“Did he tell me in the past about corruption related to the server of the National Committee of the Democratic Party? Definitely. Therefore, we delayed (transferring) funds, ”RIA Novosti quoted Mulvaney as saying.
He added that political influence will always take place in foreign policy.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump said that the intelligence officer who filed the complaint because of his telephone conversation with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky completely lost confidence in the inconsistency of his words with the published transcript.