Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on Wednesday that he had helped talk President Donald Trump out of a war with Iran in 2019. Mulvaney wrote on X that whenever someone pushed for war with Iran that year, he or a member of his team would ask Trump if he “really wanted to be in a war in Iran going into an election.” “And he wisely decided against the action,” he added. “Too bad no one was there to make that argument this …