Mulvaney suspended aid shortly before Trump told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a July 25 phone call that he wanted him “to do us a favor” and that “there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped” a prosecution in Ukraine. She said she hadn’t heard Mulvaney’s remarks and wanted to study them before commenting on whether how he described amounted to an impeachable offense. “You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative. Many Republicans have have been ducking questions about whether tying aid to a political goal was appropriate, but Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski on Thursday was more direct. “The money held up has absolutely nothing to do with Biden,” Mulvaney said.īut Democrats zeroed in on Mulvaney’s acknowledgment that the decision to hold back funding was connected to Trump’s determination that Ukraine investigate what he maintains was Democratic wrongdoing during the 2016 campaign.Īdam Schiff, the California Democrat who’s head of the Intelligence Committee and is one of the leaders of the impeachment inquiry, tweeted that “Things just went from very, very bad to much, much worse.” The top aide, who placed the hold on aid to Ukraine, provided some of the administration’s most extensive comments about the uproar over Ukraine that has fueled an impeachment inquiry by House Democrats. “Get over it,” Mulvaney said Thursday in a White House press briefing, adding there’s always “going to be political influence in foreign policy” and “elections have consequences.”
#Mulvaney says ukraine tied to dnc server pro
The server, they say Ukraine has it.(Bloomberg) - Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney effectively acknowledged that President Donald Trump offered Ukraine a quid pro quo for military aid, but tied it to demands that the country investigate the origins of the Russian election interference probe - not Joe Biden and his son. I guess you have one of your wealthy people. Remember, this is the same Mueller whom the president cites for his “total exoneration” from the Russian collusion allegation.Īccording to the rough transcript released by the White House, Trump said, “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike. Trump asked Zelensky to look into the status of the DNC email server that the FBI and former special prosecutor Robert Mueller say was hacked by the Russians ahead of the 2016 election. The first part of the favor is far less controversial.
The second part, which everyone focuses on, was the request for the Ukrainians to work with Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Attorney General William Barr in an investigation of Biden and Biden’s son Hunter.
In his now-infamous phone call with Zelensky, Trump asked for a “favor” in two parts. The center-ring story is that President Trump allegedly tried to pressure Volodymyr Zelensky, the new president of Ukraine (by withholding military aid and an Oval Office meeting) to investigate former vice president Joe Biden. If you’ve paid any attention to the impeachment drama, you know the basics.
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