Last month at a train wreck press conference, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney attempted to shrug off evidence of the Trump administration trying to leverage military aid to force Ukraine to conduct an investigation into a conspiracy theory on the 2016 election that Trump routinely disseminates.
Taylor is a career state department official who worked specifically as ambassador to Ukraine once before, from 2006 to 2009.
And we all know how much those old Bush/Cheney appointees have become tools for Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.
Is the treason party using a non-rep lawyer to question witnesses? If so how’d they find one willing to publicly make a fool of themself?
Someone should ask Mulvaney for a list of other countries Trump has personally pressured to fight corruption, and a list of other individuals Trump has personally advocated to have investigated by foreign governments.
Absolutely! Except now Mulvaney says he didn’t say what he said.
SThe Dems need to do a better job of using emotional language and showing how stupid the R’s approach is!
This R attorney’s frown and pout is very annoying.
Just to confirm that this is “business as usual”.
So I guess they are going to say that Trump’s call was normal and legitimate and try to undermine the credibility of every single witness the Dems bring forward. Sure sounds like the defensive strategy of a very guilty person.
I can’t believe I’m writing this next phrase, but in fairness to Mulvaney, he probably meant to insert into the public consciousness the notion that “quid pro quos” happen all the time in foreign policy generally.
That is without a doubt correct, and also a distraction.
Do foreign policy “quid pro quos” normally involve the personal interests of a US president? No.
Well there’s THAT one whose President is visiting with POTUS today!
Mulvaney is someone who detests most federal spending, remember his rant against meals on wheels. So its obvious that he wasn’t crazy about releasing the aid. That and sucking up to Trump made a stupid and lethal combination.
All of 'em, Katie.
And what specific anti-corruption actions did Zelensky take which led to Chiselin’ Trump’s eventual release of the military aid for Ukraine.
They’re trying to overturn the 2016 GOTP primary, since Low Energy Jeb lost.
Have you not been paying attention to the endless stream of shills appearing on panel discussions these past 3 years?
Like the murder of Kashoggi. All real Americans have saws and power tools in their garage to work on wholesome American projects. Therefore, using tools to remove something you don’t like so it will fit while being carried out the door in pieces is perfectly reasonable and everybody does that.
Castor was a veteran of the incisive Benghazi hearings.
He’s just as good in this hearing—talking to the base and only the base.
Nixon sabotaging the Paris Peace Talks and Reagan sabotaging negotiations to free the Iranian hostages don’t count because they were just candidates at the time.
There are more bad days coming for trump (checks schadenfreude stockpile)