On this date in 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”posted profiles of the U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, who we noted was a Birther conspiracy theorist, having entertained the ramblings of a constituent about President Obama’s birth certificate at a town hall, saying he agreed with them that it was fraudulent, but didn’t feel anything could be done about it.
Mullin is also noteworthy for voting against disaster relief funding for Hurricane Sandy while having the double standard of wanting federal aid whenever a tornado hits Oklahoma. Mullin also claims America’s food stamp program has widespread fraud because he has personally witnessed “physically fit people using food stamps”. Mullin has not only voted against every opportunity to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but has also directly lied to constituents by telling them the healthcare exchanges had not opened, when they were. Lastly, Mullin was also one of the GOP’s members on the Benghazi Select Committee, having called for numerous investigations into the attacks, never being satisfied with previous ones that have all concluded there was no malfeasance of culpability by the Obama administration.
As a member of the House, Rep. Mullin voted to defund Planned Parenthood, tried to pass legislation to prevent the acceptance of Muslim refugees, and when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was allowed to speak before Congress, Mullin went on Twitter to post a misspelled message of support, “God Bless Isreal”.
In 2017, Mullin has had some tense standoffs with constituents, including a town hall where he declared the anger he faced was “bullcrap” and whining that his appearance was a “service” because “no one paid him to be there”. Only three months before the 2018 election, he was found guilty of campaign finance violations after an ethics investigation and forced to pay back $40,000, and was investigated for investing in the same businesses that Rep. Chris Collins did and led to him being indicted for insider trading.
Did we also mention that a week before the election, Mullin, who himself is of Native American heritage, mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren for her own, and then insinuated that the Trail of Tears was actually a “volunteer walk”?
But let us not forget what other stupid things Markwayne Mullin had to say on January 6th, during the attack on the Capitol Building by Trump supporters staging a violent crew and hunting for specific Democratic members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence to murder them. You see, Mullin had already spent weeks contributing to “The Big Lie”, as we documented, so he was potentially culpable, and someone might just say he’s a seditious prick who has no place in America’s politics. That makes it little surprise that he had the gall to blame “both sides” for the attack:
”We all (have responsibility),” he said. “The media has responsibility, the Republicans have responsibility, the Democrats have responsibility. Those who post the most ridiculous things on social media … have responsibility. No one is to blame here. We are all to blame.”
We should also note that against the wishes of the State Department, Pentagon, and intelligence community, and all reason, in September of 2021, Markwayne Mullin attempted to sneak into Afghanistan for reasons that remain unclear, although he insisted he had someone he wanted to sneak out of the country before the return of the Taliban to power (courtesy of Donald Trump abandoning our allies there and signing an agreement to pull out the U.S. Military). Mullin never apologized for hurling insults at several diplomats, and when word went public about his behavior he responded, “I’m not Rambo…”
Which, isn’t the best reference, since in his third movie, Rambo fought alongside the Mujahdeen.
Bottom line, Markwayne Mullin is still a seditious idiot. He is, now, regrettably a U.S. Senator, winning the special election to replace James Inhofe in 2022. Now his stupidity can permeate the upper chamber of the legislative branch, as well.
Just… just great.