Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, said Sunday the president will likely be ostracized from the GOP because of his role in the deadly breach of the Capitol building last week.
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Mulvaney, who resigned his position as special envoy for Northern Ireland after the rampage by rioters, said “Wednesday changed everything.”
“I think [being ostracized by the party] is going to happen anyway,” he said. “I think the ideas will live on. The ideas of the Republican Party are bigger than one man. If you any role at all in what happened Wednesday, you don't deserve to lead the party anymore.”
“I was elected in the Tea Party wave of 2010, sort of the precursor of the Trump movement,” he added. “I can't tell you the number of people who supported me for a decade who said Wednesday is a bridge too far.“
According to Mulvaney, Wednesday’s Capitol breach was “a fundamental threat to the United States.”
“It speaks to what makes us American,” he said. “It's not superficial. It's deep and it's real and it' different which is why you saw so many resignations this week and didn't see them over the course of the last couple years. Wednesday changed everything.”
Mulvaney said he knows that Trump has acted “presidentially” in the past, and that “I never thought I'd see what I saw on Wednesday.”
“The President used to love debate,” he said. “He would love to get information from all sorts of different sides. I'm not sure that's happening now, and if there aren’t people just reaffirming and re-amplifying what he thinks he wants them to say.”
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