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'You're a piece of s**t': Nancy Mace and Cory Mills clash in heated exchange after failed censure
Florida Rep. Cory Mills (R) evaded another censure effort Wednesday night, but not without some heated criticism from a Republican colleague.
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina forced a censure vote on Mills Wednesday over "alleged stolen valor, arms deals he's under investigation for and alleged abuses toward women." Mace also went after Mills after a handful of Republicans blocked the censure of Democrat Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, who colluded with Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing.
'The more we learn about this guy and his purported activities, the worse it is.'
Mace alleged that Plaskett's censure failed because Mills cut a "backroom deal" to suppress his own censure. Similar allegations were made toward Mills back in September when he was the deciding vote to protect Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's censure for the insensitive comments she made following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
"Another backroom deal so Cory Mills can’t get censored [sic] for Stolen Valor," Mace said in a post on X. "I have the General who 'recommended' him for the Bronze Star on record saying he never wrote it, never read it and never personally signed it. This. Is. Washington."
The two Republicans reportedly had a heated exchange on the House floor Wednesday night, with Mace calling Mills a "disgrace" and mouthing the words, "You're a piece of s**t."
Mace later addressed these outbursts in a post on X, saying the real scandal is Mills' track record.
"While Rep. Cory Mills is worried about my 'mean' words on the Floor last night — I'm worried about our national security and what sort of arms deals he or his companies have with foreign countries. I'm worried about how court records show he abuses women and had to have a restraining order set against him for it. I'm worried about how stealing the stories of other soldiers constitutes STOLEN VALOR and spits in the faces of veterans who gave it all Hold your tongue and sit this one out Mr. Mills."
The censure vote ultimately failed 310-103, with 204 Republicans and 106 Democrats defending Mills.
Only eight Republicans — Reps. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Kat Cammack of Florida, Joe Wilson of South Carolina, and Mace — voted to advance the censure measure.
Although the censure failed, Mace still called the effort a win.
"Last night was a win with either outcome of the vote," Mace said in a post on X. "Now the Left can't do any more backroom deals with Mills or use Mills as a bargaining chip whenever a Republican moves to censure another. And his investigation has been formally referred to an Ethics Subcommittee."
"However, I pray leadership will remove Mills from his committees until Ethics is done with Mills. The more we learn about this guy and his purported activities, the worse it is."
Blaze News reached out to Mills' office for comment.
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'Backroom deal': Nancy Mace to force a vote on Cory Mills after Republicans shield Epstein-texting Democrat
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is leading the charge to censure her GOP colleague Rep. Cory Mills of Florida.
Mace will force a vote to censure Mills Wednesday night after she alleged the Florida congressman dodged a similar censure effort Tuesday night by cutting a deal with Democrats.
'The swamp protects itself.'
A handful of Republicans broke from their party and prevented Democratic Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands from being censured after the House Oversight Committee revealed documents that she had colluded with Jeffrey Epstein by texting with him during a 2019 congressional hearing.
Since the censure vote failed, Mace and some of her GOP colleagues have alleged that Plaskett's protection was secured in exchange for the suppression of Mills' own censure.
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"Another backroom deal so Cory Mills can’t get censored [sic] for Stolen Valor," Mace said in a post on X. "I have the General who 'recommended' him for the Bronze Star on record saying he never wrote it, never read it and never personally signed it. This. Is. Washington."
"The Plaskett censure failed because house leadership exchanged that censure failure for the withdrawal of a vote to censure and refer Cory Mills to house ethics for investigation," Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida said in a post on X. "The swamp protects itself."
Mace is looking to censure Mills over a string of scandals, including "alleged stolen valor, arms deals he's under investigation for and alleged abuses toward women." Blaze News first reported on some of these allegations.
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This is not the first time Mills has been accused of cutting backroom deals with Democrats.
In September, Mills was the deciding vote that prevented the House from censuring Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) over a series of insensitive comments she made following Charlie Kirk's vicious assassination. Mills claimed that while he abhorred Omar's views, she had a First Amendment right to express them.
At the same time, reports suggested that Mills protected Omar to squelch his own censure in the House.
Mills' office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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'Swamp protects itself': Republicans shield Epstein-texting Democrat — allegedly to save Cory Mills' hide
A handful of Republican lawmakers joined forces with their colleagues across the aisle on Tuesday to shield Democratic House Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands from consequence over her involvement with infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Critics have suggested that Republicans spared Plaskett as part of a "back end deal" to save Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), yet another humiliation.
'The Plaskett censure failed because house leadership exchanged that censure failure for the withdrawal of a vote to censure and refer Cory Mills.'
Among the over 20,000 pages of damning Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee last week were numerous text messages between the dead sex offender and Plaskett.
While the documents show Jeffrey Epstein was evidently on speaking terms with numerous Democrats after his 2008 felony conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, his text messages with Plaskett proved particularly controversial as they appeared to show that he influenced the delegate's behavior while she was conducting official business in Congress.
Epstein and Plaskett were exchanging messages during disgraced former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's testimony to the House Oversight Committee in February 2019. At one point, Epstein — who was evidently watching the hearing remotely — alerted Plaskett to Cohen's mention of former Trump executive assistant Rhona Graff and suggested she was the "keeper of the secrets."
"RONA??" responded Plaskett. "Quick I’m up next is that an acronym."
"Thats [sic] his assistant," said the sex offender.
Plaskett's office characterized the exchange as a politician simply fielding inputs from the public in hopes of getting "at the truth." South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman (R) and others alternatively recognized Plaskett's apparent efforts to coordinate her line of questioning with Epstein as a form of inappropriate collusion with a convicted sex offender.
Norman introduced a House resolution on Tuesday not only to censure and condemn Plaskett but to remove the Democrat from the House Intelligence Committee "for conduct that reflects discreditably on the House of Representatives for colluding with convicted felony sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing."
Censures have become fairly routine in recent years, and it's hardly unprecedented to remove a lawmaker from a committee.
For instance, in 2021, 11 nominal Republicans joined with House Democrats to strip Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) of her committee assignments over comments found to be too incendiary. The same year, Democrats joined then-Republican Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming in approving a resolution to censure Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar (R) and strip him of his committee assignments over a provocative social media post.
Republicans showed a united front in 2023 when they voted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) off the Foreign Affairs Committee over her criticism of Israel and perceived lack of objectivity.
In addition to noting that Plaskett's relationship with Epstein stands at odds with her carefully constructed public image as a "defender of justice and accountability," Norman's resolution states that:
Plaskett's willingness to receive instructions on official congressional proceedings from Epstein, a convicted felony sex offender with deeply concerning international associations, is especially alarming and inappropriate given her own past service in the U.S. Department of Justice and her current role on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and raises serious questions about Delegate Plaskett’s judgment, integrity, and fitness to serve.
Plaskett said in her defense on the House floor, "I know how to question individuals. I know how to seek information. I have sought information from confidential informants, from murderers, from other individuals because I want the truth."
The House voted 214-209 against censuring Plaskett on Tuesday night.
'The American people DO know what happened here!'
Joining the 211 Democrats who voted against Norman's resolution were three Republicans: Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Lance Gooden of Texas, and Dave Joyce of Ohio.
Another three Republican congressmen voted "present": Andrew Garbarino of New York, Daniel Meuser of Pennsylvania, and Jay Obernolte of California.
"The House failed to pass my censure of Dem. Stacey Plaskett, a sitting member of Congress who took direction from Epstein in the middle of a 2019 Oversight Committee hearing," Norman said in an X post after the vote. "This is the problem in Washington!! The establishment protects ITSELF, and the American people get pushed ASIDE."
Norman added, "What happened to accountability?"
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) similarly expressed revulsion over the failure by some of her peers to hold Plaskett accountable, writing, "Members of the House Intelligence Committee are supposed to be held to the highest standards of integrity, independence, and protection of our nation’s classified information — not communicating with known sexual predators during a committee hearing."
"It's disgusting our conference couldn't come together to remove Jeffrey Epstein's puppet off of the Intelligence Committee," continued Boebert. "I'm calling on the Department of Justice to investigate into Delegate Plaskett's relationship with Jeffery [sic] Epstein."
Some Republicans have suggested that elements of their party spoiled the vote as part of a deal with Democrats.
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) noted on the House floor, "I was wondering if the speaker of the House of Representatives can explain why leadership on both sides, both Democrat and Republican, are cutting back-end deals to cover up public corruption in the House of Representatives for both Democrat and Republican members of Congress."
Luna clarified her meaning on X, writing, "The Plaskett censure failed because house leadership exchanged that censure failure for the withdrawal of a vote to censure and refer Cory Mills to house ethics for investigation. The swamp protects itself."
Boebert responded, "The American people DO know what happened here!"
In retaliation for the effort to censure Plaskett, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) revived her resolution to censure Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) and remove him from the Armed Service Committee on Tuesday. Axios indicated that the revival of the censure resolution made it a "privileged motion" enabling Clarke to bypass the Republican leadership and force a vote.
A spokesperson for Mills did not respond to Axios' request for comment.
With Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and possibly other Republicans also willing to vote for the measure, it's unclear whether the vote would have gone in Mills' favor — but Democrats spared him from finding out, moving to withdraw the censure vote after Republicans helped kill the Plaskett censure effort.
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Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida was one of the four GOP lawmakers to block the censure of Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Although Mills publicly argued that he was simply voting to protect Omar's First Amendment rights, reports indicate that there may have been a deeper motive.
Following Charlie Kirk's horrific assassination, Omar let out a slew of insensitive comments that sparked outrage among conservatives. As a result, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a resolution to censure Omar, which would formally condemn the Democrat and strip her of her committee assignments.
'Ilhan Omar mocked the cold-blooded assassination of an innocent American husband and father.'
Mace's resolution narrowly failed 214-213 in a procedural vote Wednesday night, with Mills casting the deciding vote.
Republican Reps. Mike Flood of Nebraska, Jeff Hurd of Colorado, and Tom McClintock of California joined Mills in voting against Omar's censure.
"Ilhan Omar mocked the cold-blooded assassination of an innocent American husband and father," Mace said in a post on X. "She’s supported ISIS. She’s supported the Muslim Brotherhood. She’s incited political violence. And tonight, Congress protected her."
Mills' decisive vote comes as Axios reported that House Democrats were pushing a retaliatory censure against him unless Omar's censure was tanked. Democrat Rep. Greg Casar of Texas, who filed the censure against Mills, later confirmed to Axios that he now intends to withdraw the resolution.
RELATED: Ilhan Omar mocks Trump and others for praising Charlie Kirk: 'These people are full of s**t!'
Mills is facing a slew of allegations reported by Blaze News, including accusations of sextortion, financial misconduct, and stolen valor, all of which he has denied. There have also been questions raised about Mills' faith after he was found to have been married by a radical Islamic cleric at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, which has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
When approached for a comment regarding his decisive vote protecting Omar, Mills' spokeswoman, Jillian Anderson, told Blaze News she was "not available."
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