Controversial statement
US senator supports violence against journalists
07.04.2025 – 04:50 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
A US Senator and Trump admirer means good violence against journalists in a video. It is not the first failure of the Republican.
There is currently hardly a twist from the Trump camp that does not hit high waves. The proposal that the Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin has now made ensures a lot of outrage in the USA. At the weekend, Mullin published a contribution to X, in which he supported violence against journalists. Less fakews would be spread, said the MP from the US state of Oklahoma if violence was used.
In a video that he posted at X in the early Saturday, Mullin is in the captain in Washington, DC and tells how a reporter shot the MP William Toulbee there in 1890, a year after he was divorced from office. “There is a lot of what we can say about reporters and the stories they write, but I bet they would write much less false stories – as President Trump says ‘fake news’ – if we could still carry out our differences in this way,” says Mullin in the post.
After Mulllin made his statement about journalists, the video shows the stairs of the Capitol in the video, on which the traces of blood can be seen, then the recording ends. The video has been viewed more than 26,000 times by Sunday afternoon and received more than 2,100 “likes”. According to the newspaper “The Oklahamon”, a spokesman for Mulllin’s office has not yet answered questions about the statements of the senator.
Mullin later claimed that the publication on X was just a joke. “If you are already there, do not forget that I also wrote about the reintroduction of the bruise to add up political disputes,” wrote Mullin at X. “Thank you for viewing my videos.”
Mullin is considered a glowing trump trailer. He had caused a sensation in 2023 when he rose from his chair at a hearing in the US Senate and threatened the union leader Sean O ‘Brien. He later defended his outbreak of anger in the conservative TV station Fox News.
The recent remarks of Mullin are falling into a time when verbal attacks against journalists in the United States are becoming increasingly common. According to an analysis by reporter without borders, US President Trump alone “insulted, threatened or attacked” between September 1 and October 24, 2024 in campaign speeches. The International Center for Journalists found that 27 percent of the Americans surveyed last year, “they have often seen or heard that a journalist was threatened, harassed or misused”.
