Mick ("I've taken out a third mortgage on my soul" ) Mulvaney is saying: "Well, it's obvious, isn't it? Of course there was a
quid pro quo. . . . That's how these things work. . . .
Get over it! . . . Ukraine gets its $400 million in military aid, and the President gets to expose his rival as a corrupt fraud. . . . On second thought, I don't mean to imply the President was asking anything in return. . . . In fact a
quid pro quo was out of the question. . . . I think the President made that clear. . . What's so hard to understand about that?"