Sen Mullin gets emotional recounting Trump's kindness to his son

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., grew emotional during his Senate Homeland Security nomination hearing as he described how President Donald Trump supported his family after Mullin’s son Jim suffered a severe brain injury in January 2020. "I'm going to try getting through without crying. It's not about President Trump. It's about my son," Mullin told Sen. Ron Johnson , R-Wis., during what was otherwise a tense hearing, explaining why he is friends with the president that nominated him. Fighting back tears, Mullin said his son, once a "world-class athlete," was left unable to walk normally, control his muscles or handle basic tasks after a traumatic brain injury from wrestling. He recalled that Trump called immediately after learning what had happened and stayed in close contact as the family sought treatment, even offering his private plan to travel for healthcare treatment. "I mean, here's the president of the United States, and he did it just because he cared," Mullin concluded to Johnson's question. HOUSE GOP LEADER LAUNCHES SENATE BID AS TRUMP TAPS MARKWAYNE MULLIN FOR DHS "And so when you want to say why he's a friend. Yeah, we were acquaintances before that. We've been friends ever since." According to Mullin, Trump offered the use of his personal plane to help the family reach a California neuro-rehabilitation center, then called almost daily for two weeks to check on Jim’s condition. Mullin said Trump later visited Jim in Bakersfield during the middle of the 2020 election campaign , spending time with him despite pressure from aides to leave. "His team came to him twice and said, 'sir, we got to go; we got to go,'" Mullin said. "On the third time they came over to him, he looked at them. He says, 'Hey, I guarantee you that plane won't leave without me for the next 15 minutes.'" 40+ HOUSE REPUBLICANS RALLY BEHIND MARKWAYNE MULLIN FOR DHS, CALL IT A ‘CRITICAL MOMENT’ FOR BORDER SECURITY "He did nothing but love on my son," Mullin testified Trump's spending time…