Opinion: Mick Mulvaney is in over his head
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney listens as President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Jan. 2. By James Downie James Downie Digital opinions editor Email Bio Follow Opinions editor March 17 at 4:01 PM Representing the White House Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and on “Fox News Sunday,” acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney had to expect questions about Friday’s terrorist attack on two New Zealand mosques.
I’m a little disappointed, you didn’t put up the next sentence, which the next sentence, because I looked at it last night, was, what about his policies and he’s a leader, and he said, “dear god, no.” Well, the difference is the killer didn’t see either Ocasio-Cortez or Pelosi as a “symbol," only the president. That he didn’t agree with Trump’s methods doesn’t make it any less disturbing that he liked what he thought Trump’s aims were. So while, as Wallace put it, “the only person responsible for this slaughter is the shooter," the shooter’s own words make it fair to raise Trump in the context of the attack.
But Mulvaney forgot to mention that, as The Post’s Shane Harris reports, while the United States and close allies such as New Zealand do pool intelligence on groups such as al-Qaeda, “there’s no comparable arrangement for sharing intelligence about domestic terrorist organizations, including right-wing extremists." This clear gap exists even though “nationalist groups in different countries are drawing inspiration from each other” over the Internet.
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