Trump VP hopeful Kristi Noem stands by claims Joe Biden's aggressive dog Commander should be put down like she did with her 'dangerous' puppy: 'Say hello to Cricket'

Gov. Kristi Noem suggested President Joe Biden's dog Commander should be put down because of his aggressive behavior in another stunning defense of shooting dead her 14-month-old puppy.

The South Dakota Republican said she told the story about killing her farm dog Cricket because 'people need to understand who I am.'

At the end of her book where she told the story about shooting and killing the dog, Noem suggested that Biden's German Shepherd Commander should be put down, writing the dog should 'say hello to Cricket.'

She doubled-down on Sunday, telling CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan that she does think it would be best to put down the president's dog, who was removed from the White House complex after a series of attacks.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem doubled down on suggesting President Joe Biden's dog Commander should be put down

Biden's German Shepard Commander was removed from the White House complex after multiple reports of biting incidents 

'Joe Biden's dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,' Noem said. 'So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog.'

She added: 'That's the question that the President should be held accountable to.'

Several reports emerged about how Commander exhibited aggressive behavior toward staff and specifically posed safety issues and bite risks for Secret Service agents.

She dodged Brennan's question, however, on whether she felt that Commander ' should be shot.'

Noem said that she took care of her 'untrainable' dog the correct way by taking Cricket to a gravel pit and shooting her after aggressive behaviors like killing neighbor's chickens and trying to bite her.

Critics claim that Noem, who shot her dog while her kids were at school, could have rehomed the dog or surrendered to a shelter that may have been better equipped to train the animal.

Noem detailed in her upcoming book a story about shooting and killing her 'dangerous' 14-month-old farm puppy Cricket  (not pictured)

Noem's book No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward hits shelves on May 7. The release follows a few weeks of criticism after an excerpt was published in The Guardian where the governor told a two-decade old story about killing her family's farm dog.

'The reason that this story is in the book — because people need to understand who I am and some of those difficult decisions,' Noem told Brennan on Sunday when explaining why she included the recounting of the decision to kill Cricket.

Noem's chances of being selected as Donald Trump's vice president also severely decreased after the story came out.