Mike Pence: White House Could Have Handled Rob Porter Situation Better

Porter’s two former wives, Colbie Holderness and Jennifer Willoughby, have said they told FBI investigators details of their troubled marriages to the 40-year-old Porter in January 2017. He has said they are lying.

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, told reporters that he is “totally opposed to domestic violence of any kind”. “They are supposed to be given high priority for the obvious reason that you need to staff the president properly”, Moss said.

The answer has to do, I think, with a lack of integrity, an absence of a moral compass, a narcissism in which the all-consuming need becomes to protect oneself and one’s boss. Flynn left his job on February 13, 2017, after he admitted misleading Vice President Mike Pence. No one is infallible.

Oops. Take two. This week, Cohen confirmed the payment in a statement saying that he “facilitated” the transfer with his own cash. “That’s the only way you restore credibility”.

Of the full list, 85 of the political appointees were working White House, vice president’s office or on the National Security Council, NBC says.

“John Kelly’s service in uniform, his distinguished service at our Department of Homeland Security – where there was a dramatic reduction of illegal crossings on our southern border – and his distinguished service as our chief of staff gives me and the president great confidence in this good man”, Pence added.

Who is to blame for this bungled handling of domestic violence allegations against a senior official? McGahn, who knew Porter’s girlfriend, at that point suggested to Porter he should consider leaving the White House, the people said. “You can call it unofficial”, Gowdy told CNN. Cummings pointed to Democratic requests dating back to the weeks after the 2016 presidential election for more information about security clearances for senior Trump aides.

The White House claims that the backlog of interim security clearances is a procedural effect of the review process carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and White House Office of Security, which can take time to complete. “If proper vetting had been done, these issues would have been known”. Card defended the way John Kelly handled the dismissal of Rob Porter because Kelly needs to be focused on what is happening overseas and domestically with infrastructure, immigration and the budget.

If there are problems with the applicant, the personnel office alerts the White House counsel’s office, who would in turn communicate with the White House chief of staff. Wray said the FBI administratively closed its investigation file in January, but “received some additional information” it passed on to the White House earlier this month. But members of President Donald Trump’s team said top advisers in the West Wing were kept in the dark. “She probably just doesn’t know the full story”.

It was as if the White House had leaped back in time to the first months of 2017, when finger pointing, anonymous leaks and guessing games about whether key aides were on their way out were near routine.