Mulvaney on Thursday: 'I was involved with the process by which the money was held up temporarily, OK? Three issues for that...' Mulvaney on Sunday: 'There were two reasons that we held up the aid.'
"Get over it," he said."There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy."Mulvaney's admission angered and confused allies of Trump inside and outside the administration, according to two people familiar with the matter. One of them called Mulvaney’s comments in the White House briefing room"an unmitigated disaster."
In a White House summary of the call, Trump asked Zelenskiy for a"favor" shortly after the latter discussed U.S. military aid. That favor included asking Zelesnkiy to probe aconspiracy theory about a Democratic National Committee email server being in Ukraine, as well as former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
A senior Justice Department official said in response:"If the White House was withholding aid from Ukraine with regard to any investigation by the Justice Department, that’s news to us."
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