Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) spoke out Tuesday a few police report that accused her of throwing a tantrum and occurring a tirade towards regulation enforcement officers on the Charleston Worldwide Airport in October.
“Well, part of the report was actually falsified,” Mace stated on CNN’s “The Supply” to host Kaitlan Collins.
Mace, one of many main contenders for governor of South Carolina, stated the newly launched footage of the incident doesn’t define the total story and solely exhibits her “asking TSA agents for help.” She additionally repeatedly identified that the clip “conveniently” has “no audio that goes with it.”
Mace then took the time to declare her assist for regulation enforcement.
“I back the blue, I back our police, I back our security. In my district in South Carolina, I’ve gotten millions of dollars for local law enforcement to support them in their efforts to keep our community safe,” she stated. “But what’s not OK is… falsifying incident reports.”
Collins replied, urgent Mace in regards to the report’s contents.
“You just said you ‘back the blue.’ The police quote you in this report as you calling them ‘fucking idiots’ and ‘fucking incompetent’ while stating that you’re a ‘fucking representative’ and telling a TSA supervisor, ‘I’m sick of your shit. I’m tired of having to wait. I should not have to wait. You guys are always fucking late and this is fucking ridiculous.’ Are you saying you didn’t say those things?”
Mace doubled down, telling Collins, “Well, you’re quoting a document that was, in part, falsified. They say a lot of things, and the video doesn’t show that. There’s no audio.”
Collins continued, asking Mace, “You’re saying the police officers are lying?”
“No, I’m saying that is, in part, false. … That is a falsified document. There are things in there — most of what’s in there that’s quoted is not true,” the congresswoman replied.
Mace later tried to clarify the circumstances surrounding the incident.
“[The airport law enforcement] were not there. They did not show up. I was very frustrated with the situation because of the number of death threats that I receive, and I expressed that frustration,” Mace continued. “But in no way, shape or form, did I call any of them idiots.”
She added, “I didn’t even know that was in the report until you told me just now. I never said — I would never, I have never called someone an idiot. That is, that is shocking to me.”
Later within the interview, Mace argued that President Donald Trump additionally makes use of vulgar language “frequently” and known as the airport incident a “political hit job.”
“I do express my frustration. I do take responsibility for my words. I always have. But the idea that I would call somebody an idiot, I have never done that in my life,” she added.
Following the interview, Mace walked again a few of her remarks in an X put up.
“I misspoke on CNN tonight. I have called one person an idiot before,” she wrote alongside a 2024 put up the place she known as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) “Iran’s useful idiot.”
Watch Mace’s CNN look under.
