{"id":38117,"date":"2025-04-07T14:38:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/republican-senator-claims-video-floating-killing-of-journalists-was-a-joke\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:38:53","slug":"republican-senator-claims-video-floating-killing-of-journalists-was-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/republican-senator-claims-video-floating-killing-of-journalists-was-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican senator claims video floating killing of journalists was a \u2018joke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma\u2019s Markwayne Mullin downplays comments suggesting lawmakers could shoot journalists over disputes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/07\/donald-trump-tariffs-foreign-governments-markets-fall-netanyahu-white-house-us-politics-latest-updates-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> US senator and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> loyalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/23\/markwayne-mullin-trump-third-term-constitution\">Markwayne Mullin<\/a> has evidently sought to backtrack<strong> <\/strong>from comments suggesting politicians could \u201chandle our differences\u201d with journalists by shooting and killing them, insisting he was trying to make a joke.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma lawmaker, a former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, on Saturday posted to X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenMullin\/status\/1908369627580596253\">a video of himself<\/a> at a stairway in the US Capitol building recounting the tale of the newspaper columnist Charles Kincaid.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/07\/markwayne-mullin-journalists-violence-comments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma\u2019s Markwayne Mullin downplays comments suggesting lawmakers could shoot journalists over disputes US politics live \u2013 latest updates The Republican US senator and Donald Trump loyalist Markwayne Mullin has evidently sought to backtrack from comments suggesting politicians could \u201chandle our differences\u201d with journalists by shooting and killing them, insisting he was trying to make a &#8230; <a title=\"Republican senator claims video floating killing of journalists was a \u2018joke\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/republican-senator-claims-video-floating-killing-of-journalists-was-a-joke\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republican senator claims video floating killing of journalists was a \u2018joke\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}