Rep. Nancy Mace’s former communications director isn’t shopping for Mace’s claims that she was attacked by a trans activist. On Tuesday evening, Mace wrote that she was “physically accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women.”
In accordance with reviews, James McIntyre, cofounder of the Illinois chapter of Foster Care Alumni of America, was arrested and charged with assaulting a authorities official after an occasion on the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday evening. Witnesses have stated that what they noticed doesn’t match Mace’s claims.
Mace posted an image of herself sporting a sling, writing on X “Just sitting here with your run-of-the-mill gentle ‘normal handshake,’” an obvious reference to the declare that she was assaulted.
Natalie Johnson, who served as former communications director for Mace throughout her first yr in Congress, responded to Mace’s tweet. “This is the same woman who told staff, myself included, during Jan. 6 that she wanted to get ‘punched in the face’ by a rioter so she could get on TV,” Johnson wrote. “She’s full of shit and her prop of a sling is a pathetic ploy for attention.”
In accordance with the Washington Put up, Elliot Hinkle, a foster-care advocate from Wyoming, witnessed the interplay between Mace and McIntyre.
“What we witnessed was a handshake, a passionate shake, but it didn’t look like an assault or intended aggression,” Hinkle stated, referencing a number of individuals they stated additionally noticed the encounter. They stated McIntyre instructed Mace, “Trans youth are also foster youth, and they need your support.”
Johnson has been important of her former boss prior to now. Not too long ago, the previous staffer slammed Mace after the lawmaker promoted a invoice, disingenuously known as “Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act,” that bans trans girls from utilizing single-sex federally owned loos. The transfer was a direct assault at Delaware’s newly elected Rep. Sarah McBride. McBride is the primary brazenly transgender member of Congress.
“Tweeting 262 times about a bill that applies to like .00000001% of Congress in 36 hours is definitely about protecting women. It’s certainly not just a ploy for media attention,” Johnson wrote on X. “When you assume this invoice is about defending girls and never merely a ploy to get on Fox Information, you’ve got been fooled,” Johnson added.
Since becoming a member of Congress in 2021, Mace’s affinity for Matt Gaetz-style stunts has grown. She even joined Gaetz, whom she had beforehand described as a “political D-lister” and a “fraud,” in ousting former GOP Speaker Kevin McCarthy. In 2023, former staffers revealed that the South Carolina congresswoman had more and more develop into obsessive about searching for media consideration.
McIntyre was held in a single day in a D.C. jail complicated and allowed to return to his house in Chicago below circumstances he keep at the least 100 ft away from Mace, and he’s additionally banned from getting into D.C. The latter situation was objected to by his lawyer.
