The Latest: Mulvaney says Ukraine remarks were misconstrued

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says his comments about the Trump administration s decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine have been misconstrued.

Mulvaney issued his statement after the president s outside legal counsel tried to distance itself from Mulvaney s earlier comments at a press briefing.

Mulvaney now says there was no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and that country s willingness to investigate the 2016 U.S. election.

via apnews.com

Not that it takes the violation of some statute, but is there anything remotely illegal or unconstitutional about the Chief Executive of the United States engaging in exactly a quid pro quo to encourage some foreign president to investigate his political opponents for corruption? I’m not getting the outrage here. Poor Mulvaney. He had one of those whatcha-muh-callem moments.