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"Call your office" nghĩa là gì?
17 Dec, 2023
Mick Mulvaney, acting White House chief of staff, speaks to reporters at the White House. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
'Call your office' = gọi về văn phòng đi -> trước thời có thiết bị liên lạc di động (như máy nhắn tin, điện thoại di động), ai đó ở sự kiện công chúng có thể được yêu cầu ra nhận điện thoại gấp từ văn phòng, trụ sở làm việc. Trong bối cảnh này, ngụ ý ai đó không hiểu được tầm quan trọng của thông tin – vì vậy lý lẽ của họ không đủ thấu đáo và vô dụng.
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Mick Mulvaney, please call your office: A long list of aides (phụ tá) to President Trump could have appeared in the House (hạ viện) impeachment hearings (phiên điều trần luận tội) to defend his efforts in Ukraine, especially since the president insists (nhất quyết, khăng khăng) everything he did was “perfect.” Gordon Sondland, Trump’s ambassador (đại sứ) to the European Union, rattled off (đọc liến láu, đọc thẳng một mạch (bài học, bài diễn văn)) their names when he testified (làm chứng): Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, former national security advisor John Bolton, Energy Secretary Rick Perry. “Everyone was in the loop,” Sondland testified, and the address list on his emails backed him up.
But Trump told his lieutenants to refuse the House Democrats’ requests. Even if he thinks the rules were unfair, it suggests a lack of confidence in his own case. The president said he’s thinking about sending Congress a written statement, but given his bottomless record of dishonesty it wouldn’t be worth the paper his lawyers wrote it on. Of all the missing witnesses, though, Mulvaney stands apart. Aside from Trump and his freewheeling lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Mulvaney knows the most about the attempt to muscle Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden and other Democrats.
It was Mulvaney, witnesses said, who organized the “unofficial channel” of envoys who negotiated with Kyiv: Sondland, Perry and special envoy Kurt Volker.
It was Mulvaney who cut Bolton and his staff out of the negotiations, and ignored their objections to the politically motivated probe, to the point that Bolton denounced the machinations as a “drug deal.”
It was Mulvaney who carried out Trump’s order to block nearly $400 million in congressionally mandated military aid to Ukraine in July. The aid was released only after Congress began to investigate in September.
It was Mulvaney who set up the now-infamous July 25 telephone call when Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden and a debunked conspiracy theory from the 2016 election.
And in a scandal where Republicans have complained about a lack of firsthand witnesses, it was Mulvaney who worked next to the Oval Office and talked with the president almost every working day.
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