We've lost another one!
Rob Porter has flown under the radar a bit, but he has been an important member of the Trump White House team, most recently assisting Stephen Miller in writing the State of the Union speech.
This is him with some other people:
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This is one of his ex-wives. He was responsible for her appearance.
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He has been on a temporary security pass for the last year, as the FBI refused to give him proper clearance after both his ex-wives accused him of assault during clearance investigations. Despite that, he seems to have had full access to everything, accompanying Trump to Davos and to Peking, where he was one of the few to get to shake hands with the Chinese President.
Now the story is out, and so is he.
It's a bigger story than that, though, because John Kelly knew the situation but didn't tell Trump. Not only that, but he released a statement supporting Porter when the story was broken (by our own Daily Mail). Speculation is building that Kelly is again out of favour and his job is on the line. An extra bit of spice is that Porter has been seeing Hope Hicks for the last couple of months.
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