Former Adviser Calls Nancy Mace a ‘Pitiful Embarrassment’ in Social Media Rant

A Republican strategist is lashing out at Rep. Nancy Mace months after he says he fired her as a client, dubbing the far-right lawmaker a “pitiful embarrassment.”

Wesley Donehue, who is the CEO of a South Carolina political consulting agency, went after Mace in a string of X posts on Friday.

“You can stop texting me,” Donehue wrote in one. “I fired Nancy Mace as client a few months back because I’m a political consultant and not a babysitter, a sex therapist or a doctor who can prescribe fixes for chemical imbalances. I don’t have time for her constant egotistical bulls--- and drama in my life.”

Mace, hardly a stranger to controversy, was recently in the media spotlight for her successful effort to prevent an incoming transgender colleague, Sarah McBride, from using the Capitol Hill bathrooms corresponding to her gender.

Several former staffers previously told the Daily Beast that Mace begged her team to let her “get punched in the face” to garner “media attention” as a mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“It’s seems that I hurt Nancy’s feelings,” Donehue wrote in another post. “Can’t wait for her to throw that victim card down again. It’s really her only play. A pitiful embarrassment to the South Carolina Lowcountry.”

Gabrielle Lipsky, a spokesperson for Mace, downplayed the attack.

“The government is about to shut down and yet, this is what your publication is writing about,” she said.

Donehue appears to have been set off after Mace went after Fox News host Trey Gowdy, formerly a congressman from Mace’s home state, who had criticized her for voting against a Donald Trump-backed spending bill on Thursday night.

Mace’s way of firing back was to question whether Gowdy was transgender.

“Which bathroom do we think Trey Gowdy uses?” she wrote in an X post, along with a photo of his face.

Amid his rant against Mace, Donehue defended Gowdy.

“Imagine wanting to run statewide and thinking this is a good idea,” Donehue wrote of the South Carolina congresswoman. “The upstate loves Trey Gowdy. This is what happens when a person cannot control their emotions enough to think strategically.”

Donehue finally ended his tirade with an expression of concern about Mace’s mental well-being.

“I’ll stop piling on,” he wrote. “I’ve been worried about Nancy Mace for a while now. Mental health is a serious issue. I want her to get better and seek treatment.”