MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once said Donald Trump’s past words and actions would disqualify him from becoming president in an ‘ordinary universe.’ Mulvaney made the comments in a previously unreported October 2016 radio interview in which he also said Trump is not a role model and has said “atrocious things.” On October 7, 2016, a week before Mulvaney made the comments, the Access Hollywood tape of Trump making lewd comments about women, including bragging about grabbing them by the genitals, was made public…The resurfacing of Mulvaney’s remarks attacking Trump’s character in 2016 comes as he is being elevated within the President’s orbit. Trump announced on Friday that Mulvaney would serve as acting chief of staff, replacing Gen. John Kelly. Mulvaney currently serves as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. The Daily Beast on Friday reported that Mulvaney, then a congressman, called Trump ‘a terrible human being’ at a November 2016 congressional debate. In a 2016 Facebook post, Mulvaney similarly said he had learned throughout the 2016 campaign that Trump ‘is not a very good person.’ In all instances, Mulvaney said he was supporting Trump, but only because he believed Hillary Clinton would be a worse president.”
–Andrew Kaczynski, “Mick Mulvaney in October 2016: Trump would be disqualified from office in an ‘ordinary universe’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, December 17, 2018 7:19 am