Congresswoman Nancy Mace Says She’s Suing American Airlines Over Her Charleston Airport Meltdown

Repubican Congresswoman Nancy Mace is running for governor of South Carolina. Last Thursday morning she didn’t help her cause, reportledy cursing loudly and “making derogatory comments” towards airport security. And she keeps extending the news cycle, now saying she plans to sue American Airlines on the theory that they’re fabricating records about her behavior to manufacture this story.

  • An escort detail was supposed to meet her curbside at the airport and take her through security, but there was a mixup over what car they were looking for.

  • So went inside on her own, headed straight for Known Crewmember security, and “began loudly cursing and making derogatory comments to us and about the department,” including telling the officers “we were ‘f—ing incompetent’ and ‘this is no way to treat a f—ing U.S. Representative.’”

    As she was escorted to her gate, she continued her profanity‑laden tirade. One officer logged: “The entire walk to gate B‑8 she was cursing and complaining and often doing the same into her phone.”

Mace told officers that they’d never mistreat Senator Tim Scott this way (because the black guy always gets better treatment from police). He says he wants no part of this!

An American Airlines gat agent told the officers he was “in disbelief regarding her behavior” and that a U.S. Representative should not be acting the way she was. Now American is getting sued?

If you’re running for governor of a southern state, the last thing you want to do is extend the story about your mistreatment of law enforcement. And if you’re a politician so given to tirades that you lost your entire staff in under a year, the last thing you want is to initiate proceedings that open you up to discovery. Meanwhile she wants the airport CEO fired, when public demands like that don’t make the kind of friends you need to succeed in your run.

Whatever you think of Congresswoman Mace, she is getting very bad advice.

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Comments

  1. Good luck with that. Unless she’s doing this per se, I bet her attorney(s) got a nice, juicy retainer, so that when this inevitably fails, at least they get paid.

  2. S. Carolina Republican here. In MAGA-speak Nancy Mace is a total low IQ loser. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

  3. @David S — Thank you for your ‘Thank you for your attention to this matter.’

    Also, “please clap…” jeb!

  4. Her political career is likely over. If she was a liberal, she’d earn extra points for abusing law enforcement or threatening to murder children. Conservative voters do not appreciate poor behavior towards law enforcement

  5. These people have no shame. They are literally caught on film acting a fool. When caught, their response is to turn around and sue, claiming it was your fault. There is no end to the depths to which they will sink to get their way…everyone else be damned. I don’t care if you a D or an R, this kind of behavior is disgusting.

  6. My favorite Nancy Mace moment was when she spoke at a prayer breakfast and explained that she got there late because her boyfriend convinced her to jump back into bed to finish/continue doing something they started the night before.

    What a classy broad.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

  7. Wow. She should be promoted to a cabinet-level job, like Secretary of Homeand Security. Then she can fire all those bad TSA people for Violating her Authoritah!

  8. yeah, that sounds like a republican alright..
    the actions were hers, the words came out of her mouth, and the video doesn’t lie… but it’s always someone else’s fault and the target has deep pockets to pick..

  9. Just proves that trash comes in all skin colours. This shade is called “Karen White”.

  10. I think we can all agree that this is poor behavior. I’m not sure why she thinks SHE needs special handling but that reaction is awful.

  11. She’s taking a page from the playbook of the Dear Leader.

    Sue someone for absolutely nothing while you’re in power.

    They’ll settle…if they know what’s good for them.

    The current cabal running the WH and Congress is like a mob oberation. Has Palermo become the de facto national capital?

  12. @ David P…what are you talking about?

    She is just like your Dear Leader. This is the kind of lunacy and classlessness that Republicans adore and vote for.

    Our side has standards. Yours doesn’t.

    By the way, I don’t recall any videos put out by the Biden or Obama White House where they showed the President flying a jet and dumping feces on people exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

  13. I’m from SC (live in Charlotte now but downsizing in a few weeks to a home back over the line so will be voting in SC again). This is embarrassing. Doesn’t begin to compare with our other prominent female Republican (Nikki Hailey) who is a good politician and would never pull a stunt like this.

    Oh yeah Nancy I’ll educate you on lawsuits. You are a public figure so not only would you have to prove what they reported was inaccurate but also done maliciously to harm you. That is a high bar to clear. Best to let it go.

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