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A congressman's ex got a protective order against him. His boss has little to say about it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/18/cory-mills-florida-costa-rica-abortion-virginia-giuffreArwa Mahdawi
This isn’t the first time Cory Mills has faced allegations of misconduct – but the House speaker wants to talk about ‘serious’ things
Beginning with a recitation of some of the evil things Cory Mills is alleged to have done -
- violence and threats against multiple sexual partners
- failure to pay rent (20,000/month) on a home in DC (and he makes $174,000/year!)
- holding military contracts with the US while also being US congress-critter
Followed with:
We hear all the time about how the GOP is the party of law and order and family values. What, you might be wondering, do Mills’s colleagues have to say about all his run-ins with the law? Not much!
“You have to ask Representative Mills about that,” said Mike Johnson, the House speaker, when asked about the allegations against Mills this week. “He’s been a faithful colleague here. I know his work on the Hill. I don’t know all the details … Let’s talk about things that are really serious.”
Yes, let’s talk about things that are really serious, shall we? Because clearly being investigated for allegedly assaulting one girlfriend and then allegedly threatening to release sexual videos of another girlfriend aren’t serious at all. Certainly nothing that might disqualify someone from being a politician in a country that is led by an adjudicated sexual predator.
From Matt Gaetz to Mills to Pete Hegseth to Roy Moore, the list of people in Trump’s orbit accused of sexual misconduct seems to grow by the day. And yet, funnily enough, a common theme among Republican men accused of sexual misconduct is that it’s trans people who are the real threat to women. “We must stop the lefts attack on women,” Mills wrote on X in 2022. “We must stand to protect women from biological males competing unfairly,” Mills wrote in another X post. If Mills is what Republicans “protecting” women looks like, I think I’ll pass.
“You have to ask Representative Mills about that,” said Mike Johnson, the House speaker, when asked about the allegations against Mills this week. “He’s been a faithful colleague here. I know his work on the Hill. I don’t know all the details … Let’s talk about things that are really serious.”
Yes, let’s talk about things that are really serious, shall we? Because clearly being investigated for allegedly assaulting one girlfriend and then allegedly threatening to release sexual videos of another girlfriend aren’t serious at all. Certainly nothing that might disqualify someone from being a politician in a country that is led by an adjudicated sexual predator.
From Matt Gaetz to Mills to Pete Hegseth to Roy Moore, the list of people in Trump’s orbit accused of sexual misconduct seems to grow by the day. And yet, funnily enough, a common theme among Republican men accused of sexual misconduct is that it’s trans people who are the real threat to women. “We must stop the lefts attack on women,” Mills wrote on X in 2022. “We must stand to protect women from biological males competing unfairly,” Mills wrote in another X post. If Mills is what Republicans “protecting” women looks like, I think I’ll pass.
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