A zealous budget-cutting former congressman from South Carolina who had helped found the renegade House Freedom Caucus, Mulvaney like other Republicans originally saw Trump as a danger to the Constitution and one of the most flawed people ever to run for the White House. Trump, he had said in 2016, was “a terrible human being” with a record of saying “disgusting and indefensible” things about women.[14] Yet when the chance to join Trump’s White House as budget director arose, Mulvaney eagerly sought it out, developing a case of selective amnesia and proving surprisingly willing to sacrifice
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