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    Michael Hiltzik: Here are all the reasons CBS News should never have hired Trump aide Mick Mulvaney

    Staff members at CBS News are in an uproar over the venerable news department's hiring of former Trump White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as a news commentator. Their indignation is understandable and proper. Mulvaney, a longtime Republican functionary, distinguished himself during his tenure in the administration as a loyal Trump lackey. He showed a micron-deep understanding of ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Apr 01, 2022 5 minutes
    Mick Mulvaney, as acting White House chief of staff, attends an Oval Office meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 27, 2019.

    Staff members at CBS News are in an uproar over the venerable news department's hiring of former Trump White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as a news commentator.

    Their indignation is understandable and proper. Mulvaney, a longtime Republican functionary, distinguished himself during his tenure in the administration as a loyal Trump lackey.

    He showed a micron-deep understanding of political and economic issues even when he served as Trump's budget director and acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

    But he displayed a bottomless capacity to promote Trump's political goals, which boiled down the evisceration of federal programs aimed at helping the average American.

    We'll get into the details in a moment. But first, let's examine the explanation that CBS brass offered to the network's news staff when they questioned Mulvaney's hiring.

    "Being able to make sure that we are getting access to both sides, who was working from a bootlegged recording of the meeting. "A lot of the people that we're bringing in are helping us in terms of access to that side of the equation."

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