Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) tried to make a point about crime in Washington, D.C. — but critics are focusing on mistake he repeated instead.
During a Fox News interview on Wednesday, Mullin was seemingly unaware of the identity of Muriel Bowser, the mayor of the nation’s capital, as he continued to use male pronouns to describe her.
“The left media, and the leaders in Washington, D.C., especially — and I will say this — the very racist mayor, and people may get eyebrows when I raise that, but he’s the one that brings in race into the conversation,” Mullin said on the “The Ingraham Angle.”
“So he’s the one that’s pointing the fingers at it, and when you point one finger, you got three pointing right back at you. But for him to say that, and flat out lie to the American people, he