President’s New Chief of Staff Once Said Trump Would Be Disqualified From Office in an ‘Ordinary Universe’

And He Supported Him Anyway

Mick Mulvaney, who is about to become the President’s Acting Chief of Staff, just two years ago said Trump would be disqualified from office in an “ordinary universe.” At the time, Mulvaney was a sitting Republican U.S. Congressman.

CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reports Mulvaney’s remarks came one week after the “Access Hollywood” bombshell tape dropped, exposing some of Trump’s most disgusting remarks ever.

Mulvaney, who now says he “believes in” President Trump, had a far different take in October of 2016.

“My guess is worse stuff is going to come out in the last 30 days,” Mulvaney said on a South Carolina radio show. “They’ve got more videotapes. Everything the guy’s ever said is on a videotape or an audio tape. There is going to be some atrocious things that are gonna come out.”

But he also made clear he would still not support the Democratic candidate.

“That’s not going to make Hillary Clinton a good candidate for president,” Mulvaney added.

“Should either of these people be, be a role model for my 16-year-old triplets? No,” Mulvaney told the radio station. “In an ordinary universe, would both of these people’s past activities disqualify them for serving for office? Yes. But that’s not the world we live in today. The world we live in today, it’s either him or her and for me that’s still an easy choice.”

In the interview Mulvaney also compared Hillary Clinton to “a man-eating lion.”

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Weeks later, in November of 2016, Mulvaney called Trump “a terrible human being,” as The Daily Beast reported.

Mulvaney is the current director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and will remain in that role as well.

In 2017 Mulvaney infamously claimed Meals on Wheels, the program that puts food in the mouths of home-bound seniors, was “just not showing any results.”