Mulvaney Claims He Didn’t Say What He Actually Said On Ukraine | Talking Points Memo

A few hours after confirming a quid pro quo between a conspiracy theory pursued by President Donald Trump and military aid allocated for Ukraine, White House chief of staff reversed himself.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1256564
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He’s right. Withholding the military aid appropriated by Congress was extortion, not a quid pro quo.

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No puppet, no puppet! I’m the puppet!

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Clean Up on Aisle 5!

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Yep. That’s what it was.

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Witness the rebirth of the “Modified Limited Hang Out” - this being the ‘modified’ part.

Look - they KNOW they’re caught dead to rights. They HAVE to get out ahead of the evidence, and piss all over the floor. Muddy the waters. Poison the well. Sorry, I’m running low on metaphors.

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Isn’t that picture actually a still from The Lost Ark, just after they opened it?

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Wow… You’re absolutely right.

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Elijah Cummings passed away and this “Administration” can’t give us the decency of allowing us to mourn.

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Hmmmm, mmmm! Mick’s ready for a heapin’ helpin’ of Trumpfacts™

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I’m ashamed to call myself a content creator, sitting here as I am without a pricey self-administered online tutorial to make available on why you shouldn’t blurt out confessions to the media, complete with practice examples and self-testing tools. Another damn MISSED OPPORTUNITY for which I can only blame myself. :angry:

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Shit in the punchbowl comes to mind.

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All I can say is, his dog had better lie low for a few days.

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He threw Trump under the bus twice, with the Quid Pro Quo, thing and by revealing that it was Trumps idea to hold the G7 at his Hotel.

The question is if Mulvaney did it out of incompetence, revenge or Trump told him to do it, but now that he saw it, decided that it did not look good.

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Shouldn’t be mourning, should be anger. And I hope a thorough autopsy, quite convenient that one of the Chairmen investigating him dies suddenly during the middle of it, especially soon after that attempted break-in at his house this summer.

Regardless, the best way to celebrate his legacy will be to impeach and remove trump from office.

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No do-overs, Mickie-poo.

“To be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo, it is, funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happens as well?” Karl asked.

“We do that all the time with foreign policy,” Mulvaney said.

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Fox News: Mulvaney is his own worst critic

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This fucking day, holy shit. It just won’t end.

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“concerns over corruption” – Every reporter needs to press every official on this: What corruption? It’s become another version of “I’m under audit”, a meaningless verbal tic that explains nothing. They are referring only to Trump’s fever dreams about 2016 election hacking. That’s fantasy, not corruption. Biden and the rest of the world went after Ukraine over actual corruption. This is not that, and the media needs to press Trump on it to make the truth obvious.

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“The shitshow must go on!”

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