‘My Safety Was Put at Risk’: Nancy Mace Confirms She Berated Airport Police Over Their ‘Mediocrity’

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) confirmed that she confronted airport staff over their mediocrity during a Monday morning appearance on Fox Business Network.

At the conclusion of an interview with Cheryl Casone, Casone asked her about reports that she had berated police officers at Charleston International airport last Thursday morning, even going so far as to tell them they were “f*cking incompetent.”

“There are reports that you were involved in a heated confrontation with airport police and TSA agents at the Charleston International Airport Thursday. You posted this on X: ‘TSA wouldn’t let me through.’ So what happened?” inquired Casone.

“Well, one of the rumors last week was that I was blocked by TSA, which was not in fact true. Yes, I did have an interaction on Thursday. I want to be very clear here. We saw last year two assassination attempts on President Trump. Just a few weeks ago, we all witnessed as Charlie Kirk was assassinated right before our eyes in public. We’ve seen that Steve Scalise years ago was shot, what, four or five times. And in the political environment we have today, there’s no room for error when it comes to security,” replied Mace. “I have at this particular airport and no other. This is the only airport where I have any issues, but my children have had issues here, my employees, but we have had over two dozen security

breaches at this particular airport just 11 months into this year today. I’ve been in four airports in the last five days without incident. So yes, I did confront those who did not show up to do the job. My safety was put at risk. I have had incidences at airports. I had an incident in Chicago earlier this year where a man followed me through the airport, and the Chicago airport security was very swift to ensure that I was safe and get that individual out of there. I had another-, other incidences where someone tried to physically have an altercation with me at one of the DC airports.”

“I’m grateful to the Capitol police for stepping in, but this is a serious issue. And mediocrity when it comes to airport security, and security breaches will not be tolerated when I’m governor and not when I am in Congress for nobody,” she added.

The conversation continued:

CASONE: But so why wouldn’t they let you through? That’s the part that I’m not quite understanding here. What was the reason?MACE: Well, they did let me through. I was let through. Yeah, no, I was let through, but there is a federal process under TSA rules that require federal officials to have law enforcement personally escort us through the crew member line. So there’s a process, I waited patiently, I asked for assistance from

TSA, they were very helpful, and so we did it eventually, but you know what the Charleston Airport did was also release details about the vehicle that I was dropped off at, putting my safety at risk on Thursday. They released details on where I get dropped off at the airport by releasing video. It’s all scary for an individual. I have more than 1,300 death threats a year. And so I take my security very, very seriously. I don’t wanna be the next person that gets shot and killed.CASONE: And to be clear, other elected officials have used that crew member, so this is why I see-, so maybe you’re feeling you were maybe targeted by these agents and it was unfair.MACE:  Oh, I absolutely have been targeted at this airport, but thank you for asking. I appreciate it.

An officer claimed in a report on the incident in Charleston that “Any other person in the airport acting and talking the way she [Mace] did, our department would have been dispatch (sic) and we would have addressed the behavior.”