Targeting Epstein's 'sweetheart' deal, Senate Republican forgets who was president in 2008

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to rope Barack Obama into Donald Trump's Jeffrey Epstein scandal. It went horribly awry.

Republicans like to (a) smear Obama in ridiculous ways; (b) pretend Dems were in the White House during GOP administrations; and (c) deflect Epstein scandal blame.

Leave it to Markwayne Mullin to check all three boxes simultaneously. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-07-28T12:03:01.581Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/targeting-epsteins-sweetheart-deal-senate-republican-forgets-was-presi-rcna221432

It’s been a little weird to see just how many Republicans have, in recent years, forgotten who was president in 2020 — a problem that Joe Biden’s critics make with surprising frequency. Last week, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner went even further, suggesting that the former Democratic president was also in the White House in 2018. (He wasn’t.)

The problem, however, isn’t limited to GOP officials and Biden.
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Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin routinely appears in the media in order to defend Donald Trump and the incumbent president’s administration, and on Sunday, the Oklahoman did his best to peddle partisan talking points to CNN’s Jake Tapper related to Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Part of his pitch, however, went horribly awry. From his on-air comments:

Remember, there was a plea deal that was struck in 2009, way before I was in office, way before Trump was even considering to be in office, way before Pam Bondi was in office, way before Kash Patel was director — 2009, there was a sweetheart plea deal that was made underneath the Obama administration with Epstein. And that sweetheart [deal] has not been exposed.

It fell to the “State of the Union” host to remind his guest and his viewers, “No, that’s not right.”....

But what made Mullin’s error even more notable was the fact that it offered a fresh opportunity to remind the public that it was Trump who rewarded Alex Acosta — the guy who helped orchestrate Epstein’s deal — with a Cabinet position in the president’s first term.

This hasn’t played a prominent role in the public conversation about Trump and Epstein, but the Oklahoma Republican inadvertently reminded everyone about this, while trying and failing to smear Obama with an obvious calendar failure.

[AZJonnie]

1. Everyone from Mango Mussolini all the way down to the lowliest Trump-humping skinhead child molester

rotting in federal prison has one thing in common: The live in a completely bullshit (but purposefully curated) fantasy world of nonsense and lies. They appear to actually revel in the fact that they are lied to, know jack shit about jack shit, and thus have carte blanche to make up whatever version of reality suits them.

With people like this asshat Mullin, it's hard to know if he's a original purveyor of bullshit, or just another cult member who believes the bullshit and regurgitates it on command.

[Midnight Writer]

2. He did not forget. He was intentionally poisoning the narrative. He is lying to protect a pedophile

and he knows it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. This guy is a real idiot

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Markwayne busted...

Link to tweet

[Kid Berwyn]

5. 1984 meets Gone with the Wind

“Slaves were happy and well-cared for. See? The past is whatever I just said it is.”

“Uh. What was the question? Again?”