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Markwayne Mullin: “President Trump I consider a friend and he is a funny human…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin | BRCC #326

Published October 30, 2024 | Video Starts at 23:12

I've only had the privilege of being around him a few times on the campaign trail. I've never gotten had the personal interaction like you have with, with President Trump. I have President Trump I consider a friend and he is a funny human being and someone that is genuinely caring. Someone that with his grandkids come in, he's giving them Cokes and candy and he's. And they just run in, they jump on his lap. (23:12–23:22)

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Asserts that Markwayne Mullin considers President Trump a friend and describes him as caring.

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“In the Senate, I'm the first Native American since 2005 to serve there.”
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“Right now we're running a $1.8 trillion deficit. Now we're spending $1.8 trillion more than we're bringing in.”
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“We're spending more on the national debt to service, not pay down, service national debt than we are in the military.”
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“The only time this has happened is when we've come out of a war like World War II.”
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“Bernie Marino in Ohio... He's up now by one point. Remember, Trump's up by 10 in Ohio.”
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“That puts us at 52 seats in the Senate.”
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“The election won't be called until probably Friday morning.”
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“They [the IRS and Department of Labor] didn't find a single thing.”
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“We could take municipalities that were non-compliant and make them compliant.”
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“We could take drill sites and recycle their waters.”
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“We had a patent pending on it [the water treatment process].”
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“The EPA changed the clean water drinking standard by less than 1%.”
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“Washington D.C. was never designed to fix your problems.”
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“Washington D.C. is supposed to be farther removed from anybody else.”
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“My company was audited by the IRS and the Department of Labor for three and a half years.”
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“It's the local politics that affects your daily lives.”
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“If people didn't understand that there was a huge difference between what school district you lived in, if your kids are going to go to…”
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“Local politics affects your lives more than what you realize. And Covid 100% exposed that.”
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“When local politics became national news, it forced Washington D.C. to take a position on it.”
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“President Trump was one of the first people to call me [after the incident with my son].”
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“For 18 months, [President Trump] called every single week and wanted to check on Jim.”
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“President Trump comes to Bakersfield, California, not really someplace he needs a campaign.”
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“Frontal lobe injury was central growth when you're an adolescent.”
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“Every week for 18 months, the President of the United States, even while he was going through the campaign, even after the campaign, even…”
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“If you need to know anything about President Trump, look at his kids, look at the way that they love him.”
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“Here, this guy that has a ton of things going on, but he's never too busy to remember family.”
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“Mainstream media, what they try to do is they try to scare you and run you off.”
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“They runt companies, they runt people's lives, because if you didn't agree with them, they would. They would X you out.”
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“That's what they're trying to do with Tim Chi and his businesses right now.”
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“In politics, it doesn't have to be real. In public, you can. You can sue for being slandered.”
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“When you're a public figure, especially a politician, it just has to be assumed.”
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“Mainstream media is... trying to get in your head and make you win. Because if they can't win on policy, they want to win by fear.”
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“I'm the first American from Oklahoma to serve since 1925.”
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“I never knew I was special for being Cherokee until I went to Washington, D.C. because where I'm from, everybody's Native American.”
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“I grew up always going to ihs, which is Indian Health Services.”
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“When I was first went to school, they taught Cherokee. I learned the Alphabet, the Cherokee Alphabet alongside the, you know, the English…”
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“A lot of tribes are getting very wealthy. Some are not. Some of the planes that are on res they're struggling which were hopefully to help…”
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“One tribe that does an excellent job with that is a Choctaws. Chief Batten, which is Choctaws is a wealthy tribe too.”
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“Congress doesn't control the purse strings anymore. There's zero chance we can control the purse strings.”
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“States have to balance their budget. They can't go in debt because they don't have a printing machine.”
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“States do line item appropriations and at the same time they also do line item veto.”
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“Congress has a really hard problem by overreacting. And we do it for political purposes instead of really thinking about the consequences.”
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“The way Congress has to appropriate dollars now is that we appropriate a budget to the agency, and each year, by the way, the agencies…”
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“We are spending $1.8 trillion above our budget, which is several trillion dollars to begin with.”
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“Right now we're spending almost a trillion dollars in debt every year.”
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