The 'PREDATORS' poster outside her office (Feb.-Nov. 2025)
After her February 10, 2025 House floor speech, Rep. Nancy Mace turned the prop into a fixture: a 'PREDATORS, STAY AWAY FROM' poster bearing the photos, names, and home towns of four named private citizens, which she mounted in the public hallway outside her Longworth office and pushed to her official social-media accounts. It stayed up for weeks, came down in late March 2025 (her press secretary said he knew nothing about its removal), and she revived the motif at a May 2025 Oversight hearing and again in November 2025, 'this will reside outside my office at the Capitol.' Photographs taken March 5, 2025 in the corridor outside her Longworth office show the board displayed alongside a companion 'NANCY MACE PROTECTS WOMEN' board listing her women's-safety bills. The four men deny every allegation; no criminal charges have been filed; the matters are contested, unproven, and in ongoing litigation.
When Rep. Nancy Mace finished her February 10, 2025 "scorched earth" House floor speech, she did not put the poster away. The board she had held up during the address, headshots of four named private citizens under the single word "PREDATORS," with their names and the towns where they live, and the instruction "STAY AWAY FROM", became a fixture she mounted in the public hallway outside her congressional office, carried onto her own social-media feeds, and brought back out again months later. The four men she named, her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant, Eric Bowman, Brian Musgrave, and John Osborne, deny her allegations; one of them, Musgrave, sued her for defamation. This is the record of the poster.
The board becomes a fixture outside her office
After the speech, Mace mounted the same "PREDATORS" poster in the corridor outside her office in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill, where, CNN reported, it remained on display "for the past several weeks." The poster carried the four men's photos and names, the towns where each lives, and the line "STAY AWAY FROM." A representative for the House General Counsel, asked about the accusations, told one accused man's attorneys only that "SLED is investigating the matter."
On February 26, 2025, Eric Bland, lead attorney for Brian Musgrave, publicly posted a photograph of Mace pointing at the poster outside her office, where she had grouped his client with the three other men. His post is embedded below.
Eric Bland (@TheEricBland), February 26, 2025: "Here is a photo of Congresswoman Nancy Mace pointing to the poster she hung outside her office where she grouped our client Brian Musgrave with the other three individuals that she has accused of being 'rapists, human traffickers and sexual predators.'"
A second board: "NANCY MACE PROTECTS WOMEN"
Photographs taken in the corridor on March 5, 2025 and provided to Maceopedia show the display as it stood that day, outside Room 1728 of the Longworth House Office Building. They confirm that the "PREDATORS" board did not hang alone: directly beneath it was a second, maroon board headed "NANCY MACE PROTECTS WOMEN."
March 5, 2025, outside Mace's office: the "Representative Nancy Mace · 1728" nameplate by the door, the office flags, and the two posters on the corridor wall.
The two boards as displayed: "PREDATORS / STAY AWAY FROM" (Patrick Bryant, Eric Bowman, John Osborne, and Brian Musgrave, with home towns and the U.S. House seal) above "NANCY MACE PROTECTS WOMEN."
The lower board lists, by bill number, the legislation Mace frames as her record on the issue. The board's own labels read: H.R. 8027 "Sue VOYEURS Act," H.R. 7778 "Stop VOYEURS Act," H.R. 7567 "Stop deep fakes," H.R. 7909 / H.R. 30 "Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens," H.R. 10398 "Safe Shelters Act," H.R. 10094 "Rape Shield Enhancement Act," H.R. 10290 "Stop the Invasion of Women's Spaces Act," H.R. 10186 "Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act," H.R. 10497 "Prison Rape Prevention Act," H.R. 8387 "VANISH Act," H.R. 8180 "Stop revenge porn," and H.Res. 1579 "Bathroom Bill." The bill descriptions are the board's own wording; Maceopedia takes no position on the bills' merits or on the accusations on the board beside them.
She carried it onto her own feeds
The poster and the speech did not stay in the hallway. Mace shared photos of the "PREDATORS" poster and clips of the floor speech to her official congressional social-media accounts; the poster was still visible in the background of a group photo posted to her official account on March 10, 2025. On her personal account the same day as the speech, she reposted the New York Times story about it with her own caption, a post that drew more than 26,000 likes and whose comments she limited.
Her February 10, 2025 Instagram repost of the New York Times story: "God placed this burden in my path, not to crush me, but to ignite something within me. A purpose. A calling. A responsibility. To make sure these women will never be forgotten, and the men who hurt them will never be allowed to hide again." Comments were limited.
It comes down, quietly
The poster came down outside Mace's office sometime in late March 2025. When the Post and Courier asked about its removal, CNN reported that her press secretary said he did not know anything about it. By then Musgrave had retained counsel and would file a federal defamation suit; the four men had each publicly denied the accusations.
She brings it back, the May 2025 hearing
Roughly three months later, on May 20, 2025, Mace revived the board for a House Oversight subcommittee hearing she chaired and titled "Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces." The same name-and-photo motif reappeared on a poster in the hearing room. On Instagram that day she captioned a clip of herself beside it:
Her May 20, 2025 Instagram post from the hearing: "Real men guard a woman's privacy; predators harvest it. In my Oversight hearing today I'm going to expose predator and rapist Patrick Bryant for the monster he is…" The poster behind her again carried the men's photos, names, and towns; comments were limited.
And again in November 2025, "this will reside outside my office"
In mid-November 2025, Mace announced she would mount the poster outside her office again. Reposting a "PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT" video of herself walking a Capitol corridor, she wrote that "one of our constituents, Patrick Bryant, is trying to silence his victims… here is another PSA, also this will reside outside my office at the Capitol… I won't stop until all predators, all p*dophiles, all r*pists, all m[u]rderers, all criminals are BEHIND BARS. HOLD THE LINE."
November 2025: Mace's "PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT" repost announcing the poster would "reside outside my office at the Capitol."
She amplified the same video on November 20, 2025, quote-posting it above a statement about South Carolina's surveillance-penalty law:
November 20, 2025: "Did you know, in the state of South Carolina, if you film a woman being r*ped, on first offense, that perv is guilty of a misdemeanor… THIS. MUST. CHANGE. HOLD THE LINE."
Days earlier, on November 14, 2025, she had posted about Bryant's lawyers directly:
November 14, 2025: "Just had to threaten Patrick Bryant's attorneys. And, to no one's surprise, I enjoyed it. So, what else is new…"
Where this lands
Brian Musgrave's federal defamation suit over the speech and its republication, including the poster outside her office, was dismissed with prejudice on August 20, 2025, but on sovereign-immunity grounds: U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel found Mace's floor speech and its republication fell within the scope of her congressional employment, so the United States was substituted as defendant and the libel claims were barred by the Federal Tort Claims Act. As the court put it, "Plaintiff has no civil remedy", a ruling on immunity, not a finding that any accusation was true. See Musgrave v. Mace.
All four men named on the poster, Patrick Bryant, Eric Bowman, Brian Musgrave, and John Osborne, deny Mace's allegations. No criminal charges have been filed against them. The accusations are contested and unproven; related civil litigation and a South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) investigation remain pending, and Mace in turn denies the claims brought against her. Nothing here is a finding of fact. For background on the parties see People in the Public Record.
Sources & related coverage
- Mace points at the poster (photo): Eric Bland (@TheEricBland), Feb. 26, 2025, counsel for Brian Musgrave.
- The poster outside her office / its removal: Exclusive: Man accused as 'predator' by Rep. Nancy Mace breaks his silence, CNN (Em Steck & Andrew Kaczynski, Mar. 10, 2025)
- The floor speech that produced the board: Nancy Mace alleges sexual abuse, rape in House floor speech, The Hill · Rep. Nancy Mace details accusations of rape and sexual abuse in a speech from the House floor, NBC News
- One accused man sues: Rep. Nancy Mace accused four Lowcountry men of being sexual predators. One is now suing her for defamation, WCBD News 2 · U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace sued for libel and defamation, The Post and Courier (Caitlin Byrd, Mar. 14, 2025)
- Related on this site: The 'PREDATORS' House-floor speech · The "Breach of Trust" surveillance hearing · Musgrave v. Mace · The Litigation
On the Record
Mace's floor speech: 'I'm going scorched earth' on predators
In a roughly 53-minute House floor speech on February 10, 2025, Mace named multiple men she alleged had assaulted or exploited her and other women, vowing to 'burn this system to the ground' if necessary.
At her own surveillance hearing, Mace displays a 'naked silhouette' of herself: 'That's my body. You can see the silhouette.'
Chairing a House Oversight subcommittee hearing she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces,' Rep. Nancy Mace held up a poster-sized image she said depicted her own body, told the room it had been captured by hidden surveillance without her consent, and said no one had been arrested. She tied the image to her ex-fiancé, Patrick Bryant, who categorically denies her allegations; the matter is contested and in ongoing litigation.