https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-acting-chief-staff-mick-mulvaney/
Press Briefing by Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney
Issued on: October 17, 2019
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MR. MULVANEY: ....If you read the news reports and you believe them — what did McKinney say yesterday? Well, McKinney said yesterday that he was really upset with the political influence in foreign policy. That was one of the reasons he was so upset about this. And I have news for everybody: Get over it. There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy.
Q What about the Bidens, Mr. Mulvaney?
MR. MULVANEY: I’m talking to Mr. Karl. That is going to happen. Elections have consequences. And foreign policy is going to change from the Obama administration to the Trump administration....
If you read the OP in the thread, titled:
Dec. 6 specially decorated Bush '41 Train engine, was Billy Joe Lord on board?
You would likely agree that Billy Joe Lord was, in March, 1977, sending a cry for help from newly inaugurated POTUS Jimmy Carter. My research supports that the people pressuring Billy Joe Lord to co-operate with author Henry Hurt, Bush's lifelong friend,
Bemiss providing advice to Hurt on how to leverage Lord's employment at the Midland newspaper published by former Bush campaign manager and political advisor Jim Allison, were surrogates of President Carter's main political rivals.
3-1/2 years later, it was Carter, himself under the direct pressure of those same political rivals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan
February 6, 1911 Tampico, Illinois, U.S.
John M. Shaheen (1915 in Lee County, Illinois – 1 November 1985 in New York) was an American financier and businessman. He had been involved in oil and life insurance.[1] John was of Lebanese ancestry.
.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shaheen
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-11-03-8503150277-story.html
JOHN M. SHAHEEN, 70, OIL COMPANY PRESIDENT
Special to The Tribune CHICAGO TRIBUNE 3 November, 1985
.....Mr. Shaheen, who died Friday in New York, was born in Lee County, Ill., and spent his early years in Tampico, Ill. He attended the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago.....
To make a long story, short, Rand was the employer of defector Robert E Webster,
Shaheen and V.P. Bush were investigated in the matter of "The October Surprise," linked to the defeat of Jimmy Carter in December, 1980.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theoryJudge Richard Leon was overruled on appeal, four times in the very long lawsuit proceedings in Morley vs. CIA. Despite this extraordinary number of successful appeals, Judge Leon made little or no changes to his pre-appeal rulings, all were favorable to the CIA and counter to the right to know of the American people and counter to precedent with regard to the CIA paying the legal costs of plaintiff Morley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Leon
...Federal judicial service
Leon was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by George W. Bush on September 10, 2001, ....
Leon was appointed chief minority counsel on the October Surprise Task Force of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 1992 to 1993...
Bush's alibi as to his whereabouts on October, 1980, days relevant to the October Surprise inquiry was withheld for many years but more recently was identified as a fellow, Yale "boodle boy."
https://consortiumnews.com/2011/09/27/taking-a-bush-secret-to-the-grave/
Taking a Bush Secret to the Grave
The National Archives has approved an appeal by journalist Robert Parry seeking release of a 30-year-old secret, the address where George H.W. Bush supposedly went on an October weekend in 1980, when several witnesses put Bush in Paris meeting with Iranians. But it turns out the “alibi witness” is now dead. September 27, 2011
