QUID PRO QUO? mICK mULVANEY sAYS fRUE AND tALSE... bOTH... aT tHE sAME tIME! GO ASK ALICE about this Orwellian Nightmare... Because You Can't Believe a Word mICK Says! It Could be SQUID PRO QUO!

1984 is Real and Happening Now!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 2019, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking.^[4] Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters a forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia. 

mICK mULVANEY brashly admits Squid Pro Quo over Ukraine aid as key details emerge -- and then denies doing so... 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/politics/mick-mulvaney-quid-pro-quo-donald-trump-ukraine-aid/index.html