Fistfight Nearly Breaks Out Between U.S. Senator and Union Boss Over Social Media Posts
‘If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults and finish it here,’ the senator says.
In what has been an unusually contentious day in Congress, a fistfight nearly broke out between Senator Mullin and the president of the Teamsters union, Sean O’Brien. The latter’s venomous posts on X led Mr. Mullin to stand up for a fight in a committee hearing before Senator Sanders told him to step back.
“You tweeted at me one, two, three, four, five times,” Mr. Mullin said during a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, holding up sheets of paper with the posts printed on them. The Oklahoma senator then read the most vitriolic of the messages.
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