Exclusive | Rambo-like Sen. Markwayne Mullin was huge problem for US ambassadors and CIA bosses: I cant handle this guy

Democrats are on a mission to derail incoming Homeland Security Secretary Sen.Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) — by claiming he wanted to act more like Rambo than representative.Mullin, 48, a former mixed martial arts fighter who fought three bouts in the Xtreme Fighting League, was regularly pushing to get his hands dirty in the field or to drop into dark corners of the globe instead of more mundane DC committee work, an inside source claimed.“It was a huge problem.

He spent all his time on the Intelligence Committee trying to fast-rope into Kabul,” a House Dem told The Post.“Ambassadors were like: I can’t handle this guy, because he wanted to go and be tactical.

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.He was always going to foreign countries and trying to do operational things.“And it made ambassadors and [CIA] station chiefs bananas.

Because they had to be polite to the guy..

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He was bothering some ambassador for a helicopter.”Mullin took a 2021 trip to Afghanistan to try to help Americans stranded after the US troop withdrawal.If Mullin rubbed some House members the wrong way, he had other problems in the Senate last week, where Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.) eviscerated him for having “anger issues.”Paul unloaded on Mullin during his confirmation hearing, referencing the time in 2017 when Mullin called him a “freaking snake” while discussing an incident where Paul’s neighbor assaulted him outside his Kentucky home.Paul and Sen.Gary Peters (D-Mich.) also repeatedly demanded during the hearing that Mullin fill them in on “classified” travel he took to an unidentified country in 2016.Mullin, who was elected to the House in 2012 and joined the Senate in 2023, disclosed that he undertook special “survival, evasion, resistance and escape” training with a “small contingency” in 2015 — but refused to reveal what it was for.The nominee huddled with Peters inside a secure facility Wednesday to discuss the mysterious overseas trip.

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