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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Io Dodds

Nancy Mace explains why she broke down meeting Epstein victims — but then backed Trump’s ‘hoax’ claims hours later

Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace has expanded on why she was forced to walk out of a meeting with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's empire of sexual abuse last week.

In a video posted on X on Sunday, the South Carolina representative — who is also running for governor there — described how one of the women's testimony triggered a trauma reaction stemming from Mace's own history of being raped.

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