What a day. If you didn’t see Mick Mulvaney’s press conference yesterday, it was fucking BONKERS.
White House officials were shocked by Mulvaney’s remarks linking aid to investigations. They expected him to repeat the message that the House was being unfair to Trump and that there was no quid pro quo. @MichaelCBender
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) October 17, 2019
https://t.co/XXkZiulERW
One bit of reporting: State Dept employees, lawyers & comms staffers prepped # Mulvaney in his office just before he went out today. And most people were stunned at what he said when he went out. https://t.co/x23FK7E1pN
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 17, 2019
Ok, in light of Mulvaney's new claim that he never said they held up the money over the "DNC server", let's run the tape. pic.twitter.com/h2Em3GGvYy
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 17, 2019
NEW: Mulvaney walks back today's press briefing: “There never was any condition on the flow of the aid related to the matter of the DNC server.”
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) October 17, 2019
Start the Mulvaney #ETTD death clock. https://t.co/MW7hN2RTRS
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 17, 2019
Mulvaney’s statement is that the truth is the opposite of what he said on television.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 17, 2019
Maybe Mulvaney knows what he’s doing? He’s seen Trump up close, knows he’s a danger to the country, and is purposely trying to get him impeached and removed so his former House colleague Mike Pence can become president?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 17, 2019
insane part about the Mulvaney walk-back is that there were multiple reporters in the briefing room who you could tell were curious if Mulvaney ACTUALLY MEANT what he just said and several people gave him explicit chances, repeating what he'd said back to him, to walk it back…
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) October 17, 2019
Mick Mulvaney is just one more in a long lines of crazy politicians that the people of South Carolina just can’t seem to get enough of.
Senator Lindsey Graham is another bat-shit, crazy politician from South Carolina.
First, Lindsey Graham lost his ability to reason when John McCain died.
Then last week Trump decided that Lindsey’s world view was so unsustainable and ridiculous that he pulled all US troops out of Syria.
That drove poor, old Lindsey the Warmonger right off the edge.
Lindsey has now appointed himself the President of Foreign Policy.
Cuckoo.