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 Comedy CentralThere have been few stories throughout the 2024 presidential campaign that have gathered as much attention as Cricket-Gate, in which vice presidential hopeful Kristi Noem casually confessed in her new book that she once purposely shot and killed her fourteen-month-old dog, Cricket. It's the sort of thing that, for The Daily Show correspondent and co-host Jordan Klepper, raises more questions than answers.
"I'm not a political expert, but I think if I had to give a politician advice, I would say the top thing is to not shoot your puppy," he said. "The second thing would be to not write about shooting your puppy."
Klepper tried to give the South Dakota governor the benefit of the doubt, but unfortunately Noem's follow-up admission in her book—where she claims that she also murdered her billy goat—didn't do her any favors either. An astonished Klepper asked, "What did the goat do?" It sounds like she saw it and was like, ‘well, I can't leave any witnesses.'"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesDonald Trump was fined $1,000 and was once against held in contempt of court Monday, this time for violating a gag order. That marked the 10th time the ex-president has been held in contempt, inching Judge Juan Merchan closer to throwing him behind bars, he warned.
Merchan asserted that he doesn't want to have Trump imprisoned ahead of his trial's completion, but said the court-imposed fines—totaling a mere $10,000—have done little to deter the billionaire businessman-turned-politician from behaving during his hush-money trial.
If Trump were to be thrown in the clink, he'd be the first U.S. president to spend time behind bars. However, he'd be far from the first world leader to find himself imprisoned. Below are some notable politicians to be jailed and how they ended up there.
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