The two ex-wives of Rob Porter, the White House aide who resigned today in the wake of domestic abuse allegations, revealed to DailyMail.com they were in contact with a third woman who is believed to be his longtime girlfriend.
The woman, is 34 and works for the federal government in Washington D.C.
DailyMail.com is declining to name her because she is an alleged victim of domestic abuse and she has not come forward. Repeated attempts to contact her have been unsuccessful.
Porter, 40, had been living with the willowy blonde political appointee, who split with him around Thanksgiving, after discovering suggestive text messages between Porter and White House communications director Hope Hicks, one of Trump’s closest and most trusted advisors.
DailyMail.com revealed last week that White House comms director and high level staffer Rob Porter and Hope Hicks are dating, and were seen kissing in a cab on the way back to her apartment
Colbie Holderness, 37, (left) who is a senior analyst for the U.S. government, spoke on the record to DailyMail.com about her five-year marriage following the on-the-record allegations by Rob Porter’s second wife, Jennifer Willoughby (right)
Hicks and Porter were seen kissing in the back of a cab in D.C. last month, in photographs obtained by DailyMail.com.
Both Porter’s ex-wives, Colbie Holderness and Jennifer Willoughby told DailyMail.com that they were contacted in 2016 by the woman describing herself as Porter’s girlfriend.
Colbie told DailyMail.com that while she and Porter were on a vacation in Florence, Italy, a couple of years after they married in the early 2000s, Porter punched her in the face
In messages, reviewed by DailyMail.com, the woman describes abuse from Porter and was reaching out for advice from the ex-wives.
In December 2016, the woman wrote to Holderness: ‘Over the years I have desperately wanted to reach out to you, but Rob forbade me. I have been with Rob off and on now for a little over three years, and don’t know where to turn to discuss my experience or how to escape it.
‘I work in politics, and despite Rob’s repeated abuse, some of which I think many know about, he continues to rise and I’m afraid to go against him. I’m sorry to bother you. I wanted to reach out and hear your story if you are willing to share — as well as how you broke out of it with him and mostly, how you recovered.’
In a later message to Willoughby, she wrote: ‘I guess the questions that keep going through my head are “is it just me?!” and then sort of wondering, just what IS it with Rob, what is his psychological condition and is it redeemable or can he get help??
‘He can go from being the sweetest kindest person to a complete abusive monster in minutes.
‘He makes subtle digs at my clothing, hair, that I’m not “sexy enough” or don’t seduce him enough or something (I could go on and on) and has a weird sexual aggression or problem that I can’t figure out.’
Porter, 40, has been described as one of the most important players in Trump’s daily Oval Office orbit, and helped him write last week’s State of the Union Address
Tongues first started wagging about the couple when they were seen at a Washington, D.C. area church service on January 7
The woman also speaks about her desire to speak up to FBI about the abuse but said: ‘I am just scared and feel tremendous stress over this’.
‘Rob was abusive, degrading, a liar and a cheater and during the course of my relationship with him, I found out that he was to others, too,’ the woman wrote to Willoughby in February 2016.
‘I am just searching for someone who might be able to relate to the hell I have gone through.’
On Wednesday, it was alleged that Hicks was involved in crafting the response to DailyMail.com from the White House for Porter following Willoughby’s on-the-record allegations of domestic abuse.