Mick Mulvaney Admits Trump’s Quid Pro Quo on Ukraine: ‘Get Over It’
As congressional investigators continue to circle around President Donald Trump’s attempts to enlist foreign leaders as foot soldiers in his re-election campaign, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney defiantly admitted on Thursday that the president held up military aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the country’s president into investigating an unproven conspiracy theory about Democratic corruption during the 2016 presidential election.
“Did [President Trump] also mention to me in passing the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely—no question about that. That’s it, and that’s why we held up the money,” Mulvaney told reporters Thursday in a rare White House press briefing. “What happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation, and that is absolutely appropriate.”
Anyone with a problem with that, Mulvaney added, is a naif.
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