Washington, D.C. – This morning, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) participated in the Trump administration’s 22nd bipartisan briefing on Capitol Hill regarding counter narcotic operations in U.S. Southern Command. Following the classified briefing, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Senator Mullin slammed Democrats and members of the media for their selective outrage and blatant hypocrisy of the Trump Administration’s strikes on narco-terrorist boats in the Caribbean. Highlights below.
Sen. Mullin’s full remarks can be found here.
A one-minute clip, as shared online by the White House, is available here.
On the media’s blatant hypocrisy:
“Underneath Obama, he had [over] 500 strikes, 3700 different individuals were killed. There wasn’t a big show about this… these are drug terrorist organizations, the same people that Obama went after, the same people we’ve been after for the last 24 years, were terrorist organizations that were wanting to kill Americans.”
“Does anybody doubt that these are terrorist organizations? Does anybody have a question about these being terrorist organizations? So what’s the difference between Obama attacking these individuals when they were deemed terrorist organizations in the Middle East versus the ones that are here right now poisoning our streets?”
On the reason classified information is kept to the relevant committees of jurisdiction:
“Because there are a lot of members that’s going to walk out of there, that’s going to leak classified information… Do you think Omar needs have all this information? I will say no.”
On the transparency of the Trump Administration:
“This administration has been highly transparent, a lot more transparent than the Obama administration, the Biden administration, on all this stuff. And for you guys to be all upset about it, I’ll repeat myself, the only reason why this is a thing is because the hemisphere to which they’re operating in, because no one threw a big fit about this when it was happening in the Middle East.”
On the future of strikes in the Caribbean:
“As long as there are still boats poisoning our streets, coming to our sounds, dropping the drugs off, they’re going to continue these strikes.”
On military assets in the Caribbean:
“We have our aircraft carriers operating in our hemisphere now… I like the idea that they’re right here… I love the idea that we have these assets right around here, makes me feel cozy when I sleep at night.”
On the inescapable drug crisis:
“I will do anything to protect my family… They’re bringing poison into our streets… Everybody here has been affected by someone that has been affected by drug overdose.”
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