South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) recalled in her controversial, just-released memoir how a “mistake” in 2016 led her to come very close to causing a massive highway tragedy.
In excerpts from her memoir, “No Going Back,” which were published by The Daily Beast on Thursday, Noem admitted that she once “made the mistake” of not personally checking the hitch between the pickup truck and the flatbed trailer she was going to drive. . .
The then-congresswoman was driving 70 miles per hour on a busy eight-lane interstate outside Nashville with her daughter Kass when “we hit a pothole and the trailer came unhitched.”
“The heavy hitch slammed into the asphalt, sparks flew everywhere and the back of the truck spun almost out of control!” she wrote, according to The Daily Beast.
Noem stopped the vehicle, according to the excerpts.
Then, mother and daughter simply watched “as thousands of people ran by in their vehicles, oblivious to the destruction we had all just avoided,” she said.
“God, Kass, we could have killed so many people,” Noem remembers telling her daughter. “I know. Thank God we didn’t,” Kass allegedly responded.
Noem has sparked anger over other elements of her book, such as her admission that she had killed one of her dogs and a questionable anecdote about staring down North Korean despot Kim Jong Un.
