Mick Mulvaney Admits Trump Didn't Know His Main Point Person On Syria

[UCmeNdc]

So Mick Mulvaney tried to blow off the meaning of Brett McGurk's protest resignation when he made the rounds of the yak shows yesterday.

HOST: "His title is the special presidential envoy to the global coalition to counter ISIS. How is it that the president doesn't know his -- the point person in the battle against ISIS?"

MULVANEY: "You know the answer to that, the administration is thousand -- the executive branch of government is millions of people. I have no idea who that person is."

HOST: "You don't know Brett McGurk."

MULVANEY: "Never heard of him until yesterday. There is an Obama appointee who saw an opportunity."

HOST: "He was a Rehnquist clerk, he served throughout the Bush administration, he was a lifelong Republican, he is not an Obama appointee."

MULVANEY: "Did he take that position under the Obama administration?"

HOST: "He was held over from the Bush administration. This is not a Democrat, sir."

MULVANEY: "I'm certain he is well known in the folks who follow this topic. The fact that the president of the United States doesn't know him I don't think should cause anybody any concern."

"Wow. I don't know what to say. Forget about the death of expertise and the death of experts, that's just contempt," Scarborough said. "For basic competence, the state of the White House, now that we're down to the D team, not very good, David Ignatius, and seeming -- David, the fact that neither the acting chief of staff or the president knew who that was is not short of extraordinary. Talk about the president who claims to know more about ISIS than all of the generals, being as ignorant of what has made our fight successful, and also you write today about the state of this abandonment, this cowardly betrayal of the Kurds by Donald Trump. Where does this leave the Kurds?"

"In a mess," the columnist said.


https://crooksandliars.com/2018/12/mick-mulvaney-admits-trump-didnt-know-his

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Trump got the toady he wanted when he picked Mulvaney,

and even Mulvaney didn't want the job on a permanent basis. But it's beyond appalling that neither Trump nor Mulvaney had never heard of Brett McGurk - and when he was told who McGurk was, Mulvaney tried to pass him off as an Obama appointee (which he wasn't) and therefore unimportant. On being informed he was actually a Republican and a Bush holdover, Mulvaney then said he must be someone who is well-known among people "who follow this topic." Dude. You and Trump are supposed to be the people who follow this topic!

[Basement Beat]

2. So anyone who was appointed by President Obama...

is worthless and dismissable in their eyes? WTF.

Such a trash "excuse" to defend 45's idiocy.

[KelleyKramer]

6. He was not an Obama appointee...

From the Original Post above...

HOST: "He was a Rehnquist clerk, he served throughout the Bush administration, he was a lifelong Republican, he is not an Obama appointee."

[Basement Beat]

7. I recognize that.

But the fact that he used that as an "excuse" as if he was some liberal partisan hack, was a bit insane.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. "we're down to the D team" -- not sure it's that good

It seems they're just fielding the water boys at this point. All the practiced members of a team have gone back to the locker room, taken off their pads, and headed home.

[UpInArms]

4. We are down to sycophants and knuckle draggers

😔

[Lock him up.]

5. It's more down to the F team.

As in Failure F-up$