and killed a goat and a puppy.
She presumably expected that revelation to make herself seem tough. Instead it merely foreshadowed her monstrous behavior as a Trump cabinet member.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/hegseth-us-soldiers-iraq-rules-engagement