Trump's Next Chief of Staff Called Him 'A Terrible Human Being' Just Before He Was Elected President

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

Mick Mulvaney, the Office of Management and Budget Director who President Donald Trump tweeted Friday would serve as acting chief of staff after John Kelly departs in January, has been a loyal Trump supporter — he just didn’t always like it so much.

During a debate with his then-congressional challenger, Democrat Fran Person, on Nov. 2 of 2016, less than a week before Trump was elected president, then- congressman Mulvaney was blunt with those gathered at York Middle School in York, South Carolina.

After decrying the Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a liberal who would take the country in the wrong direction, Mulvaney said he was supporting Trump, essentially by default.

“Yes, I am supporting Donald Trump, but I’m doing so despite the fact that I think he’s a terrible human being,” he said, according to a report in The State newspaper.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-next-chief-of-staff-called-him-a-terrible-human-being-just-before-he-was-elected-president

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Tonight's Daily Beast article has video of Mulvaney saying that.


Link to that 2016 newspaper article they cite:

https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article112195367.html

Mulvaney had some strong words about presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

“We have perhaps two of the most flawed human beings running for president in the history of the country,” Mulvaney said. “Yes, I am supporting Donald Trump, but I’m doing so despite the fact that I think he’s a terrible human being.”

I can't recall hearing about that statement of Mulvaney's before.

Now I'm wondering how Trump will react as this gets more attention with the Daily Beast digging it up and publishing it.

[Guppy]

1. Funny

I think Mark Mulvaney is a terrible person.

[dalton99a]

2. There are no decent human beings in the GOP.

[joshdawg]

4. Yes! Yes!

This above all else is true!!

[marylandblue]

3. Next headline: 100% of Americans think Trump is a terrible human being

100% also said they'd work in the Russian Gulag than work for him. 40% say "at least he doesn't use email."

[riversedge]

5. @mickMulvaneyOMB is a flawed @GOP human being

[Aristus]

6. Asshole.

He made sure to get in a pro forma dig at Hillary Clinton. It's like they're not allowed to criticize fellow Republicans unless they also take a cheap shot at one of the Clintons.

I guess that's how they keep the coked-up chimps in their party from flinging their shit everywhere...

[Marcuse]

7. They all paid lip service to decency before bending the knee to *45.

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/07/the-gops-brutal-responses-to-the-new-trump-video-broken-down/|

Three dozen Republicans have now called for Donald Trump to drop out
By Aaron Blake
October 9, 2016
Watch: Donald Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005

In this video from 2005, Donald Trump prepares for an appearance on 'Days of Our Lives' with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush and actress Arianne Zucker. (Obtained by The Washington Post)
Almost nobody in the Republican Party is defending Donald Trump right now, in the wake of a new Washington Post report showing him speaking in very lewd terms about women in 2005.

And the denunciations that have rolled in so far are coming from all sides of the party — from those who support Trump to those who have long opposed him to those close to him who are offering platitudes about how what he said was wrong, but that he's still better than Hillary Clinton. A growing number of them are even calling for him to end his campaign.

Below, the five emerging categories of Trump critics, along with his few defenders: