Natalie Johnson, a onetime aide to South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, tore into her former boss over a bigoted invoice to ban Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride, who’s transgender, from utilizing ladies’s toilet amenities within the U.S. Capitol.
“‘Protecting women’ in Congress would be introducing a bill to bar Matt Gaetz, a sexual predator with an affinity for underage girls, from ever walking those halls again, rather than dropping a messaging bill that’s sole goal is getting on TV,” Johnson wrote on X on Wednesday.
Johnson was referring to former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, whom Donald Trump had nominated to be lawyer basic and who lately withdrew that nomination amid allegations of kid intercourse trafficking.
“If you think this bill is about protecting women and not simply a ploy to get on Fox News, you’ve been fooled,” Johnson additionally wrote on Wednesday.
Mace additionally seems to be fundraising off her anti-trans toilet invoice. Johnson posted a screenshot of a fundraising textual content for Mace that stated, “I don’t want to see your junk in my bathroom. It’s Rep. Mace[.] The Trans Mob wants to k*ll me. But I FOUGHT BACK,” and included a URL that redirects to Mace’s marketing campaign web site.
Johnson replied to the textual content on X, writing, “I don’t want to see your botched, cheap hooker-inspired boob job on my television. Can we introduce a bill to bar that?”
McBride, for her half, known as Mace’s assault out for exactly what it was: “a blatant attempt from far-right extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.”
“We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars,” she stated.
As McBride identified, the irony is that whereas Republicans like Mace are stirring up controversy with divisive, culture-war payments, important points affecting on a regular basis People—resembling excessive housing costs, the shortage of inexpensive well being care, and the youngster care disaster—stay largely unaddressed.
After Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch, wrote that Mace had “posted 262 times on X in the last 36 hours about the bathroom,” even a member of Trump’s former White Home chimed in.
“If I tweet 262 times in 36 hours about *anything* please come do a wellness check,” wrote Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was Trump’s White Home director of strategic communications and who at the moment co-hosts “The View.”
GOP Home Speaker Mike Johnson reaffirmed his help of Mace on Wednesday, writing in a press launch that the Capitol and Home workplace buildings would formally segregate toilet amenities in accordance with “organic intercourse.”
Because the GOP continues its campaign towards transgender individuals and LGBTQ+ rights, many like McBride are urging lawmakers to cease losing time on divisive rhetoric and deal with the insurance policies that profit People.
