#ETTD:Aides are counseling Trump not to fire Mulvaney, as acting chief of staff changes course again

[OnDoutside]

President Trump has been threatening for weeks to fire acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, but senior advisers have counseled him to hold off on such a drastic step amid a high-stakes impeachment probe, according to three people familiar with the discussions.

Trump has expressed particular anger over Mulvaney’s performance in an Oct. 17 news conference in which Mulvaney stunned White House aides by saying military aid to Ukraine was withheld to pressure its government to launch investigations that could politically benefit Trump, two of the people said. Later, Mulvaney issued a statement saying the media had misconstrued his televised comments and that “there was absolutely no quid pro quo.”

Senior advisers have cautioned Trump that removing Mulvaney at such a sensitive time could be perilous, the people said — both because Mulvaney played an integral role in the decision to freeze the aid, and because of the disruption that would be caused by replacing one of Trump’s most senior aides. “I don’t think you’ll see him going anywhere until after December,” said one Trump adviser, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. “But the president was very unhappy with that press conference. That was a very bad day for the president.”

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Mulvaney’s initial effort to join the Kupperman lawsuit rankled Bolton and Kupperman because they had cited Mulvaney as a critical player in the effort to press the Ukrainian government to pursue investigations helpful to Trump’s domestic political agenda, a move they viewed as improper. Outside legal experts saw Mulvaney’s move to join the case as an effort to secure some legal cover given he had potential exposure because of his private actions seeking to withhold aid to Ukraine and his conflicting public statements about the motives for that blockade.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aides-are-counseling-trump-not-to-fire-mulvaney-as-acting-chief-of-staff-changes-course-again/ar-BBWExlS?li=BBnb7Kz

[malaise]

1. Eat yourselves on live television ReTHUGs

I don't give a flying fuck

[pecosbob]

2. I wish they'd just set themselves on fire on the White House lawn en masse

then we wouldn't have to spend the next couple of years listening to the MSM rehabilitating the names of these scoundrels ala Ollie North and Newt Gingrich. Everyone ready to see Sarah and Kellyanne and on your cable news shows? How about Sebastian Gorka or Stephen Miller?

[malaise]

3. My worry is that they may damage the WH

I want them to face ridicule and scorn as well as to live in absolute poverty and fear for the rest of their sorry lives. Of course the more of them who are sent to prison the better for humanity.

[pecosbob]

4. It's certain that they've damaged the nation as a whole

Ironic justice for Trump would be to see him living in a cardboard box on a sidewalk in the Bronx muttering at passersby about emails and yuge crowds.