A White House speechwriter has resigned over domestic abuse claims, the second such departure this week, amid a widening scandal that has called into question US President Donald Trump’s judgment.
David Sorensen resigned Friday after his ex-wife Jessica Corbett, told The Washington Post that Sorensen had physically and emotionally abused her during their two-and-a-half year marriage.
Corbett told the newspaper that Sorensen ran a car over her foot, extinguished a cigarette on her hand, threw her into a wall and grabbed her by her hair, but that she did not report the incidents due to her then-husband’s connections to law enforcement.
Sorensen has denied the allegations and claimed that he was abused by her.
“Before we were contacted by the media, we learned last night that there were allegations,” White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said in a statement Friday. “We immediately confronted the staffer, he denied the allegations…