Rep. Nancy Mace stormed out of the Home Oversight Committee’s closed-door assembly with Jeffrey Epstein victims visibly shaken and in tears, claiming their horror tales gave her a “full blown panic assault.”
Video exhibits the South Carolina Republican — who’s shared her personal expertise as a sufferer of sexual assault — wipe tears from her eyes as she stormed down a hallway stuffed with reporters.
The lawmaker refused to reply questions however later took to X, the place she described hyperventilating in the course of the assembly.
“As a latest survivor (not 2 years in), I had a really tough time listening to their tales. Full blown panic assault. Sweating. Hyperventilating. Shaking. I can’t breathe,” she later posted on X, including that she was pressured to depart the assembly early.
“I really feel the immense ache of how arduous all victims are combating for themselves as a result of we all know completely nobody will combat for us. GOD BLESS ALL SURVIVORS,” she added.
Six of Epstein’s accusers met with members of the Oversight Committee, together with Chairman James Comer and Home Speaker Mike Johnson, on Tuesday for 2 hours as its probe into the federal authorities’s dealing with of the Epstein case continues.
Home lawmakers mentioned they realized “further names” of individuals of curiosity who might present additional details about the convicted pedophile, who killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
“There was outrage. It was each — I might describe it as heartbreaking and infuriating. That justice has been delayed so lengthy,” Johnson instructed reporters after the assembly.
Mace made an explosive Home speech in February wherein she accused her ex-fiancé and three different males of committing “wicked” sexual crimes towards herself and a dozen different girls, together with minors.
She got here ahead with the stunning allegations of rape, voyeurism and different sexual abuse after uncovering a trove of greater than 10,000 movies and different photographic proof contained on the telephone of her former husband-to-be Patrick Bryant, who together with the three different males have denied the allegations.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) have cosponsored a discharge petition to have the entire authorities information on Epstein publicly launched.
The petition requires 218 signatures to pressure a home vote on a invoice that may require the DOJ to launch the information.
Mace is now one in every of 4 Republicans who has signed the petition, in line with The Hill. Different GOP lawmakers who’ve signed are Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.).
