Mulvaney scrambles to walk back 'quid pro quo' admission, blaming press for reporting what he said
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After a disastrous press conference performance in which acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney agreed that the White House had held up U.S. military aid in a «quid pro quo» exchange requesting a Ukrainian investigation of a bizarre TrumpMulvaney scrambles to walk back 'quid pro quo' admission, blaming press for reporting what he said
After a disastrous press conference performance in which acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney agreed that the White House had held up U.S. military aid in a «quid pro quo» exchange requesting a Ukrainian investigation of a bizarre Trump-Giuliani conspiracy theory suggesting Democratic «corruption» in the country—an admission that destroyed weeks of Republican defenses of Trump and his team—Mulvaney is finally attempting to walk that admission back. In a brief statement, Mulvaney is now claiming that «the media has decided to misconstrue my comments to advance a biased and political witch hunt» and that «there was absolutely no quid pro quo.» We can go right to the tape for this one, and to the transcript: Mulvaney referred to «the corruption related to the DNC server» and that «that's why we held up the money.» So he's lying. But it's not a surprise that Mulvaney was forced to issue such a statement. Pundits and legal experts alike immediately noted the catastrophic nature of what Mulvaney had just admitted to: Trump's team was indeed illegally withholding U.S. military aid in an attempt to extract a political favor from the Ukrainian president. Read more