Mulvaney Tells Reporter: ‘Get Over’ Quid Pro Quo: ‘It Happens All The Time’ | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, during a press conference, says that President Trump’s desire to investigate the "DNC server” was part of the reason Ukraine aide was held up. Aired on 10/17/19.
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Mulvaney Tells Reporter: ‘Get Over’ Quid Pro Quo: ‘It Happens All The Time’ | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

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    1. @KentBalzer only if Russia cheats gor him again and sabotages the voting booths. We do not need this nightmare criminal in for a second term. Economy be damned.

  1. Mulvaney is crap.  Even if “political influence in foreign policy is used all the time” (which is arguable), it should benefit America, not Trump’s personal agenda.  Not conducted by shadow diplomacy.

    1. @Antony Stringfellow There is always some level of pressure when a large nation asks a smaller nation to do something. This isn’t that, this is extortion.

    2. @David Drake Yeah I think it would have come up if he used it for personal gain, republicans couldn’t stand Obama. Yet all they had to hound him on for years was his birth certificate.

    3. They even complain of the deep state… its illegal ask foreing countrys for dirt of your political opponents MTFKR!

    1. Its called lying FEVER, like an outbreak, contagious to those who get too close to the Orange diseased man!!!

    2. @JoJo x come down from space mountain!!!! Stevie Wonder can see what’s happening with these idiots!!!!!!!!!

    3. JoJo x no I’m afraid YOU have zero knowledge of the Constitution. You absolutely cannot involve a foreign government in any way to help influence the outcome of any Domestic election. Which is EXACTLY what these criminals were doing. There is corruption in every foreign country. WHY just go after Ukraine? And why hide it then cover it up. Oh yeah, I forgot..Hunter Biden. Who is not and has never been an elected official, same as the Trump boys💲💲 who are as we speak are being enriched in countless markets worldwide. Just give up, there should not be any doubts about the POTUS integrity. He’s a corrupt, classless, bigoted moron. And it’s time for you to stand up for America 🗽

    4. @JoJo x, your comprehension is lacking, typical Trumper. Asking for something in exchange for something else is a quid pro quo. Trumpers drink the coolaid and say the only truth is what trump tells us is the truth.

  2. Mick Himmler Mulvaney – I waited for this guy to say: “Elections had consequenses in Germany in 1933 too”

    1. @Bucky Pinata
      Pretty boy all i am getting from putin /trump administration an illegal presidency is that stupidity is a must requirement to be a trumpunzee.

    2. @Bucky Pinata …did you not just hear what that mcmoron (it’s ok I’m Irish) just said?… he ADMITTED to it… you idiots can’t even keep up with your own team… what a bunch of inbred chuckleheads…

    1. @Matt Whiskey this ties in pretty seamlessly with the mueller report, actually. Trump is being paid by Russians. The money is already linked to rudy. Only a matter of time till we see trump’s taxes.

    2. @Hazzycakes Mueller stuck to the official interpretation of relevant law. That does not constitute choosing party over nation, he proved beyond doubt that there was something illegal going on despite any personal misgivings. He when pitched the ball to the people that were responsible for the next step – who promptly dropped it.

    1. @fishhead06 He’s clearly hoping for a plea-deal due to mental incompetence. It might even be justified.

  3. My “interpretation” of having consequences is that we can never ever have a Republican (or a Dem bought by corporations) in office again.

    1. Trump said he would drain the swamp and he is doing it if you look at all the people in the administration who is let go or is leaving due to suspect behavior.

    2. He didn’t admit to anything trust me he spoke very carefully. Nothing about Biden. This was nothing. You can request investigations of past elections. That’s not illegal.

    3. A quid pro quo about the DNC server is every bit as illegal as a quid pro quo about the Bidens. The fact that he lied about one doesn’t magically change the fact that he admitted the other.

    1. He was telling the truth of what they did. Apparently he seems to forget it’s a crime and it is what the president is being impeached for.

    1. Or he is rehearsing his closed door House testimony, he is setting him self up as a member of a criminal conspiracy. Being a cog in some one else’s crime does not exonerate you, he still passed on the direction and did not resign when this was going down. The elections have consequences comment sounds like, Trump got away with felony election interference in 2016 so he should free to do it now because he got away with it.

    1. What’s with these mofos confessing their crimes openly in press conferences? Their excuse seems to be that their crimes are lawful because they’re the ones doing them.

    1. They are only lasting this long because Fox is deploying toxic conspiracy theories, lies and massive deflections but then what else should the America hating right wing do when the truth, facts, logic, honor, integrity and the law are not on their side.

    2. He didn’t say anything about Biden. He said they held the money for an investigation of 2016 im just a farmer from Australia but I’m pretty sure he didn’t say anything illegal. The president can request investigations of elections. Just not request future help. That’s illegal. But he did that so he’s fkd anyway. This is nothing.

    1. CHARLIE o Perfect! And still the trolls squeak their dying squeaks. They’ve stopped believing the evidence before their very eyes.

    1. @Primalxbeast The senate only determines removal not impeachment, Trump may be still subject to criminal trials if he is not reelected.

    2. queenbeethatme100 The person I was responding to said that gaslighting wasn’t going to work for him, and it seems like he’s getting quite a bit of use out of it if it keeps him from getting booted out of office from the Senate. Gaslighting isn’t relevant to the impeachment part of the equation at this point because the House already has enough votes.
      Please try to follow along.

    1. @Nelson Perez no any intelligent person can see he said nothing wrong, he was very carefull. No mention of Biden. And they can withhold aid for a prior investigation of an election. Just not solicit help in a future election but ol trump is on paper doing that so this all means nothing

    2. Al De it is a crime for a president to ask for personal favours from foreign government and its most certainly a crime for a USA president to withhold on aid to a country in exchange for help on opposition research on someone running against him in an upcoming election.

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