Mulvaney brashly admits quid pro quo over Ukraine aid as key details emerge -- and then denies doing

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Mulvaney brashly admits quid pro quo over Ukraine aid as key details emerge -- and then denies doing so

Mulvaney brashly admits quid pro quo over Ukraine aid as key details emerge -- and then denies doing so - CNNPolitics
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney made a stunning admission Thursday by confirming that President Donald Trump froze nearly $400 million in US security aid to Ukraine in part to pressure that country into investigating Democrats.

Hours later, Mulvaney then denied ever saying those words.
The dramatic admission came during an afternoon news conference where Mulvaney insisted that he knew only of a US request to investigate the handling of a Democratic National Committee server hacked in the 2016 election, but text messages between US diplomats show efforts to get Ukraine to commit to an investigation into Burisma, the company on whose board former Vice President Joe Biden's son sat. There is no evidence of wrongdoing in Ukraine by either Biden.
"That's why we held up the money," Mulvaney said after listing the 2016-related investigation and Trump's broader concerns about corruption in Ukraine.

After weeks during which Trump denied the existence of any political quid pro quo in his withholding of security aid to Ukraine, Mulvaney confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo and offered this retort: "Get over it."
"We do that all the time with foreign policy," Mulvaney said of the influence of politics in the Trump administration.
tulc(thought this was interesting) :wave:
 
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Typical Donald pattern.

Deny, deny, deny. Then admit but act flippant about it. Then claim what was said was fake news despite it being on video. Or that it was a joke. Etc. Then retract.

Integrity never enters the picture.
 
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So the Trump impeachment thing
is a big waste of time.
Most of us already knew that.

All this for nothing is only going to
assure Trump's win in 2020.
Why?
Because the people are tired
of the same old mumbojumbo.
M-Bob
 
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So the Trump impeachment thing is a big waste of time. Most of us already knew that.
All this for nothing is only going to
assure Trump's win in 2020.
Why?
Because the people are tired
of the same old mumbojumbo.
M-Bob

Yes, now we have a whole new set of "mumbojumbo", the swamp has been expanded in all directions.
 
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So the Trump impeachment thing
is a big waste of time.
Apparently not according to Mr Mulvanay, he said yes President Trump did indeed hold up the funds in an attempt work a quid pro quo deal to get dirt on a political opponent.

Most of us already knew that.
Apparently not if you think Mr Mulvanay didn't just admit to doing the very thing that's being investigated. :wave:

All this for nothing is only going to
assure Trump's win in 2020.
That claim gets more adorable every time you make it. ;)

Apparently you have some strange belief that by making the claim all those laws President Trump and his swamp administration have broken since taking office are going to suddenly be thought of as not broken. The rest of us tend to wonder how long President Trump supporters can keep ignoring the reality of the situation? I for one am thinking of making some pop corn and continue watching the dumpster fire burn out of control. :wave:

Because the people are tired
of the same old mumbojumbo.
M-Bob
Evidently not, or you all would have long since stopped listening to President Trump. :sorry:
tulc(hopes M-Bob enjoys his morning mumbo jumbo) :oldthumbsup:
 
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So the Trump impeachment thing
is a big waste of time.
Most of us already knew that.

All this for nothing is only going to
assure Trump's win in 2020.
Why?
Because the people are tired
of the same old mumbojumbo.
M-Bob
It would appear that Trump supporters, like "Mountainmanbob" have no interest in exercising their democratic legacy by determining the facts and holding Presidents responsible for their words and actions!

For those who so willing to take the line of least resistance by abdicating their ability to determine fact from fiction, the efforts made by the Founding Fathers to make sense of the political "mumbojumbo" through the Constitution with its checks and balances have been largely wasted!
 
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