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by DYLAN NOLAN
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South Carolina first district congresswoman Nancy Mace has rankled U.S. president Donald Trump through her support of a discharge petition to force a full U.S. House vote on the release of documents concerning convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump reportedly called Mace and Colorado representative Lauren Bobert this Tuesday to lobby against their support of the petition ahead of the swearing-in of Arizona representative Adelita Grijalva. During her victorious campaign, Grijalva promised to be the 218th signatory on the petition which would force the GOP-controlled chamber to vote on releasing the so-called “Epstein files.”
Trump himself indicated he’d be willing to release the files while campaigning for office in 2024, telling podcaster Lex Fridman “Yeah, I’d be inclined to (declassify) the Epstein [files], I’d have no problem with it.”
Since assuming office for the second time Trump has taken a different tone, declaring a push to release documents generated during the federal government’s investigation into Epstein a partisan hoax perpetrated by Democrats.
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Epstein died under suspicious circumstances while awaiting trial for allegedly sex trafficking minors during Trump’s first administration. While his death was officially ruled a suicide, speculation has persisted that Epstein was eliminated for knowing too much about the dozens of uber-powerful people who he is believed to have filmed having sex with children on his “Little Saint James” private island.
While Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years in federal prison for her role in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, the United States Department of Justice – under both the Democratic administration of Joe Biden and the Republican administration of Trump – has yet to bring criminal charges against any of the powerful individuals to whom the children were sex trafficked.
Given the near-universal support for the prosecution of pedophiles, Trump’s decision to declare there’s “nothing to see here” proved politically costly even before Democrats in Congress released select messages from the tens of thousands of pages of communications that concern Trump’s relationship with Epstein.
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Mace and a group of three other Republican representatives had repeatedly signaled their intention to support the discharge petition to release a broader selection of documents – an intention that was largely symbolic until this week. Grijalva’s swearing in turned this hypothetical vote into a reality and made Mace’s support of the release crucial to the GOP House Oversight committee deciding to release a trove of 20,000 of the deceased sex-trafficker’s emails.
Mace likely elected to subject herself to the wrath of Trump because her repeated anti-pedophile stances have become a core plank of her gubernatorial campaign. Mace has repeatedly accused S.C. attorney general Alan Wilson, one of the race’s other frontrunners, of protecting Palmetto State pedophiles by cutting overly lenient plea deals.
But Mace wants to have her political cake and eat it too – attempting to clarify that her support for the release of the documents isn’t an attack on Trump.
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Shame on the FAKE NEWS for making this story about President Trump, and not about Epstein’s victims.
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) November 13, 2025
So many of us NEVER SEE JUSTICE. I stand with all survivors. I will NEVER abandon you.
HOLD THE LINE. pic.twitter.com/wv2oAZAtxL
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“I penned a love letter to Trump last night,” Mace told reporters assembled outside of the Capitol.
Mace’s “love letter” included her recounting multiple times she alleges she has been the victim of sexual assaults and was punctuated with renewed avowals of her loyalty to Trump.
“As a survivor I will defend every last attack on President Trump to the death, everywhere,” Mace wrote.
Love letter or not – Trump is unlikely to forget Mace’s choice to cross him on an issue that he’s turned into a political litmus test as a slate of other candidates vie for his support in the 2026 South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary election.
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While the move might cost Mace a shot at Trump’s endorsement, it’s unlikely to hurt her with the Republican primary electorate, who have repeatedly repudiated Trump’s attempts to bury the prolific pedophile’s blackmail ring when questioned by pollsters.
It remains unclear why Trump refuses to bust up what appears to be history’s most perfidious blackmail ring. Have the orchestrators of his near-assassination in Butler, PA made it clear that they’ll choose a sharper shooter next time if he attempts to meaningfully address the issue? Is Trump willfully covering for the U.S. intelligence community and their counterparts in Israel – both of whom are up to their eyeballs in well documented connections to Epstein and Maxwell? Is Trump himself compromised?
While FITSNews doesn’t profess to have the answer to this million dollar question – we do promise to continue to address the elephant in the room in our coverage of the Epstein saga.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
(Via: Travis Bell)
Dylan Nolan is the director of special projects at FITSNews. He graduated from the Darla Moore school of business in 2021 with an accounting degree. Got a tip or story idea for Dylan? Email him here. You can also engage him socially @DNolan2000.
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10 comments
If Trump was somehow meaningfully implicated in the Epstein Files, then there was a ten thousand percent chance that the Biden administration would have fully exploited it to the hilt in the 4 years they were in power. Seriously, if you were in the Biden DOJ/FBI and had to choose between 1. ginning up faux-felonies with the NY D.A. based on real estate appraisals for real estate loans between sophisticated parties – which were fully paid off and no-one lost a dime, OR 2: anything remotely having to do with sex with minors, there is no logical person on this earth who doesn’t think they would have chosen option number 2. Which is why this probably has something more to do with protecting the US, French, and Israeli intelligence community. And the fact that when a key House Republican sought a unanimous consent motion 2 days ago to bring the full release of the documents to the floor for a vote, the Democrats blocked the vote. So the dog only wants to chase and bark at the car, not actually catch it. People say Epstein was Mossad – I don’t think so. I think he was a free-lancer with a deep bench in the Israeli intelligence circles, but he didn’t officially “wear the badge.”
You are a joke. Trump is going to be all over these files when they come out. He already is. We don’t know why the files were not released by the DOJ during Biden’s administration. Probably because they were trying to build a case against multiple people, and you don’t release your evidence before indictments. But we will never know, and efforts to prosecute Epstein’s clients were obviously killed by the corrupt Trump FBI and DOJ.
As for the unanimous consent resolution, that was a total distraction and probably an attempt to derail the vote next week, to avoid voting on the record, or to be able to say, “We already voted on that.” There was no risk in putting up a unanimous consent resolution to release the files because there was never going to be unanimous consent. One representative could block it, and Trump has plenty of spineless House members to do that.
The Democrats were right. Move on to the real vote so we can all see who wants the files to come out, because in that vote, everyone has to vote on the record. Isn’t it going to be fun to watch that roll call on C-SPAN? Tim Burchett, who put up the unanimous consent resolution, refused to support the discharge petition, so we know he is a Trump ass kisser and does not want to vote to release the files.
Finally, let’s not forget that Michael Wolf said that Epstein showed him pictures of Trump with topless young girls, and when Pam Bondi was asked in a Senate Judiciary hearing if the FBI had pictures of Trump with young girls, she refused to answer.
Nancy Mace, despite other faults that might be criticized, should be praised for her stand to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. That took backbone, even courage, something not found among the other SC Trump ass kissers in Congress. By the way, how do SC’s other Republican candidates for a Governor stand on the issue?
Thank you for saying that. You wrote my comment for me.
“It remains unclear why Trump refuses to bust up what appears to be history’s most perfidious blackmail ring.”
Haha. Really? It is perfectly clear. If Trump was not implicated in the files he would have released them.
LOL, there is nothing unclear about what Trump is trying to do. And why do you call it a blackmail ring? It was a child sex trafficking ring. Let’s not whitewash the facts or the seriousness of the crime. Since Donald “the 1980s in Palm Beach was a different time” Trump seems to be neck deep in all this, I see the rush by the MAGA cult to downplay how disgusting it was.
Trump knew about the girls.
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“It remains unclear…”
Are… are you on the list?