\u201cIn effect, Mr. Mulvaney hopes the court will tell him whether to listen to his own boss, who wants him to remain silent, or to comply with a subpoena from the House, which wants his testimony,\u201d the newspaper reported. \u201cThat put Mr. Mulvaney at odds with some other current White House and administration officials who had simply defied the House, citing the president\u2019s order not to cooperate with what he called an illegitimate \u2018witch hunt.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The paper interviewed historian Chris Whipple, author of the book The Gatekeepers<\/em> on the history of White House chiefs of staff.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s symptomatic of a White House that is more dysfunctional than ever \u2014 except now it\u2019s not just chaos, the long knives are coming out,\u201d Whipple said. \u201cEverybody, including the White House chief, seems to be lawyering up.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGiven that Mulvaney has been willing to do almost anything for Trump, it\u2019s remarkable that he\u2019s asking for a second opinion,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n source:NYT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president\u2019s legal defense in the impeachment inquiry has taken a bizarre turn. \u201cEven in a White House of never-befores, this may be one of the more head-spinning: The president\u2019s chief of staff is trying to join a lawsuit against the president,\u201d The New York Times reported Saturday. \u201cMick Mulvaney works only about 50 steps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4076,6369,887,8256,4075,10507,4074,12005,4073,2470,990,11973,3805,184,6571,2982,3954,594],"class_list":["post-14589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-author-of-the-book-the-gatekeepers-on-the-history-of-white-house-chiefs-of-staff","tag-chaos","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-chiefs","tag-chris-whipple","tag-court","tag-impeachment-inquiry","tag-judge","tag-mick-mulvane","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-new-york","tag-one","tag-president","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50770,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589\/revisions\/50770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/img.connatix.com\/72105ef8-caf1-42ae-b431-a3aef695d539\/1_th.jpg?mode=crop&width=600&height=338&fit=bounds&crop=600:338,smart\")
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