FAKE NEWS: Liberal Media Falsely Claims White House Admitted to Quid Pro Quo with Ukraine
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If you were watching CNN or other liberal media outlets Thursday afternoon, you might have heard the bizarre claim that the White House has admitted to a quid pro quo with Ukraine. CNN even had a breaking news banner saying as much:
This is fake news. What CNN and other liberal media outlets are editorializing about is acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's statement during a press briefing about the withholding of military aid to Ukraine. “The money held up had absolutely nothing to do with Biden,” Mulvaney said. He pointed out that Trump wanted Ukraine's help with “an ongoing investigation into the 2016 election” involving the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's server, which was believed to have been hacked by Russian agents and ultimately ended up in Ukraine.
Did Mulvaney ever use the term quid pro quo or admit to one? Nope. Here's how CNBC described the exchange :
While Mulvaney did not himself use the term “quid pro quo,” when he was told by a reporter during a White House press conference that the situation of withholding aid to get Ukraine was in fact a quid pro quo, Mulvaney said, “We do that all the time.”
“You’re saying the president of the US can’t ask someone to help with an ongoing public investigation?” Mulvaney said.
During a July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky — at a time when the White House was withholding military aid from Zelensky’s country — Trump asked Zelensky to “get to the bottom” of questions about the 2016 election.
None of this is new information. We knew from the transcript that President Trump asked for Ukraine's help in the ongoing investigation into the 2016 election. We also know that Ukraine didn't even know that the military aid was being withheld until a month after Trump's call with President Zelensky. “I have news for everybody," Mulvaney said. "Get over it. There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy ... that’s going to happen. Elections have consequences.”
This is true. Obama threatened to cut off aid to Nigeria over anti-gay legislation in the country in 2011, and again in 2013 over corruption issues . Joe Biden and the entire media argue that his threat to withhold a billion-dollar loan to Ukraine unless they fired their head prosecutor was not a quid pro quo because, they say, the prosecutor was corrupt.
Despite this, the media is claiming, falsely, that the White House has admitted to a quid pro quo . Other outlets like HuffPost , The Daily Beast , Washington Post , have all echoed the claim. The New York Times falsely claimed in a tweet that Mulvaney admitted aid was cut off to Ukraine to pressure them to investigate Democrats . Adam Schiff is claiming Mulvaney's statement has made things "much, much worse."
Yeah, not at all.
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This seed is gaslighting.
Even with their own eyes and ears they still are blind and deaf to Crooked donnie and his quid pro quo.
There was quid pro quo, they admitted it, so what and GET OVER IT
SO true, but they won't be getting away with it. I just can't wait till this whole thing is a distant memory. I am sick to death of Putin's puppet and all these RW enablers.
Twitter Critics Bash Mulvaney For Ordering Us Not To Believe Our Own Ears
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney pulled an astounding about-face Thursday when he flatly denied he said what he’d said about a quid pro quo in President Donald Trump ’s pressure on Ukraine to launch an investigation into his political rivals. But Mulvaney was captured on video — and critics on Twitter are going with what they actually heard him say.
“I heard you say it loud and clear today. Real time. Out of your mouth,” one complained.
Mulvaney explained at a press conference that the U.S. withheld nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine in part to pressure the nation to investigate Trump’s debunked conspiracy theory that Democrats manipulated the 2016 election.
“ That’s why we held up the money ,” announced Mulvaney. ABC News reporter Jon Karl noted: “To be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo.” Mulvaney responded: “We do that all the time with foreign policy.”
He later added: “Get over it. There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy .... Elections have consequences .”
A couple of quotes from George Orwell's 1984 that sums the current administration up pretty well.
haha..Biden is toast.
What this all really amounts to is the Democrats proving again they don't think they have a candidate to beat Trump. Impeachment is their only option. They are increasing the bullshit by the day in the vain hopes they can convince Senate Republicans to give them the White House; and Senate.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears (today's deporables - Deaf, Dumb and Blind).
It was their final, most essential command." (George Orwell, "1984").
WTactualF? Is somebody trying to tell us what we all saw and heard with our eyes and ears? Is somebody gaslighting what we've seen Trump or his goons say and do? Those who know the truth know about the false equivalency Trump is trying to push continuously, so it only works for people who don't pay attention. Meantime the dam keeps breaking, more and more who know the disaster behind the scenes are starting to find their balls.