Democrats and their allies in the media are trying to conflate the pursuit of Jeffrey Epstein transparency in another political dog and pony show to smear President Donald Trump, but Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., rejected it as yet another hoax, using simple logic lost on the left.

Mullin, in a testy exchange, repeatedly reminded Jake Tapper, CNN’s “State of the Union” host Sunday, that he and the Democrats are on the wrong side of history again on this, like the Russiagate “hoax.”

“So transparency is what we’re all about, but the Democrats are trying to distract from their awful record and from the questions they need to ask, like who was signing the executive order since it was an autopen?” Mullin told Tapper. “Who was actually choosing – or choosing to continue to run the Russiagate, when we know it was a huge hoax? Who was making the decisions at the White House?

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