The representative for South Carolina accused her former promised sexual abuse in a speech before Congress

The legislator Nancy Mace of South Carolina used a speech of almost an hour in the United States House of Representatives to accuse her former fiance to physically abuse her, record sexual acts with her and other people without her consent and conspire with commercial partners in acts of violation and inappropriate sexual behavior.

Mace said he was talking because the main prosecutor of his native state did not take measures even after she warned the investigators. It is likely that the same prosecutor is the Mace opponent if he is running for the governor of South Carolina in 2026, which he is considering.

Mace said he was going to “destroy” and explained how, in November 2023, “I accidentally discovered some of the most atrocious crimes against imaginable women. We are talking about Violations, Not spoiled photos, unseeled videos of women and girls minor and the Premeditated and calculated exploitation of women and girls in my district”

Mace mentioned a Four men involved including the businessman of the Charleston area, Patrick Bryant, who was his fiance until 2023 and was a door to support her during her 2022 re -election campaign.

The AP could not independently verify MACE statements. Bryant told the AP: “I categorically deny these accusations. I take this matter seriously and fully cooperate with any legal process necessary to clean my name. ”

Mace accused South Carolina Attorney, Alan Wilson, to delay any investigation into Bryant and the other men after she took the photos and video to the state authorities.

“Did the Attorney General of the South make any of these predators accused after having received clear and forceful evidence, including videos, photos and witnesses?” Mace asked, noting that his office had established a line of denunciation for any person who had information about accusations.

In a subsequent statement to Mace’s speech, Wilson’s office described his comments on the prosecutor’s conduct as “categorically false” and said that The office “has not received any report or request for assistance from any police or processing agency regarding these matters”.

Mace, former member of the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, was the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, the State Military School, where her father served as a cadet commander. After holding a brief position in the State Representatives Chamber, In 2020 it became the first republican woman chosen to represent South Carolina in Congress turning the first district after a single mandate with a Democratic representative.

His decision to ventilate accusations in a speech before the plenary of the Chamber was unusual. In a statement, Mace stressed that the statements of the members in the Plenary of the Chamber “are legislative acts par excellence” and, therefore, are protected by the “speech or debate” clause, which generally protects the legislators of be sued for what they say.

“This is not a story about bitter ex -girlfriends or consensual sex videos; There are many of those. I don’t care what two adults consent to do, ”said Mace. He mentioned a dozen bills in which he had worked in the Chamber, on issues that went from stopping voyeurism to prohibit transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the United States Capitol or in the Chamber’s Office Buildings of representatives.

In 2019, Mace spoke publicly for the first time about a sexual assault that, according to her, had occurred more than two decades earlier, and addressed her legislative colleagues in South Carolina to advocate for adding an exception of rape and incest to the prohibition of the State Representatives Chamber on all abortions after the detection of a fetal beat.

On Monday, Mace said that in the gallery of the House of Representatives they were accompanied by several women who, according to her, had been victims of Bryant and the other men. Among the Republican legislators who sat down behind Mace during their speech to show their support were representatives Lauren Bobert, Republican of Colorado, and Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida.

“Nancy Mace is our friend and we wanted to support her and give her breath she needed to spread that message” said Bobert.

MACE, 47, won a third term in the United States House of Representatives in November and said that he is seriously “considering” to run for Governor of South Carolina in 2026. If he appears to that race, he will probably face Wilson, in his fourth term and also son of the representative Joe Wilson, in the Republican primaries.

MACE has greatly supported President Donald Trump, working for his 2016 campaign, but criticized him after the violence of January 6, 2021 at the United States Capitol, a criticism that promoted Trump to support a rival of the party Republican in his 2022 campaign. MACE defeated that opponent, won the re -election and received Trump’s support in his 2024 campaign.

Mace refused to make more comments to journalists in the Capitol after speech. When asked how he felt now, he said: “I am at peace.”