South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace’s ex-fiancé filed a retaliatory lawsuit against her on Thursday, claiming that she inaccurately portrayed him as a sexual predator as part of a larger scheme she concocted with a friend’s estranged wife.

Businessman Patrick Bryant filed the lawsuit in the Palmetto State’s Charleston County on Thursday.

In it, he accuses Mace of organizing an elaborate ploy to take him and Eric Bowman, a mutual acquaintance, down through a fabricated assault story the congresswoman explosively revealed in a speech on the House floor in February.

Mace delivered the impassioned speech in February where she outed four men she accused of drugging, molesting and filming multiple female victims, including herself.

Bryant, her ex-flame, was among the men she accused. The pa

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