Adding to the storm of controversy surrounding South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican strategist spoke up in late December about his interactions with her. Wesley Donehue, who is the CEO of a South Carolina political consulting agency, lashed out at Mace months after he said he fired her as a client, dubbing the far-right lawmaker a “pitiful embarrassment.”

Taking to X (Twitter) on December 20, Donehue had much to say within a string of posts. “You can stop texting me,” Donehue wrote, starting off the thread. “I fired Nancy Mace as a 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.”

Donehue’s tirade against Mace seems to have started directly after she attacked 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. As if to loop the anchor into the hate campaign Mace has been waging against transgender citizens and the LGBTQ+ community in general, most recently on Capitol Hill, the representative fired back, questioning whether Gowdy was himself transgender.

“Which bathroom do we think Trey Gowdy uses?” she wrote on her X profile, including a photo of his face. In response, Donehue defended Gowdy and criticized Mace: “Imagine wanting to run statewide and thinking this is a good idea. The upstate loves Trey Gowdy. This is what happens when a person cannot control their emotions enough to think strategically.”

This is far from the first time Mace has found herself being distanced away from those who once backed her. In fact, several former staffers previously told the right-leaning outlet 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.

One of the last tweets posted December 20 signified how Donehue felt about Mace, along with situations like hers in general. “Loyalty still matters,” he wrote. “You can go fast alone, but you can go far with others. A major red flag is when a “leader” has extreme turnover and even their closest allies bail on them. It’s because they don’t care about anyone but themselves. Extreme narcissism is the path to failure.”

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