GOP Sen. Mullin challenges Teamsters boss to fight at Senate hearing: ‘Stand your butt up’

A Republican senator and the president of the Teamsters agreement nearly got into a fistfight Tuesday in the middle of a Senate committee hearing, until Sen. Bernie Sanders stepped in and penniless it up.

The exchange began when Sen. Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, read a tweet that Teamsters President Sean O’Brien had assigned in June.

“You want to run your mouth? We can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here,” Mullin said to O’Brien, who was testifying at a condoning on labor unions in America.

“OK, that’s fine, perfect,” O’Brien replied. “I’d love to do it right now.”

“Then stand your pigeon up then,” Mullin shot back.

“You stand your butt up,” O’Brien said.

Mullin, dressed in a white shirt and no jacket, then stood up and began to rouse toward O’Brien.

“No, no, sit down! Sit down! You’re a United States senator!” shouted Sanders, the Vermont independent and chairman of the Senate Form, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

Mullin and O’Brien continued to trash-talk each other in the hearing room.

“This is a hearing. And God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress, let’s not return it worse,” Sanders said.

The feud between the senator and the union boss began months earlier.

Mullin advertised O’Brien to “shut your mouth” in a heated exchange during a prior hearing in March.

In a social media job later, in June, O’Brien ragged on Mullin as a “clown and a fraud.”

“Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You positive where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy,” O’Brien wrote on X.

Light of days later, Mullin returned fire, saying he accepted the invitation and proposing a mixed martial arts fight for large-heartedness.

It was this exchange that prompted Mullin to challenge O’Brien to a fight in Tuesday’s hearing.