Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to blame former President Barack Obama for Jeffrey Epstein‘s 2008 plea deal, despite Obama not being president at the time.
Mullin made the comments while being interviewed by Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. First, Tapper and Mullin debated over whether the attorney general has the ability to release documents related to the Epstein investigation, with Mullin insisting that only judges have the ability to make that information public and Tapper arguing that there is additional information that Attorney General Pam Bondi could — and has promised to — release, yet she has not done so.
Then Mullin made a bizarre claim that Epstein struck a deal in Florida in 2009, under President Obama. But that is factually incorrect, as Tapper pointed out.
Maybe a hundred years ago, but today we have one party with a black president and another party who want to put him in jail because he was black.
You are almost correct. The shift began with Nixon’s Southern Strategy. The transition of Southern Democrats who are also KKK members/racists to the Republican party began about 60 years ago.
Pretty sure Democrat President Lindon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act predates that, but yes roughly 60 years ago.