The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Source: Fox News
Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:32 PM
President Trump Asks Where Is "Due Process" After Allegations Lead To Resignation Of Two White House Staffers
“Peoples [sic] lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new,” he tweeted. “There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?”
t was not immediately
clear the accusations to which Trump was referring, but it came on the
heels of the resignations of two White House aides, staff secretary Rob
Porter and speechwriter David Sorensen, over domestic abuse allegations
against them.
Porter resigned Wednesday after being accused of abusing two ex-wives.
Sorensen resigned Friday over allegations he had been violently and
emotionally abusive to his ex-wife during their marriage. Both men deny
the allegations against them.
The White House initially offered a staunch defense of Porter when the
allegations emerged against him on Tuesday night. But within 24 hours,
as images emerged of one of Porter’s ex-wives with a black eye and
questions were raised about what Chief of Staff John Kelly knew about
the allegations and when, Porter resigned.
Kelly sent an email to White House staff on Thursday making clear that
the White House had a clear stance on domestic abuse.