Mick Mulvaney panics after realizing he just threw his life away
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney screwed up so badly when he confessed to Donald Trump’s Ukraine quid pro quo today, it prompted everyone from Trump’s DOJ to Trump’s personal attorney to instantly try to distance themselves from what had just transpired. Now, too late to matter, Mulvaney is panicking over what he just said.
After Mick Mulvaney left the press briefing, he apparently figured out what the rest of us already instantly knew: he’d just thrown his life away. Mulvaney publicly confessed to his role in a felony criminal conspiracy, in front of the cameras no less. Once Trump is gone – and that’ll likely happen sooner as a result of Mulvaney’s words – we’ll see Mulvaney indicted and arrested. Unless he gets a magic pardon from Trump that we all know isn’t coming, Mulvaney is going to prison for a long time. The jury will convict him based on the video of this press conference alone.
Not surprisingly, after Mulvaney figured out that he’d just made the mistake of a lifetime, he tried to walk it back, saying this to the Wall Street Journal: “Let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo.”
The trouble is, it’s too late now. Mick Mulvaney can’t take back what he said just by belatedly announcing that he wants to take it back. It’s out there now. Mulvaney is going to prison – and he just helped send Donald Trump there as well. It’s fitting that on the day Rick Perry is resigning, it’s Mulvaney who had his “oops” moment.
