The North Carolina midterm primaries were held yesterday, and aside from the explosive news of far-right Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn losing his seat, there was another big story from the tar heel state.
After Sandy Smith locked up the Republican primary in North Carolina's first district, all anyone could talk about was a bonkers tweet from last week in which she insisted she never ran over anyone with her car or hit them with a frying pan. She promises!
In the bizarre tweet--which is for whatever reason still live on Smith's feed--she denies extremely specific allegations about two attempts to injure her ex-husband in the aforementioned manners.
See the tweet below.
I never ran over anyone with a car and I never hit anyone in the head with a frying pan. If I did that don't you think I would be in jail? All of these #FakeNews allegations have been dismissed by a judge and the people peddling these lies will PAY when I take them to court.(1/2)— Sandy Smith NC (@Sandy Smith NC) 1652298118
Smith, an acolyte of former Republican President Donald Trump, addressed the allegations in a tweet that could have been written by Trump himself.
She wrote:
"I never ran over anyone with a car and I never hit anyone in the head with a frying pan."
"If I did that don't you think I would be in jail?"
"All of these #FakeNews allegations have been dismissed by a judge and the people peddling these lies will PAY when I take them to court."
She then went on to invoke one of Trump's favorite images, "the swamp"--meaning Washington, D.C.--before threatening to bring a frying pan to Congress.
The swamp desperately DOES NOT WANT SANDY SMITH. I won't play their corrupt game.\n\nI am bringing a frying pan to DC, though. (2/2)— Sandy Smith NC (@Sandy Smith NC) 1652298118
The claims come from opposition research by one of Smith's opponents, which includes allegations of domestic violence from her two ex-husbands.
One claimed that Smith tried to hit him with a frying pan and tried to run him over with her car. During Smith's marriage to her second husband, both were arrested for domestic violence, though the charges were eventually dropped.
Both divorces have been described as contentious.
Smith's tweet drew little notice until she won her primary, but now it seems to be all the internet can talk about--and the Twitter response has been hilarious.
wow okay you just lost my votehttps://twitter.com/SandySmithNC/status/1524474916535513095\u00a0\u2026— Mr. Chau (@Mr. Chau) 1652902592
Well I didn\u2019t think you did but now I do. I never murderer anyone with an ice pick but I don\u2019t go around bragging about it.— Abolish I.C.E. (@Abolish I.C.E.) 1652885157
https://twitter.com/sandysmithnc/status/1524474916535513095\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/E9t5pKFxeH— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@kilgore trout, death to putiner) 1652886184
my 'never hit anyone in the head with a frying pan' shirt is getting a lot of questions already answered by my shirt— helle woods (@helle woods) 1652885987
I've never driven my car into a painting of a tunnel— Hapsburg Jaw (@Hapsburg Jaw) 1652885934
I never hit anyone in the head with a frying pan.\n\nIt was a skillet.— Emma Twilbertson (@Emma Twilbertson) 1652887179
whoapic.twitter.com/gbly7nHbFm— Daffy "Mal" Yinkleyankle (@Daffy "Mal" Yinkleyankle) 1652887425
Hi, I never hit anyone in the head with a frying pan, vote for me— svUntamed \ud83c\udf3b \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@svUntamed \ud83c\udf3b \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1652453706
Qawthorn may be gone, but another Qrazy grew next to the tree he punched #VoteBlueToSaveAmericahttps://twitter.com/SandySmithNC/status/1524474916535513095\u00a0\u2026— Tara Dublin \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udf3b (@Tara Dublin \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udf3b) 1652907704
I always hop on the old https://Twitter.com\u00a0 and list all the crimes I haven't committed recently.\nI haven't clubbed a baby seal\nI haven't tagged any bus stops\nI haven't torn the tags off pillows I did not purchase\nSmith's tweet is totally normal and really not suspicioushttps://twitter.com/SandySmithNC/status/1524474916535513095\u00a0\u2026— jill kent (@jill kent) 1652901976
Smith will now face Democratic opponent Donald Davis in November's general election. She lost the same race in 2020.
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