Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that it wasn’t “unreasonable” for an administration staffer to ask that the USS McCain be hidden during President Trump’s Japan visit last week.
Mulvaney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he believes it was a “probably somebody in the advance team” who told the Navy to hide the ship based on the president’s thoughts over the late senator.
“The president’s feelings toward the former senator are well known,” Mulvaney said, adding that firing someone over the request “is silly.”
“The fact that some 23- or 24-year_old person went to that site and said ‘Oh my goodness, there’s the John McCain we all know how the president feels about the former senator maybe that’s not the best backdrop can somebody look into moving it,’ that’s not an unreasonable thing to ask,” Mulvaney said.
The Navy confirmed Saturday receiving a request to “minimize visibility” of the USS John S. McCain, named for the late senator’s grandfather.
……..
- Discussion
-
JUST IN: Mulvaney says it wasn’t “unreasonable” for White House to ask to move USS John McCain for Trump visit https://t.co/vD0ZrIRnHf pic.twitter.com/QFe70sP85C
— The Hill (@thehill) June 2, 2019
Pathetic https://t.co/VHywiw9VQy
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 2, 2019
It was an unreasonable (and arrogant, and unseemly) thing for a WH staffer to ask the Navy to move a ship, and it is unreasonable (and arrogant, and unseemly) for the WH COS to defend this.
Trumpism corrupts. https://t.co/vvC65nmO2p— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 2, 2019
What else would they do to “please” Trump?
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.