During Tuesday’s discussion on Steve Bannon’s War Room, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) joined the Former White House Chief Strategist and Gaetz attempted to draw upon his many differences with Mace and their agreement to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), but it may not have come across as he intended. Bannon, ever the witticist and remembering well the names of those who’ve wronged him recalled a certain fateful vote that Mace made in 2021.
After Gaetz suggested that he and Mace concurring debunked the narrative that McCarthy was ousted by “hardliner” or “Ultra-Maga” Republicans, Bannon not even blinking asked him. “Didn’t she vote to send me to federal prison for four months?”
Gaetz had described Mace as “not a hard-right intransigent lawmaker,” noting that their “Venn diagram overlaps around spending.”
Mace claimed, “I like the Constitution. I’m a constitutionalist. Okay?”
To which Bannon offered a lethal rhetorical riposte, “My appellate lawyer would disagree about that.”
Steve Bannon: “Didn’t you vote to send me to federal prison?”
Nancy Mace: “I like the Constitution.”
Bannon: “My lawyer would disagree.” pic.twitter.com/Br5PcDSzRG
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 4, 2023
According to Newsweek, Mace was in fact one