May 21, 2025
Nancy Mace Displays Naked Silhouette In BIZARRE Hearing
Rep. Nancy Mace shared a naked photo during a House subcommittee hearing that she says was taken without her consent.
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The Constitution's Fourth Amendment
enshrines
a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Yet today that freedom is violated
by secret cameras and hidden devices
to record women and girls with impunity.
Behind me is a screenshot
from one of the videos I found of myself.
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The yellow circle.
This naked silhouette is my naked body.
- Is it?
- Is it her naked body?
Yeah.
I couldn't I can't tell
what that is at all.
You know what that feels like to me, Anna?
The plane that hit the Pentagon.
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Like, when they first put it out,
they're like, oh, here's the video
of the plane hitting the Pentagon.
I'm like, where the hell's the plane?
I watched that thing 30 times,
couldn't see the plane,
so I couldn't see the silhouette.
But that's a good thing.
Why are you putting out
naked pictures of yourself?
Yeah. And look.
I'm of two minds on what's going on here
and what she's drawing attention to.
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Because, yeah, I find it
to be a massive problem if anyone is being
secretly taped when they're engaged
in any type of intimacy
or when they're in a vulnerable state,
like that's wrong
and there should be protections
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against that happening at the same time.
She's been wilding lately.
Like what's going on, right?
Like she's been engaging in, like,
all these weird stunts,
going out there talking about the men she
slept with and how they've wronged her.
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And she's, like, been turning certain,
you know, political hearings and things
into, like, a personal grievance fest.
I don't know what's happening with her.
Like, I feel like something's
happened to her.
- That's like making her lash out.
- I don't know about that.
I think this is when
attention seeking goes wrong.
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Like she is trying so hard
to get everybody's attention.
But it's backfiring.
Like, the only reason
why I know about this, by the way,
is because Republican voters on social
media are totally chiding her Dogpiling
like this isn't helping her politically.
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Yeah, but it depends. So let's be honest.
So, when she was going after,
you know, McBride.
McBride.
On on on which bathrooms to go in
because McBride is transgender.
Yeah. Then the right wing was on our side.
They were. They were.
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And that was. And that was disgusting.
But when she is saying that men,
did her wrong, right.
And and and harmed her and,
and rape and sexual allegations
all of a sudden the right wing is like.
I don't know if I believe that.
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Well, no, what they don't like is the fact
that by by talking about the way
in which she was allegedly victimized,
she's also drawing attention to the fact
that she, as an unmarried woman,
is having sex with all of these other men.
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- Oh, they don't like that.
- And they take issue with that.
Okay, so.
Because you're only supposed
to have sex to reproduce
and only in the context of marriage.
So I would view all of that
as illegitimate criticism of Nancy Mace.
But there is very legitimate criticism
of Nancy Mace.
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Definitely.
Which is why are you putting out
naked pictures of yourself
if you feel so aggrieved?
- Yes, exactly.
- That makes no sense.
It makes no sense.
Okay, so let me give you some more details
about what's going on here.
So this bizarre hearing was held
by the House cybersecurity,
Information Technology
and Government Innovation Subcommittee.
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A nice, concise name for a subcommittee.
And she's the chair of said subcommittee.
So it was titled breach of Trust
Surveillance in Private spaces,
which is a serious issue.
So you have you have my attention.
Her testimony was a follow up to a speech
that she apparently delivered
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back in February in which, in that speech,
she accused her ex fiance,
Patrick Bryant, and three other men
of rape, sex trafficking,
trafficking and recording sex acts
with her and others without consent.
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So those are some serious allegations.
You should pursue criminal charges
against them for doing this.
Allegedly.
Now outside her congressional office,
mace displays a poster with each of their
photos, names and cities of residents
sandwiched between the words
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predators and stay away from.
And look, I want
to just mention one other thing.
Nancy Mace has been the victim of rape
in the past, and that was
what what led to her coming out against,
the so-called, pro-life people
who want to ban abortions nationally
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because she's not on board with that.
She thinks that there should be exceptions
made, especially in the case of rape,
because she herself was a victim of rape.
Now, yesterday she teased
her testimony on X, writing, yes,
I'm going there today, I will.
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Today I will show my naked body on one
of the videos predator and rapist Patrick
Bryant took of me and many other women.
So what are the other criticisms
that she's getting is that she seems to be
dealing with personal issues publicly.
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And if you've been victimized in this way,
go to the authorities.
Try to get justice
in a way that's actually effective.
And here's some more
for accusations against Bryant.
I speak not just as a lawmaker,
but as a survivor.
Starting on November 5th, 2023,
I discovered my former fiancé, Patrick
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Bryant, had filmed women without their
knowledge, without their permission and
without their consent, he filmed rape two.
He appeared to catalog his tapes and
footage and images and photos in the way
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that he saved the files, and he stored
these images, photos and videos for years.
This naked silhouette is my naked body.
I didn't know that I had been filmed.
I didn't give my consent.
I didn't give my permission.
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And this particular video
that Patrick Bryant recorded of,
of of me on his secret camera, he saved
for over three years without my knowledge.
Now, he denies these allegations.
He calls them outrageous.
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In a statement to Politico on Tuesday,
Bryant called the accusations made
during the hearing false and outrageous.
And I want to be clear
about something else.
Obviously, you know,
her going public with these allegations
does nothing in regard to adjudicating
whether or not Bryant actually did
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the things that he's being accused of.
And that's the thing that's frustrating
about this, because I don't know.
You don't know.
We don't have we're not equipped
with what's necessary
to adjudicate a case like that.
Yeah.
So there's a reason
why she's doing it in the house.
Because you can't be sued for defamation
for things you say
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on the floor of the house.
Exactly. So good point.
Yeah.
And she's put out some comments
obviously publicly on on X. But the
heaviest of the charges she's leveling,
in the house and the Patrick Ryan
and the others are saying.
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Then say it outside. Say it outside.
Cash me outside, basically. Right.
Because if you say it outside,
then they'll sue.
And what they're saying is,
then we'll finally get to adjudicated.
You're hanging this over our heads.
We don't get to disprove it.
So you like. So there's no criminal case.
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There's no civil case.
And you won't allow one.
You're just smearing us.
Now, she might be totally right.
But how the hell would we know if.
But if if you're if you're right and you
think it was a real criminal violation,
then press charges.
Right.
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So doing this on the floor of the house
just doesn't make any sense.
It seems like it's.
You want to hit them
without being held accountable and without
having to present other evidence.
Right.
And then finally, if you're outraged
that they made tapes of you naked,
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how does it help to show the whole nation?
Like, I can't believe you made it public.
Now I'll make it 10,000 times more public.
Is not a logical thing to do.
So I don't know if she's just trying
to get attention in a big way,
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or if she's kind
of a little bit unhinged at this point.
And I look, to be fair to her,
maybe she suffered some trauma
from all of that, etc., but we but this is
not the right way to handle things at all.
Not close.
In fact, one of the other men
that she's accused of rape
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has also sued her for defamation.
Theoretically, the purpose of showing
these images and telling these stories
in a house hearing was to bolster her push
for stricter sexual misconduct laws.
Now, mace has introduced the Sue Voyeurs
Act and the Stop Voyeurs Act, which she
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says will create a civil right of action
for victims and expand the narrow
federal prohibition on video voyeurism.
And look.
At least she's proposing something.
And this isn't just personal,
but is she going to fight for this bill?
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Does the bill make sense?
More importantly.
Because, look, the allegations
she's making are serious.
And if they are true,
there should be consequences for them.
- You get what I'm saying?
- Yeah.
Of course.
So we'll see if anything else
develops from this.
But it would be pretty sick
if she's using her position of power
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to defame an ex in a setting
where she could do so with impunity.
Yeah.
And that's why we go to court,
and we don't try to try these cases
in the court of public opinion,
because it's super unfair to both sides.
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