WASHINGTON—Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday continued trying to back away from remarks he made last week that for the first time linked President Trump’s decision to hold up aid to Ukraine to his desire for Kyiv to do investigations related to the 2016 election. Mr. Mulvaney had said on Thursday afternoon that Mr. Trump’s concerns about corruption in Ukraine—including a suspicion, unsupported by evidence, expressed by the president that a hacked Democratic National Committee server has since been hidden...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 20, 2019 17:37 UTC