Acting White House Chief of Staff Mulvaney acknowledges President Trump held up Ukraine aid partly for political reasons.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has a message for those concerned that President Donald Trump held up military aid to Ukraine until they moved to investigate a conspiracy involving the 2016 U.S election —"Get over it."
In a White House summary of the call, Trump asked Zelenskiy for a"favor" shortly after Zelenskiy 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 son Hunter Biden.
Mulvaney on Thursday said part of the reason the aid to Ukraine was held up was because the president had concerns about corruption in the Ukraine related to the 2016 election. Mulvaney said the president also has a strong distaste for foreign aid and doesn't like"spending money overseas." Asked if Ukraine's decision whether or not to probe the matter played a role in the nearly $400 million in aid that was frozen shortly before the July phone call, Mulvaney said"yes," adding the money"ultimately then flowed."
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