NEWS ALERT: Florida Republican blasts Speaker Johnson over committee appointments to Trump shooting investigation

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Some Republican lawmakers are ripping into House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday, accusing him of not appointing the best team to sit on a bipartisan committee to investigate the July 13 attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

The Republicans are accusing Speaker Johnson of “folding like a lawn chair,” and Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) is vowing to open his own investigation into the case.

The Hill first announced: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday announced the seven Republicans and six Democrats who will sit on the task force to investigate the assassination attempt against former President Trump.

The Republican chair of the panel will be Rep. Mike Kelly (Pa.), who represents Butler, Pa., where the shooting took place and was present in the front row during the rally. The Democratic ranking member will be Rep. Jason Crow (Colo.), a former Army Ranger and Bronze Star recipient who sits on the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees.

On the Republican side, the task force will also include Reps. Mark Green (Tenn.), the chair of the Homeland Security Committee; David Joyce (Ohio); Laurel Lee (Fla.); Michael Waltz (Fla.); Clay Higgins (La.); and Pat Fallon (Texas).

The five other Democratic appointees are Reps. Lou Correa (Calif.), Madeleine Dean (Pa.), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.), Glenn Ivey (Md.) and Jared Moskowitz (Fla.).

Johnson announced the Republican committee members in a series of X/Twitter posts:

Podcaster Benny Johnson announced:

SCOOP: Republican House Members are RAGING at Speaker Johnson for once again bowing to Democrats on Trump Assassination Task Force, choosing weak and unserious members:

‘No one has experience in counter sniper, motorcade, close protection or advance team operations.’

‘Not good’

GOP House Members are texting me: ‘This task force will get fooled by security state double-speak and not be allowed to seek the truth’

Text from Member of Republican Conference: “Johnson, per usual, folds like a cheap lawn chair”

Benny Johnson wrote in another post, “Complete and total bull that Eli Crane and Cory Mills are not on this. No members have done more to expose security failures that day than them.”

Mills replied, “It’s very unfortunate but not surprising for anyone familiar with how DC works. I’m not a politician, leadership, or a “yes man”. I wish the members of @SpeakerJohnson Task Force well, and think it’s time for a parallel independent investigation with subject matter experts (SME) and the whistleblowers who’ve already come forward that myself and @EliCrane_CEO and @bennyjohnson have spoken with.

“I will be speaking with other members, and although I won’t have subpoena powers, I will personally fund whatever is required for additional staff to further investigation and expose the truth.”

Rep. Cory Mills pledges to fund a “parallel independent investigation” into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, expressing disappointment at not being selected to sit on the task force to investigate the rally shooting.

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