Republican Senator Threatens To Fight Teamsters Leader During Chaotic Hearing

Things got so heated during a Senate hearing on Tuesday that Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin actually threatened to fight Teamsters leader Sean O'Brien on the Senate floor. Mullin actually stood up and was ready to throw hands before Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders had to calm everyone down and get the hearing back on track. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this chaotic episode.

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Things got a little chaotic during a Senate hearing yesterday between Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen and a leader of the Teamsters Union. What happened was Mark Wayne Mullen was angry about things that the Teamsters leader had said about him in the past. And it got so heated that Mark Wayne Mullen literally challenged him to a fist fight on the floor of the Senate. Here is the exchange, and of course, you see at the end, Bernie Sanders, chairman of the committee basically has to break it up. But here it is.

Nobody knows this here. The last time him and I kinda had a back and forth. Uh, appreciate your demeanor today. It's quite different. But after you left here, you got pretty excited about the keyboard. In fact, you tweeted at me 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times and let me read what the last one said. Um, said greedy, CEO, who pretends like he's self-made. Sir, I wish he was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company. Myself and my wife was running the office because I sure remember working pretty hard and long hours. Pretends like he's self-made what a clown. Fraud always has been, always will be quick. The Tough Guy Act in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me? Any place, any anytime, cowboy. Sir, this is a time, this is a place. If you wanna run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here. Okay?

That's fine. Perfect.

You wanna do it now? I'd love to do it right now. Well stand your butt up then. You

Stand your butt up. Oh, hold it. Oh, stop it. Is that your solution? Every poll? No, no. Sit down. Sit down. Okay. You, no, you're a United States Senator. Sit down actively. Oh, okay. Okay. Sit down please. Alright, can I respond?

So that's now a thing that almost happened. Now, Mr. Sean O'Brien, the teamsters leader, of course, did say those things about Mark Wayne Mullen and Mark Wayne Mullen apparently being a soft and fragile individual did not take kindly to it. He was angry, so angry that he let his emotions get the best of him. Perhaps we shouldn't have so many emotional men who cannot control themselves running our federal government. I mean, that doesn't seem like a smart decision, but as Mark Wayne Mullen pointed out, right, he has all that money and all this success because he started a successful business. He was out there doing the plumbing. You know, you heard him say that his wife was running the office. I mean, the guy worked his off. Did he though? You see, Mr. Mullen, the great thing about the history of a lot of people that serve in Congress is that it's all available online.

And did you not think that people were actually gonna Google and find out how you did make your money? Because it turns out that yes, Mr. Mullen did in fact have a very successful plumbing business, and he used the profits off of that to make, you know, start several other businesses that, you know, he ran for a couple years before he then got elected to Congress first in 2013. Now, here we are 10 years later and he's just making millions and millions off businesses that he's not even an involved in. You're making tons of money off of other people's labor and you're not doing a thing. But back to the beginning of the plumbing business, right? So obviously he had to put in the hard work to make that business successful. I mean, it's not like his sick father just handed him an already successful business that somebody else had built, right? Actually, that's exactly what happened. Mark Wayne Mullen did not start that successful business. He was gifted it by his sick father.