In his eye-popping press conference last week, White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said that the Trump administration withheld military aide from Ukraine in part to secure cooperation with a Justice Department investigation into the origins of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. But a former top U.S. envoy to Ukraine has said the DOJ never actually asked the White House for that help.
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The Daily Beast: Mulvaney’s Ukraine story undercut by Trump’s former diplomat
White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 17, 2019.
