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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,234 posts)
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 11:39 PM Oct 2019

Mick Mulvaney's bad week just got worse

Mick Mulvaney’s week went from bad to worse on Sunday, as he again tried to explain why President Donald Trump and the administration had withheld aid to Ukraine for weeks — one of the Democrats’ central questions in their impeachment inquiry.

Mulvaney fumbled during an interview on “Fox News Sunday” when he cited two reasons for the delay, whereas he had originally listed three during his Thursday press briefing at the White House. He continued to blame reporters for any misunderstanding, a feat that can be tough to pull off when his answers were all delivered on camera and when the host, Chris Wallace, kept rolling that tape.

And he threw red meat to liberals and Democratic presidential candidates who have long questioned the appropriateness of the Trump family continuing to profit from its business holdings while Trump serves as president.

“At the end of the day, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business,” Mulvaney said to Wallace about Trump’s original decision to hold the next G7 summit at his resort in Doral, Fla. — a decision he reversed late Saturday.

“I just have to pick up: You say he considers himself in the hospitality business?” Wallace asked. “He’s the president of the United States.”

Mulvaney’s interview did not play well among Trump allies and advisers, with one calling it a “self-immolation.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mick-mulvaneys-bad-week-just-got-worse/ar-AAJ4PM9?li=BBnb7Kz

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Mick Mulvaney's bad week just got worse (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP
For right now there's no better guy than Mulvaney to self-immolate, imho, Captain Zero Oct 2019 #1
HA! Adsos Letter Oct 2019 #3
trump wants to make Mulvaney the fall guy. nt ecstatic Oct 2019 #2
dt's "useful idiot". nt babylonsister Oct 2019 #4
I literally cackled loudly when I heard this... littlemissmartypants Oct 2019 #5
That's must be why he is a successful casino xxqqqzme Oct 2019 #8
someone should ask the Kurds about hospitality Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2019 #6
:( Cha Oct 2019 #7
Kim Kardashian should lecture him about Turkish hospitality toward non-Turks. JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2019 #11
He'll be gone by Friday eom LittleGirl Oct 2019 #9
Pretty soon Trump will say he totally supports Mulvaney, then two weeks later, he'll fire him tclambert Oct 2019 #10

Captain Zero

(6,826 posts)
1. For right now there's no better guy than Mulvaney to self-immolate, imho,
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 11:46 PM
Oct 2019

But I'm also hoping there is room for a line to form behind him.

littlemissmartypants

(22,822 posts)
5. I literally cackled loudly when I heard this...
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 12:13 AM
Oct 2019

“At the end of the day, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business,” Mulvaney said


Self-immolation...one can only hope.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,369 posts)
11. Kim Kardashian should lecture him about Turkish hospitality toward non-Turks.
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 05:28 AM
Oct 2019

He won't hear a word, but at least he won't fall asleep during the lecture.

tclambert

(11,087 posts)
10. Pretty soon Trump will say he totally supports Mulvaney, then two weeks later, he'll fire him
Mon Oct 21, 2019, 01:46 AM
Oct 2019

by tweet. He would never risk firing someone face to face. They might say something that would hurt his fragile self-image.

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