Posted on 10/18/2019 10:22:17 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday defended acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney amid backlash over his remarks suggesting that Ukraine aid was connected to the president’s call for the country to launch a probe into Democrats.
McCarthy noted during a press conference that Mulvaney sought to walk back his remarks later in the day on Thursday, arguing the White House official "clarified his statement" and that he "takes Mick Mulvaney at his word for his clarification."
“I think Mick was very clear in cleaning up the statement, that there was no quid pro quo. Everybody has been investigated states, but more importantly, you have the transcript the proof,” the House GOP leader told reporters on Friday.
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“I know people today want to say someone's guilty until they're innocent. We know more than the whistleblower. We have the transcripts of the phone call, the American public has seen it and no one believes he used quid pro quo and there is nothing impeachable in there," McCarthy said.
When asked whether Mulvaney should step down in the wake of his comments, McCarthy said no, adding he “takes Mick Mulvaney at his word for his clarification.”
Mulvaney in a statement Thursday seeking to walk back his comments from a press conference earlier in the day blamed the media for the political backlash, alleging reporters distorted his remarks as part of “a biased and political witch hunt against President Trump.”
“The president never told me to withhold any money until the Ukrainians did anything related to the server. The only reasons we were holding the money was because of concern about lack of support from other nations and concerns over corruption," he said in his statement.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Ukraine got their money.
We got what before it was released?
Nothing, nada, zero.
Actually, that's not what Mulvaney said -- or even suggested. What he said was that the Ukraine aid was connected to the President's call for the country to help the U.S. in a probe of the 2016 presidential election -- which the Democrats demanded from the moment Trump was elected.
The fact that this probe now clearly points to a conspiracy between DEMOCRATS and foreign interests is incidental to Mulvaney's statement ... but it sure as hell says an awful lot about where this is going.
Who is "we?"
Keep in mind that this report was posted in the media the day after Michael Flynn's lawyer filing a motion to demand access to the cell phone records -- and even the cell phones themselves -- of CIA/"Deep State" operative Joseph Mifsud. If you read the text of that motion, it's clear that Flynn's lawyer knew that the DOJ has these things in its possession -- which raises the obvious question of just HOW they knew this when it would seem to be highly classified information?
Why are we stupidly arguing about quid pro quo, yet ceding the blatant lie that “investigating his political opponents” was the deliverable?
The issue isn’t the alleged quid, it’s the damned false qou.
The USA
Why is the media calling it an impeachment inquiry when nobody has voted on one?
Because the media is in on the scam?
What do the Dems want to to Israel and the money the US gives them ?
Im not so sure it's incidental....
we do know the DNC was conspiring to make up dirt on Trump, but the one thing that isnt being said... openly anyway.. is the fact the DNC computer hack suddenly HAD TO BE blamed on the “Russians”.......WHY?????...something changed!
(Seth Rich could not be reached for comment...connect the dots)
Of course there was no quid pro quo. In real estate, they call it a contingency.
I believe the media and the Rats are one and the same.
Is that not Quid Pro Quo also?????
President Trump asked Ukraine to do what they’re supposed to do (especially since we hve a treaty to that effect), so he must be impeached.
Joe Biden bribed and coerced Ukraine to do something improper, and it is a lie to say it ever happened, even though he said so himself.
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