During a press conference on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin openly threatened to jail state officials who refuse to cooperate with the Trump administration’s midterm election security “program” this fall, leaving a number of critics stunned over the blatant admission.

Mullin’s admission came just one day after President Donald Trump’s national address on supposed election security shortcomings, and amid the Trump administration’s ongoing push to exert more control over the midterm elections, which include efforts to seize states’ voter registration data through threats of withholding federal funds earmarked for disaster preparedness, among other things.

“If the states that choose not to participate with the program and they choose not to participate in securing the elections, we will make sure that we make those states a priority to look at who voted in their states and hold them, the election officials, accountable,” Mullin said in response to a question from a Daily Caller reporter.

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    Reminder that there are images of Markwayne Mullin cowering in fear during Jan 6 while others barricade the door, and another image of him standing on a box to match the height of his debate opponent because he is a small man with Napoleon Complex.

    There is also a video of him trying to physically fight someone during a hearing until Bernie Sanders ordered him to sit down and behave like an adult.

    Markwayne Mullin is a coward redneck piece of trash who claims to be a self-made man but in reality inherited a successful plumbing business from his father.