Acting White House Chief of Staff
Mick Mulvaney seemed to contradict
President Trump’s claim that there was no “quid pro quo” during his
July 25 phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, by telling reporters at the White House Thursday that the release of military aid to Ukraine was tied to the administration’s demands that Kiev investigate purported corruption by the Democrats during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
When questioned by reporters about the administration’s decision to withhold $400 million in aid from Ukraine, Mulvaney said that Trump told him at the time: "This is a corrupt place. Everyone knows this is a corrupt place ... Plus, I'm not sure that the other European countries are helping them out either.”
Mulvaney added: “Did [Trump] also mention to me, in the past, the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely. No question about that. But that’s it. And that’s why we held up the money ... The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. And that is absolutely appropriate.”
Withholding aid to fight corruption, hmmmm I’ll quote Biden, “well son of a b**ch, the prosecutor was fired”
So yes, funds were withheld for a political purpose. There is no DNC server in Ukraine and no evidence of wrongdoing except by this administration that can’t separate fact from conspiracy.