Posted on 03/28/2021 10:58:52 AM PDT by lowbridge
The former chief of staff to ex-President Donald Trump on Saturday pushed back against his former boss' recent attempt to whitewash the history of the January 6 Capitol riot.
Mick Mulvaney, who stepped down as Trump's special envoy to Northern Ireland after the insurrection, called Trump's comments that his supporters were "hugging and kissing" police officers and posed "zero threat," despite widespread violence, "manifestly false."
"I was surprised to hear the President say that. Clearly there were people who were behaving themselves, and then there were people who absolutely were not, but to come out and say that everyone was fine and there was no risk, that's just manifestly false -- people died, other people were severely injured," Mulvaney told CNN's Pamela Brown on "Newsroom."
"It's not right to say there was no risk, I don't know how you can say that when people were killed," he added.
Mulvaney was one of a handful of senior officials who resigned in the wake of the January 6 riot, including former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and former Trump deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger.
Trump earlier this week attempted to rewrite the history of the insurrection, which he stoked by repeatedly and falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him. There is no evidence of widespread fraud, but Trump and many of his conservative allies in the media and on Capitol Hill have continued to push the narrative.
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“Why would someone give up a succesful career in the private sector to take all the arrows that would come their way if they chose to work for President Trump?”
For the same reason President Trump did?
It’s a rare honor and privilege for most people to have a real job, something that really needs to be done, when there are real consequences for failure.
ping
Unfortunately there aren’t enough people out there like Trump.
Blame Paul Ryan and The Wisconsin groupies.
Lamest ‘insurrection’ ever.
I look forward to the day when people like Mick Mulvaney meet their just reward. I hope he deserves his 30 pieces of silver.
When Trump said there were no risks, he was obviously referring to his rally, not the riots.
Mulvaney was always an idiot. Never could understand why Trump picked him.
LOL! Facebook has replaced the rack as the best way to gather evidence against people like Barnett. He couldn't post the incriminating photos fast enough.
Would you hire this guy for anything right now. I wouldn’t trust him to work in my taco stand. Backstabbing ingrate.
Looking for a gig at CNN!
“Unfortunately there aren’t enough people out there like Trump.”
That seems to be true.
Why don’t you be his adviser .. then I’m sure you could do a much better job.. look at the reality.
Amazingly Trump did very well with even some poor advisors and he got rid of a lot of them pretty fast that weren’t very good advisors
Absolutely
That was a perfect description
All of that was the first step in flexing its
public muscle towards the nation
and they are still actively doing that-
every oe in a while you hear a story about
someone they are looking forbor those
still incarcerated and not brought to trial
Oh there are so many perfect people... what 30 pieces of silver what in Heaven’s name are you talking about
Now that’s some serious journalism right there.
“ex-President”
FU, ATT
A winner..
Tell that to the GOPe rah rah club here
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