I think I kind or sort of get where he's trying to go with this, but he's failing badly to get there, and I'm not so sure it was a worthwhile destination in the first place.
He's Republican Congressman Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, and during a townhall meeting a constituent brings up the well-worn talking point that taxpayers pay his salary. Whatever point the constituent may have hoped to support by raising that fact, it certainly is a fact.
Or is it? Apparently Mullin doesn't think so:
