Roger Stone, one of President Donald Trump’s longest-serving and most trusted advisers, devoted the better part of an hour on his radio show April 19 to a takedown of Florida Congressman Cory Mills.
Stone predicted Mills, a fellow Republican, will be expelled from Congress this week, as will Democratic Florida House member Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, after the resignations of Congressmen Tony Gonzales of Texas and Eric Swalwell of California in the previous week.
Trump endorsed Mills Feb. 10, despite a long list of scandals reported in The News-Journal and other media outlets both from the left, including Mother Jones, and right, The Blaze. While
Stone appeared intent on drawing his listeners to stories of Mills’ ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation, the Washington, D.C., assault investigation involving Mills and a girlfriend, the no-contact restraining order a different former girlfriend convinced a judge to issue against the congressman and more.
“I submit to you that Cory Mills makes Eric Swalwell look like Mother Teresa,” Stone said.
Mills didn’t respond to an April 19 text message seeking a response.
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On his show broadcast on WABC-AM in New York, Stone — a South Florida resident — said he visited with Trump in Washington, D.C., last week, although he did not say whether he discussed Mills with the president.
Stone dismissed any concerns about Mills joining Gonzales and Swalwell in departing the House, or losing Florida’s 7th Congressional District to a Democrat, despite Navy Reserve Capt. Bale Dalton outraising Mills by a 4-to-1 margin since entering the race.
“Cory Mills should definitely be on this list. There is a self-funding, very wealthy 100% MAGA standing in the wings, ready to file for the seat, to represent the Trump America First agenda,” Stone said without identifying the potential contender.
Two other Republicans have filed to challenge Mills: Army veteran and former Department of Defense employee Michael Johnson of Altamonte Springs and Port Orange businesswoman Sarah Ulrich.
Roger Stone and author of Cory Mills report discuss mosque wedding
Stone introduced a researcher he called “C.J.,” adding that her research was sanctioned by a Palm Beach Republican club.
“We’re not going to tell you her real identity because Cory Mills is known for violence,” Stone said, “and we don’t want to put her life at risk, but she is among the most known and respected researchers in the country who’s worked for many famous people and institutions.”
Stone said C.J.’s report “will curl your ears.”
C.J. said the allegations against Mills are “voluminous,” and she had a difficult time deciding where to start. “I decided to go with level of audacity,” and she started with Mills’ 2014 marriage in the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Virginia to Rana Al-Saadi, an Iraqi immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen.
The ceremony was performed by the late imam and Islamic cleric Mohammed Al-Hanooti, whom, C.J. noted, was on an FBI list of unindicted conspirators to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center that killed six people.
“Cory Mills has made a career of saying that he got the Bronze Star and he had a lot of service to his country. And we are to believe that in 2014 he did not know of Al-Hanooti’s presence, of what his beliefs were? He did not know that was tied into a mosque … that has political ties to Islamic extremists?”
Stone interrupted her to ask: “If he chose to get married by an imam in a mosque, is it reasonable for us to presume that at the time, he was a Muslim?”
C.J. called that a “fair question” and said it would be reasonable to assume the same if a man got married in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, one could draw the conclusion that he’s Catholic.
But Mills has previously denied claims that he converted to Islam, and has said he is a Christian. He has also said he has been separated from Al-Saadi, who was also a business partner, for several years and they were in the process of divorcing.
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C.J. referred to the Feb. 19, 2025, investigation by Washington, D.C., Metro Police at Mills’ home involving a live-in girlfriend, Sarah Raviani.
A police report said she initially told them Mills used his hands/feet during an assault, but she later said bruising on her arms had been caused by “medical conditions like eczema and activities from my recent trip to Dubai,” and said she had been drinking on a flight home the night before, which added to the “emotionally charged” situation.
Mills denied “any wrongdoing whatsoever,” according to a statement.
No arrest was made after Raviani “recanted,” C.J. said.
She later noted Raviani recently gave birth, and that the father is not known.
“What’s sad about this thing … is Cory Mills a new dad?” C.J. told Stone. “It’s just such a sordid situation when it should be a new mother’s exciting time.”
C.J. also raised the restraining order issued by a Columbia County judge against Mills. Lindsey Langston, a former Mills’ live-in girlfriend, said after she learned about the existence of Raviani through the news stories about the assault investigation, she broke up with Mills, later begging him to stop contacting her.
Langston, who had been crowned Miss United States, testified last fall Mills messaged or phoned her some 11 times after that, and threatened to release intimate videos she had shared with him while they were together.
Mills said he no longer had the video and testified he thought the two were attempting a reconciliation, but Judge Fred Koberlein, Jr., said Mills’ explanation of the exchanges “was difficult to comprehend and for the most part incomprehensible.” He ordered no contact between Mills and Langston in mid-October until Jan. 1.
Stone’s show covers stolen valor allegations, ethics concerns
Stone mentioned his concern about stolen-valor accusations that have followed Mills, who served in the U.S. Army from 1999 to 2003.
“Stolen valor to me is among the most egregious things,” Stone said.
His guest, C.J., recounted one of the accusations that have been leveled at Mills: that he or someone lied about his actions during the 2003 war in Iraq in order to retroactively earn a Bronze Star medal in 2021.
The paperwork submitted for him to earn the medal, known as a Form 638, stated he dramatically saved the lives of three men on the battlefield, but none recounted Mills’ involvement, C.J. noted. Meanwhile, the retired brigadier general, Arnold N.G. Bray, whose signature is on the Form 638, told Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina and others that he didn’t sign the paperwork.
“Stolen valor is a very serious accusation,” C.J. told Stone. “An official inquiry should be made into whether or not (Mills) deserves the Bronze Star.”
She noted that an affiliate of Mills’ former company, PACEM LLC, was being sued by a Canadian lender for some $66 million in unpaid loans. C.J. said Mills has made “questionable choices” and has been “operating in a gray zone.”
Stone said he understands House Speaker Mike Johnson has a “delicate balance” with the narrow majority of Republicans (217) versus Democrats (213), with four vacancies and one independent, but recognizes the importance of expelling Mills.
“There is no danger of losing a seat unless Cory Mills is the Republican nominee,” Stone said. “You can be absolutely sure that all of this information, which is in the public domain, will be used in a campaign against him.
“Only thing I want to say to Cory Mills,” Stone said, “is hasta la vista.”
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Trump confidant Stone says Cory Mills will be removed from Congress
Reporting by Mark Harper, Daytona Beach News-Journal / The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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