{"id":1825461,"date":"2023-01-26T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825461"},"modified":"2023-01-26T16:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:37:52","slug":"house-republican-passes-out-grenades-to-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republican-passes-out-grenades-to-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican Passes Out Grenades To Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republican-passes-out-grenades-to-colleagues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825461&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A freshman House Republican kicks off the new Congress session with a bang.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Cory Mills (R.FL) gave out what he calls inert grenades, to mark his appointment to the committees charged with protecting national safety and security.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Phillips, Daily Mail reporter, shared a photo of one of these grenades on Thursday. It features the image and accompanying letter of the Republican Party&#8217;s elephant symbol.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoryMillsFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CoryMillsFL<\/a> House members are being given grenades <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/khJmDrYcFH\">pic.twitter.com\/khJmDrYcFH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Morgan Phillips (@_phillipsmorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_phillipsmorgan\/status\/1618648723764170753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcoming you to a mission-oriented 118th Congress. I am eager to get to work for the American people, and I look forward to working with you to deliver on this commitment. I am honored to be a part of the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees,\u201d Mills wrote in his letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that spirit, it is my pleasure to give you a 40 mm grenade, made for a MK19 grenade launcher. These are manufactured in the Sunshine State and first developed in the Vietnam War,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p>Mills also called upon his colleagues to \u201ccome together and get to work on behalf of our constituents\u201d The note stated that the grenades are inert.<\/p>\n<p>Mills spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/01\/26\/cory-mills-grenades-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed to The Washington Post<\/a> the contents of the photograph are legitimate and\u00a0stressed, \u201cthe grenades are inert, and were cleared through all security metrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills is an a <a href=\"https:\/\/mills.house.gov\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decorated U.S. Army combat veteran<\/a> A businessman who was appointed by former President Donald Trump to the Pentagon defense advisory board. He\u00a0ran a successful campaign to represent Florida\u2019s 7th Congressional District in the 2022 election.<\/p>\n<p>Mills, who mocked the campaign during its run, made headlines. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e7OH3e2hXh0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cliberal media\u201d for \u201ccrying\u201d<\/a> His company PACEM Solutions sold riot munitions and tear gas to law enforcement. <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/gop-hopeful-sold-tear-gas-192514524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter demonstrators<\/a> Others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A freshman House Republican is starting out the new session of Congress with a bang. Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) passed out what he says are inert grenades to colleagues, marking his appointment to committees charged with protecting national security. Daily Mail reporter Morgan Phillips shared a photo Thursday of one of the grenades, which features &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1825464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4272,16625,3653,5448,3911],"class_list":["post-1825461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-colleagues","tag-grenades","tag-house","tag-passes","tag-republican"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}