Rep. Nancy Mace makes new rape claim, accuses South Carolina AG of inaction

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace made a bombshell claim astir being drugged and raped connected the House level Monday night, past accused South Carolina’s lawyer wide — her imaginable hostile successful the state’s 2026 gubernatorial contention — of doing thing to assistance her.

Throughout the day Mace teased to a large announcement she planned to marque astatine 7 p.m. successful the nation’s Capitol. Once Monday night’s league got underway, Mace enactment her manus connected a Bible she’d brought, pledged to archer the truth, past accused 4 South Carolina “predators who hunt women for sport” of sexually exploiting women, including herself.

According to the 47-year-old lawmaker, successful November 2023 she unearthed video connected her erstwhile fiance’s telephone showing him and 3 “business partners” filming astatine slightest a twelve women, including Mace, successful sexually compromising situations without their consent.

“What I discovered shocked maine to my core,” she said.

Some of the victims, including Mace, had been drugged and raped, according to the lawmaker. She said she has nary thought if it was her ex oregon 1 of his associates who assaulted her. She besides wonders if video of the alleged 2022 transgression against her is connected the Internet.

Mace named each 4 of the alleged rapists and showed their photos. None of the men she accused has been charged with a crime. Mace alleged much than 10,000 inappropriate videos tin beryllium linked to the foursome and claimed to person presented grounds to authorities.

Toward the extremity of her Monday nighttime speech, she tore into the lawyer wide for failing to assistance her. While she was speaking, an adjutant placed a poster adjacent to Mace featuring a photograph of “Do-nothing Attorney General Alan Wilson.”

Attorney General Wilson’s bureau responded with a connection defending their prosecutors’ grounds connected enactment crimes, called accusations to the contrary “politically motivated” and said her claims against the A.G. were “categorically” untrue.

“Miss Mace either does not recognize oregon is purposefully mischaracterizing the relation of the Attorney General,” Wilson’s bureau said successful a statement. “At this time, our bureau has not received immoderate reports oregon requests for assistance from immoderate instrumentality enforcement oregon prosecution agencies regarding these matters. Additionally, the Attorney General and members of his bureau person had nary relation and nary cognition of these allegations until her nationalist statements.”

Neither Wilson oregon Mace person announced their imaginable intentions to tally for politician erstwhile term-limited Gov. Henry McMaster steps down.

In 2020, Mace came guardant to accidental she’d been raped much than 2 decades earlier and ne'er discussed it publicly. That incidental coiled up astatine the bosom of a suit against ABC News big George Stephanopoulos erstwhile helium asked Mace how, arsenic a rape victim, she tin enactment Donald Trump, who was recovered “liable for rape” successful a civilian court.

Trump, who was found responsible for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll decades ago, sued ABC News implicit Stephanopoulos’ prime of words. The web settled the lawsuit by committing $15 million to Trump’s statesmanlike library.