Mick Mulvaney expresses desire for Trump to not secure GOP nomination for 2024.

Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s acting chief of staff, said on Monday that he hoped the former president would not run again in 2024, and if he did he would lose the Republican nomination.

“We’ve got guys, it’s time for Donald Trump to kind of go to the sidelines, and keep pushing the policies that made him so popular,” Mulvaney said. NewsNation’s Banfield Monday.

The former Republican congressman continued, “We’ve limited my party, but we can have all the politics without a burden, so I hope he doesn’t run.” “And if he does run, I hope he doesn’t win the Republican nomination.”

“We have guys, it’s time for Donald Trump to kind of go to the sidelines, and continue to push the policies that made him so popular,” Mulvaney said on NewsNation’s “Banfield” Monday.

Mulvaney served as Director of the Trump Administration’s Office of Management and Budget from February 2017 to March 2020 and as Deputy Chief of Staff from January 2019 to March 2020. He then became Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, a position he resigned from after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

“He may be the only Republican who can lose to Joe Biden or any other Democrat in 2024,” Mulvaney said of Trump.

The former chief of staff brought up names like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida Sen. Tim Scott, and the former second. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley who said he would be better suited to win the Republican nomination.

When pressed on whether he would vote for Trump if Trump won the Republican nomination, he said, “It’s going to be really tough, knowing what I know about January 6th.”

Mulvaney’s remarks came on the heels of the FBI’s unprecedented raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, which Mulvaney said could be one of his “greatest transgressions”.

“If the FBI doesn’t find a cold body or a smoking gun, I think this would become one of the greatest abuses in the history of law enforcement,” he said. You can’t go to the house of a former boss just because of technical document violations. There must be something really dangerous out there. I can’t imagine what it could be.

Trump announced his decision to run for president in 2024, and said he has already made up his mind and plans to make an official announcement regarding his decision soon.

The arrest warrant used in the raid was released on Friday, showing that the FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents. But the affidavit used in the memo would give more detail about what the agency was really looking for, and Trump has called for his release “unremastered.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday opposed requests to disclose the affidavit used to justify last week’s bomb search by the bureau.

The Department of Justice indicated in a filing to a US District Court that the search warrant and receipt for the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago had already been made public.

But she argued that the affidavit, which outlines the FBI’s probable cause argument for why the search warrant should be approved, presented “a very different set of considerations.”

“He may be the only Republican who can lose to Joe Biden or any other Democrat in 2024,” Mulvaney said of Trump.

“There remain compelling reasons, including protecting the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that is implicated in national security, that support keeping the affidavit sealed,” the department said.

She said the government had a “compelling and overriding interest in preserving the integrity of the ongoing criminal investigation”.

She added that the affidavit contained “extremely important and detailed investigative facts” as well as “very sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government.”

If the court orders the affidavit’s release, the Justice Department said, the required revisions would be “so broad as to render the remaining unsealed transcript devoid of meaningful content.”