President Trump supposedly began testing the idea of replacing his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney well before his aide’s messy attempt to clean up his quid pro quo admission of withholding aid to Ukraine last week.
According to a Bloomberg report Tuesday, Trump has been quietly mulling a Mulvaney replacement in the weeks leading up to the disastrous press conference last Thursday, when Mulvaney made the stunning admission.
Bloomberg reports that about a month ago, Trump told Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in front of other White House staffers: You have such great ideas, why don’t you be my chief?
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Source:: TPM
