SC’s Mace says Wilson set up ‘political hit job.’ He calls her a ‘spoiled brat’
The latest spat between U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson played out on CNN with one governor hopeful being described as a brat and the other being accused of orchestrating a political hit job.
Mace on Tuesday was a guest on Kaitlan Collins’ show The Source where she answered questions about the latest police reports from her Oct. 30 tirade at the Charleston International Airport.
A Charleston Airport Police report released Monday said the police took blame for a miscommunication that led to Mace’s tirade, but also pointed the finger at the congresswoman for making the incident into a spectacle. Police say she used curse words and described law enforcement as idiots.
Mace denied calling law enforcement at the airport idiots.
The police report of the internal investigation also shared how a TSA supervisor told police Mace was rude and disrespectful and declared she wouldn’t go through the TSA line before going to the gate area.
Mace said the publicity of the incident was a political hit job orchestrated by Wilson, as they both compete for the Republican nomination for governor. She also again said the report was falsified.
“It was effective; it was a very effective political hit job. But that’s all that it was,” Mace said.
She pointed to how Wilson’s campaign had a press release and social media post shortly after reports were released.
“It was all boom, boom, boom,” Mace said while snapping her fingers.
Collins on Wednesday had Wilson on her show where he said it is a “categorical lie” to say he orchestrated the report. He pointed out that Mace was late to the airport, showed up at the wrong location.
“I did not make her cuss out the men and women at the TSA and the security checkpoint. I did not make her tweet this about this 100 times in the days that followed,” Wilson said. “For me to have been able to have that kind of control over her (is) what you would have to believe in order for this to have actually been true.”
Wilson went onto criticize Mace’s treatment of law enforcement at the airport.
“This basically reminds me of a spoiled brat, an entitled spoiled brat,” Wilson said.
Mace fired back Thursday morning accusing Wilson of flying up to Washington just do the interview. Wilson has been in Washington, D.C. this week for conferences and meetings with other attorneys general and law enforcement, his campaign and the attorney general’s office said.
The primary election for South Carolina governor is June 9, with a runoff on June 23 if no candidate receives a majority of the vote.
