Thread by @willchamberlain

Yesterday, Rep. Cory Mills (@RepMillsPress) voted against censuring Ilhan Omar for suggesting Charlie Kirk was to blame for his own murder.

Rep. Mills must resign. He has a conflict of interest and cannot represent his constituents faithfully.

A thread.

Ilhan Omar is loathed by Republican voters, and her comments about Charlie were beyond the pale. This should have been straightforward.

But Rep. Mills claimed that First Amendment concerns guided his vote - and implied that Charlie himself would agree.

One doubts that this is Rep. Mills' actual rationale. For one, Nancy Mace claims that he threatened her over text last night. (Rep. Mace authored the censure resolution against Omar.) Hard to imagine he cares about Ilhan Omar *that much*. So what's really going on here?

Well, Axios reported yesterday before the vote that Democrats had a simple plan to stop Omar from being censured: threaten to censure Rep. Mills in return.

Mr. Mills has a lot of scandals - all of which have been publicly reported on. Perhaps he was worried that a censure resolution would give those scandals new oxygen. So let's go through the censure resolution and talk about what Mr. Mills might have been afraid of.

First, the censure resolution alleges that Rep. Mills assaulted his girlfriend in February of this year.

Public reporting on this is pretty damning. Police responded to a disturbance call at Mills' DC Penthouse, and found Mills' girlfriend in the lobby "physically shaking and scared" and with "bruises on her arm which appeared fresh."

Mills' girlfriend later retracted her statements, and Mills wasn't charged. But this incident had a number of other ramifications: first, it revealed that Mills was still married (which his staff was unaware of).

It also led to Mills' other girlfriend - Lindsey Langston, a former Miss United States - to break up with him.

Rep. Mills apparently did not take this well, and threatened to publish revenge porn of her if she were to start dating someone else.

Reporting from the Blaze is, again, damning. According to texts reviewed by the Blaze Mills repeatedly threatened to release sexual videos of Langston.

Finally, there are allegations of stolen valor.

The censure resolution focuses on one specific issue: allegations that Mills lied about the events related to his Bronze Star.

But there's more on the stolen valor front.

In his application to work for DynCorp, a military contractor similar to Blackwater, Rep. Mills claimed that he was an Army Ranger. This was false.

After one incident involving military contractors, Dyncorp demanded (at the request of the State Department) that employees substantiate the claims in their resumes. His colleagues said that in lieu of this, he simply left his gear on his bed and walked off the job.

Mr. Mills also claimed that he had been to a military sniper school, but his colleagues who went through DynCorp training with him said he did not have the basic understanding of sniper practice that any graduate of those schools would have.

Mr. Mills also claimed that he had been "blown up" twice in Iraq, including in his campaign videos. However, the in the second incident he apparently based this claim on, he was not in the vehicle that was hit by an IED and suffered no injuries.

And this is not even the end of the scandals involving Rep. Mills. There's also the fact that he was married by a radical Islamist cleric, and serious allegations that he converted to Islam around the time of said marriage.

To sum up: Mr. Mills is clearly operating under a conflict of interest. His constituents certainly wanted Ilhan Omar censured. And yet he was 1 of only 4 Republicans to vote against @RepNancyMace's resolution, and threatened Rep. Mace to boot - clearly to avoid personal consequences.

When lawyers operate under a conflict of interest, and put their own personal interests ahead of their client's, they can be disbarred. The analogy works here.

In fact, for the purposes of whether he should resign, it almost doesn't matter whether any or all of the above allegations are true (though as the attached screenshots suggest, they are quite well-substantiated). What matters is that they are creating an irreconcilable tension between Rep. Mills' personal interests and the interests of his voters, making him incapable of representing them faithfully. And this is not a hypothetical conflict; Rep. Mills vote last night makes it clear that this is a severe, actual conflict of interest.

Rep. Mills must do the honorable thing and resign.

I couldn't have put together this thread without the incredible investigative reporting done by @TheBlaze. They deserve enormous credit for their brave work, and you should subscribe - $5 a month is nothing.

My sources are all in this thread.

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