United States Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) has reportedly gone missing while trying to enter Afghanistan amid the Taliban takeover and chaotic U.S. departure.
According to The Washington Post, the Republican Congressman was on a ‘rogue evacuation mission,’ ignoring warnings from the State Department not to travel to the country.
Mullin reportedly contacted the embassy in Tajikistan in an attempt to move cash into Afghanistan.
“Embassy officials told Mullin they could not assist him in skirting Tajikistan’s laws on cash limits on his way to visiting one of the most dangerous places on earth,” the Post reported.
“As of late Tuesday, U.S. officials said they were unsure of Mullin’s location. Mullin’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment,” the report continues.
A wild scoop: A GOP lawmaker has been trying to travel to *Taliban-controlled Afghanistan* in a rogue evacuation mission despite efforts by the Pentagon & State Dept to discourage him. Officials are unsure of his current whereabouts. From @tylerpager & me https://t.co/MpieNxGNTU
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) August 31, 2021
SCOOP: A GOP member of Congress threatened a U.S. ambassador in attempting a second unauthorized trip to Afghanistan.
Rep. Mullin told embassy in Tajikistan he needed help transporting cash en route to Afghanistan for a rescue mission.
w/ @John_Hudson https://t.co/8TQPuU2r6E
— Tyler Pager (@tylerpager) August 31, 2021
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But he’s Republican so the White House doesn’t consider him an American when the prez stated that all Americans have been rescued and evacuated.
May this hero return home
What a disgusting report. “Rogue”?! The State Department DELIBERATELY ABANDONED Americans, ordered the army to refuse to let them in to the airport, and handed them over to the Taliban to be MURDERED. And they are not doing any more rescues. So how is someone attempting his own rescue mission a “rogue”?! What else should he do, leave it to the State Department?!
And he needs help from a US embassy to move money to get people out, and they have the CHUTZPAH to say “Oh, no, we couldn’t possibly break Tajikistani currency laws!” What a disgusting thing to say. Their duty of loyalty is to AMERICANS, not to Tajikistan. If rescuing them requires breaking Tajik laws, they must smash them to smithereens. How dare they refuse? It reminds me of the response people got when they were trying to rescue Jews from Germany in the late ’30s, or from Hungary in ’44.
Hope it wasn’t him hanging from that helicopter….eerie…
fake news he is not missing, he tried to enter Afghanistan but was not successful
Sounds like the Russians have him in custody.
This clown’s staff have said he is “safe” and they know where he is but refused to provide any other details. His antics put other Americans at risk and even his Republican colleagues, including the Leader McCarthy, have said these efforts are dumb. Its not as if he served in Afghanistan and was trying to rescue some Afghanis who helped him. He is a former college wrestler, MMA instructor and ran a plumbing business. He never served in the military.
Just about everyone, both left and right, agree on the need to continue efforts to repatriate the few remaining Americans who ignored multiple directions for months to leave Afghanistan asap and the Afghanis who are at risk because they helped American soldiers. However, these mindless showboating efforts by politicians do nothing to help and are likely complicate efforts by the military and State Department to repatriate those remaining
The left is focused on ‘gotcha.’ They blatantly show they do not care about the well-being and even the very lives of Americans on the right. A congressman is in danger, and they rejoice because he is republican. Civil War is imminent..
Nowhere in the article does it say that Mullin is in Afghanistan. The YWN headline writer strikes again.
Godolhadorah, how much do you get paid to write this liberal propoganda?
State department lidership and many buracrats have blood of thousends of afganis who halped us on their hands, they slowed down and stalled so many afgani imigration visa applictions for years. They have no problem with wide open southern border being crossed by millons unvetted illigals.
Joe will go down in history as the worst/dumbest US president ever for this “temendous success” of giving over stable fladgeling Afgani democracy to blood thirsty cut-throat terrorists to save some $300,000,000 a day for american taxpayers, as if liberal democrats know how to count or save money. He did this while leaving American citizens and our Afgani allies behind for slaughter. It is all about money in Joe’s demented brain. For Joe everything was always about money.
Bloody – Demented – Moneyhungry – Lying – Joe Biden!
godohadorah its high time u shud change ur screen name u always have to knock trump
Mullin posted this to Instagram about 16 hours ago:
“I am heading home…
Have we been helping get Americans out of Afghanistan, yes. Is the mission continuing, yes. Am I missing, no. Did I go dark for a little, yes because it wasn’t safe to be communicating. Am I extremely disappointed in how we (United States) left Americans behind… that would be an understatement. President Biden and his administration are absolutely lying to the American people about Americans and our friends being left behind.
So many great Americans, many who are Veterans and many who are not, are stepping up to keep our promise….. We will never leave an American behind. #mullinfamily #usakeepsourpromise #godblessamerica #loveourcountry🇺🇸 #Ordinarypeopledoingextraordinarythings”
To the self-named “Gadol” who is an enemy of the Torah: Go to Gehenom. Go directly to Gehenom, do not pass Go, and do not collect $200. Your comment is one of the most disgusting and degenerate you have ever made, and that’s a high standard.
A. You have no right to call him a clown. He is a patriotic American, unlike you. If his staff say they can’t provide details, why should we not believe them? Do you *want* sensitive information sprayed over the net just to satisfy your curiosity?!
B. What right do you have to call rescue efforts “antics”?
C. What the **** difference does it make whether he served in Afghanistan? What has that got to do with the price of fish? He’s trying to rescue a family he knows. What’s wrong with that?
D. No, “just about everyone, both left and right” does not agree on the need to repatriate Americans. On the contrary, your wicked evil president ordered the military to TURN AMERICANS AWAY and hand them over to be murdered or worse. Seven buses of American women were delivered directly to the Taliban. YOU DID THAT. Their blood is on YOUR hands. You and everyone else who votes Democrat. You will never wash it off. Hashem will never forgive you.
E. the few remaining Americans who ignored multiple directions for months to leave Afghanistan asap
That is an absolute mucking LIE. The administration, from the President down, repeatedly told them that they were safe, that the Taliban would not take over, and even if they did it wouldn’t be for months. It’s also a lie that they are few. They are in the thousands. And many of them were sent there BY your administration.
F. There ARE NO “efforts by the military and State Department to repatriate those remaining”. On the contrary, your president deliberately pulled the last soldiers out, while knowing full well that thousands remained to be evacuated. He had no need to do that, it was his deliberate and cynical choice; or rather that of those who are controlling him, because they are evil evil evil people.
All Democrats belong to Gehenom.
Millmouse: Greetings from gehenom (aka reality). You guys don’t get it. Mullin is a publicity seeking politician like General Bonsepur who pathetically keeps trying to issue “press releases” and conduct interviews from a storage closet at a Jersey golf course decorated to look like a replica of the Oval office. Trump did NOTHING in 4 years to withdraw the U.S. from Afghanistan as he had promised. His “negotiations” with the Taliban were a disaster, as was the “peace agreement” he negotiated w/o any participation by the elected Afghani government. Just like his efforts in North Korea and promises to neutralize North Korea’s nuclear program achieved nothing.