Oklahoma Senator says he was joking about using violence against journalists

Oklahoma Senator says he was joking about using violence against journalists

Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma suggested in a video posted this weekend that lot "less false stories" would be written by journalists if they got into physical altercations with politicians.

Republican senator claims video floating killing of journalists was a ‘joke’

Oklahoma’s Markwayne Mullin downplays comments suggesting lawmakers could shoot journalists over disputesUS politics live – latest updatesThe 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 (MM…

GOP senator believes violence is antidote to ‘fake news’

Oklahoma’ Sen. Markwayne Mullin began his diatribe by alluding to the historical shooting of Kentucky Congressman William Taulbee by news reporter Charles Kincaid in 1890

Republican senator floats using violence against journalists who report 'fake news'

Markwayne Mullin recounted how a reporter fatally shot a former congressman in 1890, adding there might be less "fake news ... if we could still handle our differences that way."