Nancy Mace allegedly attempted to use explicit images obtained from her ex-fiance’s phone to gain sole ownership of two valuable properties, according to a new deposition by her former advisor.

The advisor swears under oath that Mace instructed him to confront her ex and utilize the images as leverage. This request is said to have occurred long before Mace’s shocking House floor speech, in which she claimed to possess ‘receipts’ that could unravel a network of predators and sex traffickers.

In the deposition, Wesley Donehue, her former advisor, states that the South Carolina congresswoman directed him to inform her ex-fiance, Patrick Bryant, about certain photos and videos of multiple women she claimed to have discovered on his phone.

One was of a ‘girl on a couch’ who according to Mace was ‘passed out.’ Another was a picture of Mace – Mace says it was of her getting up to use the bathroom, according to the deposition.

Her intention was to use the information ‘as leverage to gain 100 percent ownership’ of two homes she shared with Bryant, one in Washington, DC, and another in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, Donehue said in the deposition. The properties have a combined value of more than $5 million.

‘Did she specifically say to you ‘Please meet with Patrick and show him these images and tell him I’ll make them public if he doesn’t give me both houses?’ a lawyer for Bryant asked the former Mace advisor.

‘Yes,’ he responded. 

Asked if it was ‘effectively an effort to extort or blackmail Patrick,’ Donehue responded, ‘Yeah.’ 

Donehue knew both parties, but said the role made him uncomfortable and put him in the middle of a fraught situation. 

A source familiar with the matter said Donehue was making ‘a wild, outlandish allegation.’

‘He thought he was helping his friend, but all he did was confirm her story,’ said the source, who called Donehue a ‘disgruntled former vendor’ who is close friends with Bryant. 

The deposition comes after Donehue met with SLED, the South Carolina law enforcement department, and after he was subpoenaed by a lawyer for her ex, he told FITS news, a South Carolina political site that obtained the document. It is connected to a civil case.

SLED has confirmed it opened an investigation into Byant following Mace’s allegations against him. None of the people Mace has accused have been charged with a crime.

Donehue recalled the conversation he had on Mace’s behalf as taking place at a lunch meeting in November 2023. 

Mace and Bryant had been battling over their jointly owned $3.9 million beach home and their $1.3 million Washington, D.C. property, DailyMail reported in December 2023.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Mace and the lawyer who conducted the deposition. A Mace source noted that it was the lawyer questioning Donehue who first brought up the alleged ‘effort to extort or blackmail Patrick,’ using ‘blackmail’ again in a subsequent question.

The deposition came to light a day after Mace in an extraordinary public hearing on voyeurism followed up on her earlier accusations of Bryant and other men of being sexual ‘predators’ and running a rape and sex trafficking ring. The men have vigorously denied the allegations, which Mace first leveled in a shocking speech on the House floor. 

During the hearing Mace shared what she said was a ‘naked silhouette’ of herself that she said was taken without her consent. 

Donehue also spoke in the deposition about what he said was Mace’s state of mind before he says he ‘fired’ her – in just one instance of the staff turmoil she has experienced.

‘She was losing a lot of weight, she was getting what she called stress tattoos … she was emotionally distraught at this point in the year. And in my view, her emotional stability was crumbling.’

‘So I don’t wanna make it seem like she was just this machine that didn’t care about anything. She very much cared. But it was coming across as erratic and unstable.’

Mace was at the White House this week as first lady Melania Trump attended the bill signing for a bill to stop revenge porn, and continues to advocate for women she says are victims of abuse after promoting a new hotline for complaints on the House floor.

She shared multiple images at a House subcommittee she chaired Tuesday, although portions of the images were blocked out, and some appeared to be taken from a home security camera in a living room area. 

Donehue also spoke in the deposition about Mace saying ‘inappropriate’ things in their former interactions.

‘Nancy talks about her sex life in a way that I’ve never heard a client or a woman talk about,’ said Donehue, a consultant who operates Push Digital Group and other companies. 

He said ‘it’s like every conversation would devolve into what’s going on in her sex life…something that she talked about all the time and I always felt uncomfortable with.’ 

He also said in the deposition that even after she said she felt for her safety she said she was ‘going to the Caribbean with Patrick and some of his friends, which I questioned, because I said “Nancy, you can’t say that you fear for your safety and you’re going to the Caribbean with him and some of his friends.’

‘Then  she said – and I remember as clear as day – “I’m taking my free vacation in the Caribbean.’

He says he told her ‘Nancy, as your campaign consultant, if it ever comes out that you knew of women being harmed and you didn’t do anything about it, your career is over,’ he said.

He ultimately ‘cut ties’ with her for a variety of reasons, saying he felt ‘uncomfortable’ with the things Mace was asking him to do, according to his deposition testimony.

Bryant has denied Mace’s allegations against him, calling them false and malicious. 

Another man Mace identified, South Carolina businessman Brian Musgrave, has sued Mace for defamation, and she has countersued, claiming he defamed her through ‘malicious and objectively false attacks on her fitness to hold public office.’

Donehue was asked during his deposition about Mace’s scorched earth floor speech earlier this year and how it compared to what she told him back in 2023.

‘The only … accusation … was that Patrick was in possession of pictures of naked women taken without their consent and without them knowing he still had them. There was never any discussion of rape or sex trafficking or anything beyond the fact that he had pictures of naked women taken without their consent,’ he responded. 

He also says in the deposition Mace spoke to him of being physically assaulted by Bryant, and she at one point ‘she had a number of bruises on her arm’ that he said were ‘fingertip-size’ above her elbow and that she said he grabbed her. At another point, he said Mace told him Bryant was doing some ‘shady things’ that ‘she was upset and felt for her safety and was planning on breaking up with him.’