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. First, Tapper and Mullin debated over whether the attorney general has the ability to release documents related to the Epstein investigation, with Mullin insisting that only judges have the ability to make that information public and Tapper arguing that there is additional information that Attorney General Pam Bondi could — and has promised to — release, yet she has not done so.

Then Mullin made a bizarre claim that Epstein struck a deal in Florida in 2009, under President Obama. But that is factually incorrect, as Tapper pointed out.

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    There may be some bots, but honestly based on some conversations I’ve had with tankies and fake “leftist” many are some of the stupidest people I’ve talked to even compared to some brain dead Republicans.

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      Those bots have to play stupid, otherwise their propaganda isn’t consistent enough and they will be found out easily.

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        I’m not saying there are no bots, but some of them are definitely just that dumb.

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          I think you mean children. A whole lot of people commenting are literal children with no idea how the world works yet, or at the least very little.