Second Trump administration staffer resigns

  • Speechwriter David Sorensen resigned Friday after the White House learned of the allegations against him 
  • Sorensen’s ex-wife claimed he was violent and emotionally abusive during their two-and-a-half year marriage
  • Staff secretary Rob Porter, one of the president’s closest aides, resigned Wednesday after the publication of abuse allegations 
  • Sorensen denies the accusations  

A second White House staffer has departed the Trump administration in the wake of abuse allegations.

Spokesman Raj Shah confirms speechwriter David Sorensen resigned Friday after the White House learned of the allegations against him.  

Shah says Sorensen denies the allegations, which were first reported by The Washington Post.

Speechwriter David Sorensen resigned Friday after the White House learned of the allegations against him

The Post says Sorensen’s ex-wife claimed he was violent and emotionally abusive during their two-and-a-half year marriage.

Sorensen’s ex-wife claimed he was violent and emotionally abusive during their two-and-a-half year marriage

Sorensen’s ex-wife claimed he was violent and emotionally abusive during their two-and-a-half year marriage

Sorensena, a White House staffer who worked under senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, turned in his resignation as the the Washington Post was working on a story about abuse claims by his ex-wife, Jessica Corbett.

Corbett told the post that she told the FBI about the abuse claims last fall as the agency was conducting a background check of Sorensen. 

Staff secretary Rob Porter, one of the president’s closest aides, resigned Wednesday after the publication of allegations that he’d abused his two ex-wives. He, too, denies the allegations.

 

 



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