GOP firebrand Nancy Mace has posted on-line over 100 instances defending her expletive-filled rant at airport safety | EUROtoday

MAGA lawmaker Nancy Mace has posted on-line greater than 100 instances in protection of her latest expletive-filled rant directed at safety at South Carolina’s Charleston Airport.

Using each her private {and professional} profiles, the South Carolina congresswoman wrote a flurry of scathing messages attacking employees and calling for the airport’s CEO, Elliott Summey. The Independent counted 110 posts and reposts in whole as of Tuesday night.

It comes following the incident on Thursday, as Mace arrived at Charleston International Airport for a flight, in accordance with a report from the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department.

The congresswoman was allegedly anticipating a police escort, however there was reportedly confusion over her automobile and arrival. “During the entire escort, Rap. Mace was talking loudly using profanity at times for others to hear,” the report reads.

In her posts on X and subsequent TV interviews, Mace doubled down a number of instances on her reactions, together with claims she known as employees members “f****** incompetent.” She known as her therapy a “disgrace” and claimed that the incident stories had been “demonstrably false.”

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She additionally stated she had submitted a request through the state Freedom of Information Act for surveillance footage of the incident to make sure “full transparency.”

“I will not stand for the LIES. Not from the airport. Not from my opponents. Not from LAZY, INCOMPETENT bureaucrats who think stonewalling and deception are in their job description.”

However, Mace invoked the ire of Republican state senator Tim Scott after allegedly telling officers that they’d by no means deal with the senator in the identical method.

“For reasons that are unclear, Rep. Nancy Mace invoked my name during and in the aftermath of her situation at the Charleston International Airport,” Scott wrote in a Facebook publish Tuesday, occurring to say that each interplay he has had on the airport “without exception – has been positive.”

In response toThe Independent request for touch upon the size of her posts, Mace added: “If exposing corruption makes people uncomfortable, then good. The full video proves the airport and American Airlines lied. We won’t stop posting on social media until things change. Heads need to roll and people need to be fired for this garbage.

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“Elliott Summey, airport security, the American Airlines gate agent, and anyone else involved in fabricating documents must resign immediately and retract their lies.”

Mace was set to reach on the airport in a white BMW, in accordance with the incident report, and officers had began ready for her close to the entrance curb shortly after 6 a.m., however didn’t see her for a number of minutes.

The officers had been then knowledgeable shortly earlier than 7 a.m. that Mace was at a TSA checkpoint for the Known Crewmember program. When they discovered her, she was “very irate,” in accordance with the report.

One of the officers who was escorting Mace wrote that she “repeatedly stated we were ‘F****** incompetent,’ and ‘this is no way to treat a f****** U.S. Representative.’”

Mace stood at her gate “for several minutes with her continuing tirade” earlier than boarding the flight, the officer wrote. An American Airlines gate agent then “stated he was in disbelief regarding her behavior” and “implied that a U.S. Representative should not be acting the way she was,” in accordance with the officer.

As properly as Mace, The Independent has contacted the Charleston International Airport and TSA once more for remark.