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Outspoken Rep. Nancy Mace has gone wildly viral for insisting that the Cornell student accusing seven fraternity brothers of raping her was actually a willing participant in a “consensual gangbang.”
The firebrand South Carolina Republican joined the divisive debate about the Cornell 7 case some 18 months after she came forward with her own explosive allegations that she’d been drugged and raped by her ex and three of his associates.
“IDK who needs to hear this, but a consensual gangbang is not a rape,” Mace wrote on X in a message viewed more than 1.3 million times since she posted it late Thursday.
Mace’s viral tweet came after a trove of newly released texts showed the Cornell accuser, only known as Jane Doe, chatting amiably to some of the men she later accused of rape, suggesting that they shouldn’t “feel any shame.”
“Our body our choice,” the accuser wrote in one text.
However, the woman’s lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, told The Post Thursday she had been in the early stages of processing the events, and “was going through, denial, shame and ultimately acceptance.”
Her recollections changed in part through seeing group chats with the frat bros advertising her as “free p—y” — and one later bragging that she’d been part of an “eightsome.”
Mace last February made her bombshell claims after uncovering a huge trove of videos and other photographic evidence, including the apparent rape of an incapacitated woman, on the phone of her ex, Patrick Bryant, who has emphatically denied her allegations.
“The two of them, the three of them business partners, the two of them had their phones out just like this. Filming her as she was being raped,” Mace told Congress.
“And she was completely laid out. There was no movement. There was no life. I couldn’t even tell if this young woman was alive.”
Authorities investigated the claims as Bryant filed suit against Mace for blackmail — a case that was tossed as him abusing the legal system to “harass and defame his victims” and “taint a jury pool” ahead of an upcoming rape trial stemming from the revelation, her office said.
Mace’s post had garnered thousands of reactions by Friday afternoon, with some accusing her of turning a blind eye to the rights of the accuser even as she championed other victims.
“Welp, so much for your ‘crusade’ for women’s rights! ” one person wrote, alling the congresswoman a “disgusting hypocrite.”
Others agreed with Mace’s take, but urged her to respect the legal process currently underway.
The Jane Doe in the Cornell case had initially made a formal complaint to officials at the upstate Ivy League university in the weeks after the attack, but prosecutors decided not to file charges.
The case was reopened after she filed a lawsuit against the seven frat bros, their fraternity and the school — alleging Cornell failed to protect her. New York’s Attorney General has since been appointed as special prosecutor.
