Republican senator claims video floating killing of journalists was a ‘joke’
by Richard Luscombe from US news | The Guardian on (#6WEXT)
Oklahoma's Markwayne Mullin downplays comments suggesting lawmakers could shoot journalists over disputes
The Republican US senator and Donald Trump loyalist Markwayne Mullin has evidently sought to backtrack from comments suggesting politicians could handle our differences" with journalists by shooting and killing them, insisting he was trying to make a joke.
The Oklahoma lawmaker, a former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, on Saturday posted to X a video of himself at a stairway in the US Capitol building recounting the tale of the newspaper columnist Charles Kincaid.
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