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.
Then Mullin made a bizarre claim that Epstein struck a deal in Florida in 2009, under President Obama.
“2009, there was a sweetheart plea deal that was made underneath the Obama administration with Epstein, and that sweetheart has not been exposed.”.
MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under ObamaTAPPER: No.
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A lead prosecutor in the investigation, Marie Villafana, said in 2020 that Epstein’s sweetheart deal was an “injustice.”. »