SAEDNEWS: Rep. Nancy Mace left a closed-door meeting with Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors early, saying she’d suffered a “full blown panic attack” after hearing their stories.
According to Saed News, Rep. Nancy Mace left a House Oversight briefing with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse after saying she suffered a “full blown panic attack” while listening to their accounts.
Video from the Capitol shows Mace exiting the committee room in visible distress; she wiped her face, avoided reporters and did not take questions. Shortly afterward she posted on X that she had been sweating, hyperventilating and shaking, and that she “can’t breathe” when recounting what she’d heard.
The meeting gathered several of Epstein’s accusers and members of Congress as part of the Oversight Committee’s continuing probe into the federal handling of the case. Republican leaders who attended said it was important to hear the survivors directly, and the committee has been pressing the Justice Department for records related to Epstein.
Mace — who has previously spoken publicly about her own experience as a survivor of sexual assault — framed her reaction as personal and immediate. In her post she wrote that hearing the victims’ stories was very difficult and expressed sympathy for their fight for justice.
The episode came amid a wider flurry of activity: the Oversight panel recently released a tranche of documents about Epstein and has issued subpoenas to the Justice Department. Lawmakers on both sides say hearing from survivors is part of making sure the public record is complete; for some lawmakers, that moment proved emotionally raw.
