COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina lawmaker Mick Mulvaney has resigned as President Trump's Special Envoy to Northern Ireland Thursday morning after witnessing the attack on the Capital by Trump supporters on Wednesday, Jan. 6.
In an exclusive interview with CNBC's Squawk Box, Mulvaney said, “I called [Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo last night to let him know I was resigning from that. I can’t do it. I can’t stay.
“Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they’re worried the president might put someone worse in."
Mulvaney was one of five people turning in resignations after the events of yesterday.
In the CNBC interview, Mulvaney continued, “We didn’t sign up for what you saw last night. We signed up for making America great again, we signed up for lower taxes and less regulation. The president has a long list of successes that we can be proud of.”
He finished his interview by saying Trump was “not the same as he was eight months ago.”
Mulvaney started his political career in the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District from 2007-2009 before being elected to represent the 16th District in the SC Senate 2009-2011. He was elected to represent the state in Washington as SC's 5th District Representative from 2011-2017. In 2019, Mulvaney was named Trump's acting Chief of Staff and was posted as the president's Special Envoy to Northern Ireland in 2020.
