Washington – Sen. Markwayne MullinR-on., Suggested on X this weekend that journalists would write “fewer false stories” if violence was still used to manage disputes.
In the video, Published early SaturdayMullin is in the Capitol and tells how a journalist shooted and killed the representative William Taulbee there in 1890 a year after the departure of the Taulbee office.
“There are a lot of things we can say about journalists from the stories they write, but I bet they would write much less false stories – as President Trump says,” Fake News ” – if we could always manage our differences in this way,” said Mullin.
After Oklahoman has published a story about his comments, Mullin criticized his publication on x And said he joked.
“While you are there, don’t forget that I also joked the fact of bringing the caning back to settle political disputes,” wrote Mullin. “Thank you for watching my videos.”
“Imagine being a newspaper * that * Furcière with Oklahoma,” he continued, adding an image illustrating the republican voting record in the deep red state.
A Mullin spokesperson did not immediately respond to the request for comments on his video article on Sunday.
Mullin, a MMA veteran, has Make the headlines For having participated almost in a physical fight in 2023 with the president of Teamsters Union, Sean O’Brien, during a hearing in the Senate. While the men entered a verbal altercation, Mullin told O’Brien to “get up” and got up while Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Shouted to “arrest him”.
Mullin, a faithful ally of President Donald Trump, has been used for congress since 2013. He has already started in the House He was eperceived in the Senate in 2022.
The journalist who shot Taulbee in 1890, Charles Kincaid, was acquitted for self -defense, according to a Congress website.