Mick Mulvaney’s Lawyer Denies Ukraine Claims Reported in John Bolton’s Book

Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget at a White House press briefing in Washington on March 22, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

A lawyer for White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney pushed back against reports that he was involved in discussions about holding hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Ukraine in exchange for investigations.

“John Bolton never informed Mick Mulvaney of any concerns surrounding Bolton’s purported August conversation with the president,” his lawyer, Bob Driscoll, said in a statement (pdf) on Monday. “Nor did Mr. Mulvaney ever have a conversation with the president or anyone else indicating that Ukrainian military aid was withheld in exchange for a Ukrainian investigation of Burisma, the Bidens, or the 2016 election.”