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Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney speaks with U.S. Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) before the signing ceremony for the U.S.-China trade deal in the East Room at the White House in Washington, January 15, 2020.
Kevin Lamarck | Reuters
Trump’s former White House acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, was interviewed Thursday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, he said.
Mulvaney’s interview with the panel was in person, he told CNBC in an email.
CBS News, where Mulvaney works as a contributor, first reported that his interview would take place
Mulvaney, 55, told the news outlet last week that he believes former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and other former staffers who testified about former President Donald Trump and his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters stormed the halls of Congress.
Mulvaney also said Trump should not run for a third term.
“I don’t want him to run. I don’t. Because we don’t need him anymore,” said the former Republican congressman from South Carolina.
Mulvaney served in multiple roles in the Trump administration, first as director of the Office of Management and Budget. During most of his time in that role, he was also acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Mulvaney later served as Trump’s acting chief of staff from January 2019 until March 2020, when the president ousted him and replaced him with then-Congressman Mark Meadows. Trump then appointed him special envoy for Northern Ireland.
Mulvaney resigned from that post the day after the riot, telling CNBC that he called then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he “can’t stay” after the riot.
“Those who choose to stay, and I’ve talked to some of them, choose to stay because they’re worried that the president might appoint someone worse,” Mulvaney told CNBC at the time.
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