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Faced with new allegations of domestic abuse including sexual battery, Libertarian Party lightning rod and avowed ultra-nationalist Augustus Sol Invictus has been both lashing out at his enemies for what he calls slander and pursuing a dealhe sayswill heal his reputation and his relationship with the party.

Invictus, who ran as a candidate for the Libertarian Party of Floridas U.S. Senate nomination but lost in the primary, was accused in a March 21 reportfiled with the Edgewood Police Department by an unidentified woman, who said that during their 15-month relationship that ended early this year he repeatedly verbally, physically and sexually assaultedher, and even held a gun to her and threatened to kill her.

The allegations come at a time when Invictus is almost simultaneously trying to repair both his reputation and his relationship with the party, and launching a self-described war against his enemies, including against some in the party he says are out to destroy him, withan anger-filled video he posted on Facebook.

The police report allegations include her description of a March, 2016, incident in which she alleged, Mr. Invictus got angry, beat her until her eyes were shut, dragged her into the closet and put a gun to her head, asking her why he shouldnt just kill her. A simlar incident happened again in January/February 2017 where he dragged her into the closet and put a gun to her head, beat her and attempted to suffocate her. This went on for several hours. [The victim, name redacted] explained that he then proceeded to sexually assault her.

The woman who filed the report was not identified by police, who redacted her name and other information from released copies.

The police report is 100 percent false, Invictus replied to FloridaPolitics.com.

He insistedthat the woman and another woman he would not name were part of a conspiracy that included at least a couple of people within the Libertarian Party of Florida, the man who defeated him in the August U.S. Senate primary, Paul Stanton, and the partys former state chairman, Adrian Wyllie,who he said are trying to destroy his reputation.

In the video he posted on Facebook, he threatened to sue for slander.

No charges were pursuedagainst Invictus as a result of the police report because the incidents allegedly occurred in another jurisdiction Altamonte Springs. Edgewood police urgedthe complainantto seek an injunction against Invictusand to re-report the allegations to the Altamonte Springs police. A recent check of Orange County Clerk of Court records and the Altamonte Springs Police Department indicate she had not done either yet.

Libertarian Party leaders declined to talk to FloridaPolitics.com about Invictus, the police report, or discussions with him, except to note that they are in mutually-agreed-upon mediation regarding complaints and demands he has made to the party.

Stanton and Wyllie eachdenied there is any conspiracy, and said they do not know the woman who filed the report. Both dismissed his claims, though both acknowledged they are unhappy that he is still in the party, or that anyone pays attention to him.

Its typical of the kind of lunacy he comes up with, said Wyllie, who resigned as LPF chairman last year over Invictus standing and candidacy.

Its ridiculous, Stanton said. Hes just making fantastical, bizarre claims, just like he did in the primary, just like he always does. I think a lot of us are getting tired of it.

Invictus is the Orlando-area lawyer who made his fameby defending neo-Nazis in criminal court cases, and then, as he ran for the U.S. Senate, publicized his ownpenchant for behaviors like drinking goats blood or writing journals while onLSD.

Since then hes charged that opponents he blames anti-fascist groups called antifa have been threatening him, disrupting or preventing his rallies and appearances, and resorting to violence on someoccasions. He also claims his family is being targeted. He has young children. And he claimed police areharassing him too, saying he was pulled over and harassed by deputy sheriffs in South Carolina this week for no reason.

He blames a press release the party issued under Wyllie in 2015 disavowing some of his political and philosophical positions. Thatrelease, he charges, falsely accused him of believing in eugenics and state-sponsored murder, and helped spread a false allegationthat he is a white supremacist.

He has been demanding the party publicly retract those statements, and last week filed notice that he intended to sue the party for defamation. That led to the offer of mediation.

He told FloridaPolitics.com the mediation is over, and that the party has agreed to his demands, with just legal details to be worked out. He said hes expectingthe party to issue a press release soon, retractingthings it said about him in the 2015 press release. And he believes that will solve some of his problems.

Were all very motivated moving forward to having this resolved so we can move on with our lives, he said. I expect it is going to clear my name in a big way. Of course, it wont solve all my problems, but a correction of the original false allegations are going to clear my name in a big way.

He said he is expecting total vindication, and that it would be an embarrassment to Stanton, who he said was the only key LPF official still opposing him.

Stanton, who is on the LPF executive committee, said whatever the party does, it does not mean that most of its members dont dislike Invictus.

Unfortunately, there is a small segment in the party that does support him. It is very troubling. However, the vast majority of the Libertarian Party both in Florida and outside Florida finds him to be appalling, to say the least, he said.

Stanton said the police report reinforces his worst concern.

Augustus Invictus advocates violence toward and subjugation of vulnerable people, Stanton said, noting thats what the police report says he did to the woman. That is entirely antithetic to the Libertarian message of peace and non-aggression.

In the Facebook videoposted last week,Invictus vowed vengeance and made references to violence. However, in talking to FloridaPolitics.com he downplayed those references as largely metaphorical about hardball politics.

He also said the vengeance he promised against the Libertarian Party of Florida would be waived when the press release he wants is issued.

In the video he announcedhis William Tecumseh Sherman scorched-earth campaign against his enemies.

The antifa, the crooked cops, the Libertarian Party, the slanderers, the traitors, they all are finding out as we speak that my patience has run dry. I am setting fire to every goddamn thing in my path, he declared in the video. Nothing will satisfy my anger now.

Charging that they have involved his family, he warned, I will involve your families. I will attack your reputations. I will authorize my people to attack your events. I will let my people know where you live.

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