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Didn't you watch or see a transcript of Mulvaney's presser yesterday?????? You go on as though you don't make excuses, yesterday, and today....HERE YOU GO AGAIN.
Stop pretending.
HERE YOU GO....Transcript (do you know the meaning of the word, transcript??) Maybe your toady President and his staff should be aware.
When someone hold up money for political purposes .....such as getting the "goods" on an opposing campaign or opponent to a foreign government, it is a quid pro quo. Mulvaney admitted that they "DO IT ALL THE TIME". Today, like you, he is backing away from his brash statements. But too late...they are recorded and the transcript is out. Here's a snippet from the transcript that shows there was a quid pro quo. He admitted he was asking a foreign country to dig up dirt on the DNC...(Trump also asked them as a FAVOR to investigate Biden and son, which they're trying desperately to deny.
And the president did not like that. I know [inaudible 00:21:11] long answer your question, but I’m still going. So those were the driving factors. Did he also mention to me in the past, the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely. No question about that. But that’s it. And that’s why we held up the money.
Mick Mulvaney: (
21:25)
Now there was a report-
Reporter (M): (21:27)
So the demand for an investigation into the Democrats was part of the reason that he ordered to withhold funding to Ukraine?
Mick Mulvaney: (21:34)
The look back to 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.
Reporter (M): (21:42)
Withholding the funding?
Mick Mulvaney: (21:43)
Yeah. Which ultimately then flowed. By the way, there was a report that we were worried that if we didn’t pay out the money, it would be illegal. Okay. It would be unlawful. That is one of those things that has that little shred of truth in it that makes it look a lot worse than it really is. We were concerned about over at OMB about an impoundment, and I know I’ve just put half of you folks to bed, but Budget Control Impoundment Act of 1974 says if Congress appropriates money, you have to spend it. Okay. At least that’s how it’s interpreted by some folks. And we knew that that money either had to go out the door by the end of September or we had to have a really, really good reason not to do it. And that was the legality of the issue.
Reporter (M): (
22:25)
But to be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo. It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into into the Democratic server happened as well.
Mick Mulvaney: (
22:35)
We do that all the time with foreign policy. We were holding up money at the same time for what was it? The Northern triangle countries. We were holding up aid at the Northern triangle countries so that they would change their policies on immigration. By the way, and this speaks to an important … I’m sorry? This speaks to important point because I heard this yesterday and I can never remember the gentleman who … Was it McKinney? Is that his name? I don’t know him. He testified yesterday. And if you go and if you believe the news reports, because we’ve not seen any transcripts of this. The only transcript I’ve seen was Sondland’s testimony this morning.