Mulvaney’s comments also made clear that Trump wasn’t just looking for dirt on Biden. Hill later reported that discussion to White House lawyers.
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ambassador to the European Union, who told Congress on Thursday that there was “no quid pro quo” before revealing that Trump and Giuliani’s efforts in Ukraine “also included an effort to prompt the Ukrainians to investigate Vice President Biden or his son.”įormer National Security Council official Fiona Hill heard Sondland discussing the Ukrainian firm that Biden’s son Hunter worked for while negotiating a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. That was contradicted by the testimony of Gordon Sondland, the U.S. “There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy.”ĭespite effectively admitting to the “quid pro quo” that Trump has denied, Mulvaney claimed that “the money held up had absolutely nothing to do with Biden.” “I have news for everybody: Get over it," he told reporters. can’t ask someone to help with an ongoing public investigation?” “We do that all the time,” Mulvaney claimed. "To be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo,” a reporter told Mulvaney. Mulvaney was referring to Trump’s debunked conspiracy theory that the Democratic National Committee's computer server, supposedly containing Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, was actually in possession of a Ukrainian company, which Trump has falsely claimed refused to grant the FBI access to its contents. “But that’s it, and that’s why we held up the money.” “Did he also mention to me in passing the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely. Mulvaney said the aid to Ukraine was initially blocked because “everybody knows this is a corrupt place,” but that Trump had later cited what he believed to be Ukraine’s role in the 2016 election. “The look-back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that was worried about in corruption with that nation,” Mulvaney said, insisting that the president's action was “absolutely appropriate.” Mulvaney admitted to reporters that the release of military aid to Ukraine was tied to Trump and Rudy Giuliani’s demands that the Ukrainian government investigate alleged "corruption" involving Democrats in the 2016 election. During a press briefing on Thursday, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney directly undercut President Trump’s claim that there was “no quid pro quo” in his effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political opponents.
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