On July 21st, 2026, NBC News reported that Republican Florida Congressman Cory Mills was under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice. Like virtually every federal investigation, this one began with a single suspect before expanding to include others. A government whistleblower who approached my campaign has confirmed that this investigation has expanded to include U.S. Congressman Byron Donalds, who along with Cory Mills, is under investigation for federal sex trafficking. Federal prosecutors are looking at two dates in question: May 17th, 2024, and November 19th, 2024, dates when Congressmen Mills and Donalds are said to have traveled to the MGM National Harbor—a luxury hotel resort in Oxon Hill, Maryland, where they solicited, procured, and paid women for explicit sexual acts. In the coming hours, Byron Donalds will call this investigation a “political attack.” It’s not. The Department of Justice, led by a Trump appointee of the same political party as Byron Donalds, is not investigating him for “political reasons.” They are investigating him because there is credible evidence that he committed a serious crime. My campaign was approached by a whistleblower who provided details that only someone with direct knowledge of a federal investigation could know. In fact, this whistleblower informed us that Cory Mills was under federal investigation before it was publicly reported by NBC News on July 21, 2026, as evidenced by this letter (attached) to the DOJ that was sent on July 20, 2026 that detailed the existence of the investigation into Cory Mills and Byron Donalds. My legal team has spent weeks attempting to independently verify this investigation, and we have done just that. For example, text messages (attached) sent from Cory Mills himself to a third party confirm that he and Congressman Byron Donalds were both at the MGM Harbor on both of the dates that are now the focus of federal prosecutors. Before I came here today, I tried every possible avenue to clear and exonerate Congressman Donalds, including reviewing a letter from a former federal prosecutor who asked the Department of Justice to confirm whether “any component of the Department of Justice is currently investigating or has investigated” Byron Donalds. And they refused to comment. They refused to do so despite clearing Florida Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of any criminal conduct in a letter just two weeks ago. Let me be crystal clear: Our Constitution entitles Congressmen Mills and Donalds to the presumption of innocence. But while they deserve that presumption, voters deserve transparency. I specifically gave Congressman Donalds the opportunity to make the fact he is under investigation public. But he chose not to. This is the first and last time I will discuss this publicly. My campaign will not run any television ads or mailers detailing any of this because this is not political. It's about transparency for Florida voters.