{"id":2515766,"date":"2025-11-29T18:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mullin-trashes-slotkins-warning-on-national-guard-in-wake-of-shooting\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T18:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:08:33","slug":"mullin-trashes-slotkins-warning-on-national-guard-in-wake-of-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mullin-trashes-slotkins-warning-on-national-guard-in-wake-of-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullin trashes Slotkin&#8217;s warning on National Guard in wake of shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmullin-trashes-slotkins-warning-on-national-guard-in-wake-of-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2515766&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) criticized Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) for her recent remarks warning that National Guard deployments ordered by former President Donald Trump could lead too troops accidentally shooting civilians in U.S. cities. Slotkin&#8217;s comments were part of her defense of a joint video with other <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >democratic veterans urging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President ...\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">service members<\/a><\/a> to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-accused-of-encouraging-military-coup-with-coordinated-message-to-armed-services-personnel\/\" title=\"Democrats Accused of Encouraging ...Military Coup... with Coordinated Message to Armed Services Personnel\">refuse illegal orders<\/a>.&#8221; Mullin dismissed her warning as &#8220;absolutely ridiculous,&#8221; accusing her of disrespecting the military and law enforcement, and suggested she is positioning herself for a 2028 presidential run. his remarks came shortly after a tragic shooting in Washington, D.C., where two West Virginia National Guard members were shot by a 29-year-old Afghan immigrant, resulting in one death and one critical injury.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mullin trashes Slotkin&rsquo;s warning on National Guard in wake of DC shooting<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2415586\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) rebuked Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elissa-slotkin\">Elissa Slotkin<\/a>&lsquo;s (D-MI) recent criticism of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-guard\">National Guard<\/a> deployments in her defense of the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-concha-slams-democrats-who-urged-troops-to-reject-illegal-orders\/\" title=\"Joe Concha slams Democrats who urged troops to reject \u2018illegal orders\u2019\">illegal orders&#038;rdquo<\/a>; video, dismissing her remarks as part of a potential bid for the presidency in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Slotkin <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/week-transcript-11-23-25-sen-elissa-slotkin\/story?id=127763059\">warned<\/a> last weekend that President Donald Trump&rsquo;s National Guard orders are leading to &ldquo;very stressful&rdquo; situations in U.S. cities that could result in troops inadvertently shooting at civilians. The Michigan senator&rsquo;s warning was part of a larger defense of a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3892669\/democratic-veterans-congress-unlawful-orders\/\">joint video<\/a> featuring her and other Democratic veterans in Congress calling for U.S. service members to &ldquo;refuse illegal orders.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3899193\/hill-republicans-break-trump-lame-duck-chatter-grows\/\">Hill Republicans keep breaking with Trump as lame duck chatter grows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3900114\/ruben-gallego-reacts-heartbreaking-leak-texts-democrats-not-fun-party\/\">Gallego reacts to &#8216;heartbreaking&#8217; leak of texts that Democrats are &#8216;not the fun party&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3897967\/mark-kelly-pentagon-investigation-not-going-to-silence-us\/\">Mark Kelly strikes defiant tone in the face of Pentagon investigation: &#8216;He&#8217;s not going to silence us&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>While that video is under scrutiny from the Department of War, Mullin targeted Slotkin on Saturday over her National Guard comments, calling them &ldquo;absolutely ridiculous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She should know better. She&rsquo;s former CIA and what she&rsquo;s doing is auditioning to run for president in 2028,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s such an insult to every man and woman that has ever served this great nation, either from law enforcement or into the military, to say that you&rsquo;re gonna get nervous and you&rsquo;re gonna shoot at U.S. citizens. That is not happening. We know that&rsquo;s not happening.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma senator piled on the 2028 claim, suggesting Slotkin is already looking years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She owes every single person uniform an apology. That is so ridiculous. And it makes me mad when these Democrats go out there and they&rsquo;re so loose-lipped &hellip; that they&rsquo;re not worried about the American people. They&rsquo;re more focused on their political future,&rdquo; Mullin added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/op-eds\/3899623\/elissa-slotkin-mark-kelly-democratic-privilege\/\">ELISSA SLOTKIN, MARK KELLY, AND DEMOCRATIC PRIVELEGE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The comments come days after two West Virginia National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C. One of the troops has died, while the other is in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect in the shooting is a 29-year-old Afghan national who came to the United States in 2021 under a Biden-era program that allowed Afghan nationals fleeing the Taliban to enter the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mullin slams Slotkin&#8217;s National Guard warning after DC shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2515767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mullin-slotkin-national-guard.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[56760,37479,36830,4300,19817],"class_list":["post-2515766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-mullin-2","tag-national-guard","tag-political-response","tag-shooting","tag-slotkin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mullin-slotkin-national-guard.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515770,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515766\/revisions\/2515770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}