Trump is 'in the hospitality business,' Mulvaney says, after president reverses plan to host summit
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Source: Yahoo News
(full title) Trump is 'in the hospitality business,' Mulvaney says, after president reverses plan to host summit at his golf club
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday defended President Trump’s decision — reversed in a tweet late Saturday — to host next year’s G-7 summit at his resort hotel near Miami, saying the president “still considers himself to be in the hospitality business".
In a pointed interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” Mulvaney also defended his controversial remarks that on their face supported the case that Trump had offered to resume military aid to Ukraine in exchange for help from that country’s president in pursuing an investigation into the 2016 U.S. election. He said his words were taken out of context — he never uttered the damaging phrase “quid pro quo” — but Wallace didn’t seem convinced.
... Mulvaney, who had previously dismissed Camp David as a G-7 meeting site, said that Trump was “honestly surprised at the level of pushback” over the plan to host next year’s gathering at Trump National Doral golf resort in Florida.
... “At the end of the day he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business, and he saw an opportunity to take the biggest leaders from around the world and he wanted to put on the absolute best show, the best visit that he possibly could, and he was very comfortable doing that at Doral,” Mulvaney said. “I think we were all surprised at the level of pushback. I think it’s the right decision to change and we’ll have to find someplace else, and my guess is we’ll find someplace else the media won’t like for another reason.”
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-is-in-the-hospitality-business-mulvaney-says-after-president-reverses-plan-to-host-summit-at-his-golf-club-163155652.html
Kadia Tubman Reporter, Yahoo News, October 20, 2019
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And Wallace pushes back and then ensues an incredible and funny dialog (in a pathetic way).
There's also plenty of dialog and background on Mulvaney reversing himself on whether Trump was holding back on military aid to Ukraine in exchange for information on a political rival. ... "He said his words were taken out of context — he never uttered the damaging phrase “quid pro quo” — but Wallace didn’t seem convinced."
There's a video of it at the link.
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editing it by cutting off the end, maybe I could have edited it by removing excess characters from near the beginning. 
at the rate he's going the past couple of days. Which begs the question, "will he flip for a deal?".
