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- Jennie Willoughby, the ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, criticized President Trump and others for their continued support of Porter following abuse allegations.
- “If the most powerful people in the nation do not believe my story of abuse in the face of overwhelming evidence, then what hope do others have of being heard?” Willoughby wrote in a column for Time.
- President Trump has emphasized Porter’s claims of his innocence and said false accusations can “shatter” people’s lives.
Jennie Willoughby, the ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, slammed President Donald Trump for continuing to support his former aide in the face of what she calls “overwhelming evidence” of his domestic abuse.
In a column published in Time magazine on Sunday, Willoughby said she was “floored” by Trump’s defense of Porter, less than a week after Willoughby and Colbie Holderness, another of ex-wife of Porter’s, both accused him of abusing them when they were married.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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