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Mulvaney: SNIP I did want to come out here with my Nationals hat on, but they told me that that would violate some type of rule, so I couldn’t do that. I was also going to wear my Montreal Expos hat, and then they said that would be foreign interference in the World Series, so I can’t do that either.
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Q Very quickly. This is a business optics. How is the President going to stand on the debate stage — if, in fact, Vice President Biden wins the nomination — and try to make an argument that he profited off of his vice presidency, or his family did, when he’s hosting the G7 (inaudible)?
MR. MULVANEY: He’s going to do that extraordinarily well.
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Q Yeah. A video shown last weekend at that resort –actually, a doctored video — showed the President killing members of the news media and his political opponents. Why do you think he hasn’t spoken directly about the sentiment behind that video?
MR. MULVANEY: Have you asked him?
Q I’m sure —
Q We have asked him. Yes.
Q We’ve asked. We’ve asked for comment over and over again, yes.
MR. MULVANEY: But we put out a statement. And you had a chance to ask him that question yesterday and you asked him something else, which is fine. But —
Q But to be clear, he’s been asked multiple times and hasn’t responded.
MR. MULVANEY: Hold on a sec. Hold on a second. Her question was why he hasn’t answered. We did, as a White House, we listened to that. We didn’t like that. I think we condemn that. That’s not —
Q But he’s the President.
Q (Inaudible) Twitter with 65 million followers, sir.
MR. MULVANEY: Do you — we didn’t. We did not. Did you think that we would?
Q What has the President said about it, Mr. Mulvaney?
Q I mean, that doesn’t sound like a very strong condemnation.
MR. MULVANEY: Oh, come on, Jon.
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Q Yes. There will almost certainly be a House Judiciary Committee hearing about this site selection.
MR. MULVANEY: You think so?
Q Jerry Nadler has already talked about that. Will —
MR. MULVANEY: Do you, though? Do you really think so? Do you think they have time to do that?
Q I really think so. Yeah. Will the administration participate, cooperate, with that?
MR. MULVANEY: You know, that’s a — by the way, that’s a fascinating question. I had not thought that — that this would prompt a Judiciary Committee investigation. On one hand, I’m thinking to myself, “They don’t have time to do it because they’re too busy doing impeachment.” Right. And then I think to myself, “No, this is entirely consistent with how they’ve spent the first 18 months in office.” Right? Or 12 months — however long they’ve been here. I guess it’s been a year, right?
That, yeah, they’d rather do that than talk about tax policy, than talk about drug policy, than talk about opioids; talk about healthcare. So, that’s a fascinating question. I don’t know if there will be a Judiciary Committee inquiry into this. My guess is there probably will be. And we look forward to participating in it.
