Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), the former mixed martial arts fighter who challenged a labor leader to a brawl in the middle of a Senate hearing room Tuesday, says that there’s a long history of v…
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), the former mixed martial arts fighter who challenged a labor leader to a brawl in the middle of a Senate hearing room Tuesday, says that there’s a long history of violence in American politics, claiming in an interview: “You used to be able to cane.”
Mullin isn’t backing down or apologizing after his confrontation with Teamsters president Sean O’Brien at a Senate Health Committee hearing nearly came to blows, forcing Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to step in to break up the potential fight.
I was like, ‘I’m a guy from Oklahoma first.’ In Oklahoma, you don’t run your mouth like that and if you do run your mouth like that, you’re expected to be called out on it,” Mullin said about his heated exchange with O’Brien after the Teamsters official called the senator a “clown” and a “fraud” on Twitter.
Brooks came to his colleague’s defense by pummeling Sumner into a bloody mess, forcing him to miss work for extended periods of time over the next three years.
Brooks was later arrested and convicted of assault and fined $300 for his action, which Massachusetts Sen. Henry Wilson condemned as “brutal, murderous and cowardly.”
“You got to remember that President Andrew Jackson challenged nine guys to a duel and won nine times,” he said.
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), the former mixed martial arts fighter who challenged a labor leader to a brawl in the middle of a Senate hearing room Tuesday, says that there’s a long history of violence in American politics, claiming in an interview: “You used to be able to cane.”
Mullin isn’t backing down or apologizing after his confrontation with Teamsters president Sean O’Brien at a Senate Health Committee hearing nearly came to blows, forcing Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to step in to break up the potential fight.
I was like, ‘I’m a guy from Oklahoma first.’ In Oklahoma, you don’t run your mouth like that and if you do run your mouth like that, you’re expected to be called out on it,” Mullin said about his heated exchange with O’Brien after the Teamsters official called the senator a “clown” and a “fraud” on Twitter.
Brooks came to his colleague’s defense by pummeling Sumner into a bloody mess, forcing him to miss work for extended periods of time over the next three years.
Brooks was later arrested and convicted of assault and fined $300 for his action, which Massachusetts Sen. Henry Wilson condemned as “brutal, murderous and cowardly.”
“You got to remember that President Andrew Jackson challenged nine guys to a duel and won nine times,” he said.
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That middle paragraph threw me for a loop, I was like, “He did what now? Why isn’t that the headline?” Apparently, it skipped some context for that.
I mean, it is sort of consistent with the GQP’s intent to take America back to the 19th century, when knife fights broke out in congress.