Mick Mulvaney just revealed how little the White House has thought through its impeachment strategy

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Mick Mulvaney just revealed how little the White House has thought through its impeachment strategy
by Kaylee McGhee
 | October 18, 2019 01:04 PM

The White House’s impeachment strategy seems to be a kind of political “Because I said so!” Hesitant to explain the details of President Trump’s questionable Ukraine dealings, the administration is demanding we trust his judgment first and ask questions later.

No wonder the White House can’t get its story straight.

First, the White House said Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “perfect” and that there was no quid pro quo. But yesterday, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said that the administration did in fact withhold congressionally approved funding from Ukraine to force Zelensky to investigate “the corruption related to the DNC servers” during the 2016 election. When a reporter pointed out that what Mulvaney had just described was the textbook definition of quid pro quo, Mulvaney responded, “We do that all the time with foreign policy.”

Then Mulvaney walked back his statement, blaming the media for “misconstruing” his comments to “advance a biased and political witch-hunt against President Trump” and declaring that there was “absolutely no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election.”

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