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Jilly_in_VA

(14,729 posts)
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 09:29 AM Aug 2025

GOP senator on DC carjacking fears: 'I don't buckle up' [View all]

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Wednesday expressed his fear of being carjacked in the nation’s capital, as the Trump administration ramps up its federal takeover of local law enforcement.

“And by the way, I’m not joking when I say this, I drive around in Washington, D.C., in my Jeep, and yes, I do drive myself, and I don’t buckle up. And the reason why I don’t buckle up, and people can say whatever they want to, they can raise their eyebrows at me again, is because of carjacking,” Mullin said during an appearance on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle.”

“I don’t want to be stuck in my vehicle when I need to exit in a hurry, because I got a seatbelt around me and that — and I wear my seatbelt all the time,” he told host Brian Kilmeade, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

“But in Washington, D.C., I do not, because it is so prevalent of carjacking,” the Oklahoma Republican continued. “And I don’t want the same thing [to] happen to me what’s happened to a lot of people that work on the hill.”


https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5451611-markwayne-mullin-dc-carjacking-crime-trump-takeover/

This guy is such a TOOL!

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Another excuse for not buckling up. yardwork Aug 2025 #1
He's lying to lie JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #3
Nothing new. yardwork Aug 2025 #4
Not always Jilly_in_VA Aug 2025 #19
Unfortunately it goes way back. yardwork Aug 2025 #22
Not buckling up means they pull him out of the car quickly. haele Aug 2025 #18
He's a person of the Lie JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #2
No off ramps. I like that! CrispyQ Aug 2025 #12
Now make a sharp turn at high speed dalton99a Aug 2025 #5
n/s JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #8
Logic just isn't important for these emotional based Maga morons. Blues Heron Aug 2025 #6
It's all they know JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #7
He has more of a chance of being heckled for his extremely hostile views on women than he does being carjacked Quiet Em Aug 2025 #9
Just like Trump, both are SCARED. Emile Aug 2025 #10
Goodluck withthat Markwayne. tanyev Aug 2025 #11
The "Markwayne" name was a dead giveaway. Paladin Aug 2025 #13
Decorum prevents me from saying my preferred pejorative EYESORE 9001 Aug 2025 #14
It only takes a second to release a seat belt Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #15
"I don't want to be stuck in my vehicle when I need to exit in a hurry,... " Disaffected Aug 2025 #16
Loser doesn't have a chauffeur? leftstreet Aug 2025 #17
Weird...when we were a family from freaking Iowa Bettie Aug 2025 #20
But they do run when their own MAGAts attempt a coup malaise Aug 2025 #21
Stay your snowflake ass home. Problem solved. oasis Aug 2025 #23
I believe he is to damn dumb to buckle up. republianmushroom Aug 2025 #24
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