White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney had quite the day. After announcing next year's G-7 Summit would take place on President Trump's Doral property outside Miami, he acknowledged the Trump Administration withheld military aid to Ukraine unless it opened investigations into Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton:
I have news for everybody: Get over it. There's going to be political influence in foreign policy. That is going to happen. Elections have consequences, and foreign policy is going to change from the Obama administration to the Trump administration.
So there was quid pro quo after all.
Foreign policy does not involve exerting influence. American Presidents call for the release of political prisoners, free and fair elections, a free press, an independent judiciary and other democratic reforms. Foreign policy does not involve refusing to meet the democratically elected leader of a foreign country unless they investigate President Trump's political opponents.
Today, Mick Mulvaney basically told America and the rest of the world, 'We're corrupt and what the hell are you going to do about it?'
I believe you can add another count to the impeachment charges.
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