06-02-2019, 12:13 PM
(06-02-2019, 11:29 AM)Duchess Wrote:(06-02-2019, 10:37 AM)BigMark Wrote: Yeah, very douchie move. He's king of the drama.
The Navy & the WH both confirmed it and trump is still running around calling it fake news.
Looks like you spun out of context Liberal Mainstream talking points again. Mulvaney thinks that one of many low level people was concerned and trying to act in teh President's interests and that it is a bit of a nothing burger. It really is. They probably ought not have done it but so fucking what?
Chris - During the President's trip to...actually before he went to Japan, the White House military office sent this email to the navy and I want to read it "USS John MCCain needs to be out of sight". Once the email went public here is the President's reaction
Donald Trump - "Somebody did it because they thought I did not like him okay? They were well-meaning, I will say, I didn't know anything about it. I would have never done that"
Chris - Two questions, I got about 30 seconds for you, What does the President mean by it was well-meaning? And second, as White House Chief of Staff determined how it was that someone in the white house decided it would be a good idea to hide the ship that is in honor of an American war hero.
Mulvaney - In the 15 seconds left I will give you 30, the President didn't know about this, I did not know about it. Literally hundreds of people are involved in moving the President overseas. His feelings on the senator are well known, the fact that a low-level person might have asked the question shouldn't surprise anybody. We think it is much ado about nothing.
Chris - Will someone in the White House be disciplined?
Mulvaney - For what? For asking an innocuous question about that? Does someone get disciplined at Fox News for saying that so-and-so doesn't want to sit next to so-and-so at a meeting? This is a minor issue and the media is trying to make into a larger matter.
Chris - Well let me say to pursue it, that the Pentagon chief Shanahan had his chief of staff call the White House to say that the pentagon must not be politicised, so apparently Patrick Shanahan doesn't think it is a minor idea.
Mulvaney - But again nothing happened because of it. If someone asked a question during the preparation for a trip, if you understood how many people were involve in this, understand the number of folks who could have asked the question and if a 23 or 24 year old says "look is it really a good idea for this ship to be in the background?" That is not an unreasonable question to have and it certainly is not something that is worth taking up 2 minutes of national television on Sunday
By the way from this, it is very clear that he thinks that it is not unreasonable for a low level person to think "look is it really a good idea for this ship to be in the background?". He thinks it is not unreasonable for them to think that and not worth 2 minutes worth of national news coverage over it. It does not mean that HE thinks that HE or the President would react that way or that it is uniformly fine BUT specifically that a low level white house staff involved in the travel arrangements may have thought about this. THAT is what he was saying but that is NOT what you just said. You said that HE thought it was fine. THAT is different.