GOP Senator Rants About Trans Staffers in Biden WH to Deflect from NBC’s Kristen Welker Pressing Him on Trump Cabinet

Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) ranted about trans staffers in the Biden White House when asked about President-Elect Donald Trump’s more controversial cabinet picks.

Mullin appeared on Sunday’s Meet The Press with Kristen Welker, where she asked about the controversies swirling around former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Pete Hegseth, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Mullin, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, began by defending Hegseth, Trump’s choice to head the Defense Department, calling him a “good pick.”

“As of right now, I start with yes,” Mullin said of his plans to vote for Hegseth. “Can I be moved off of that? I’m sure. Everybody starts at some point…but I start at a yes and it’s going to take some movement for me to move off of that.”

Mullin then applauded RFK Jr’s efforts to “take a hard look at…vaccines.”

“I actually find the guy extremely intelligent when it comes to this stuff,” Mullin said — before changing the subject by mocking two transgender persons who worked in the Biden administration:

I do got a question for you: The Democrats are spending so much time talking about the scrutiny of President Trump’s picks and yet, we didn’t spend — did we spend this amount of time scrutinizing Biden’s pick? I mean, we can talk about Rachel [Levine], the assistant secretary of HHS. I think that’s a pretty controversial pick from whatever pronoun he or she decides to use.

We talked about Sam [Brinton], the [deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy] and the individual was — was arrested multiple times for stealing luggage off of conveyor belts inside airports. I didn’t see this same type of scrutiny the Democrats used on these individuals’ picks. there’s been a lot of picks and we can talk about Pete Buttigieg. Is he really qualified? But, I don’t see the same people get scrutinized here.

Welker assured Mullin, “We scrutinized all the picks robustly.”

Watch the clip above via NBC News.