{"id":347326,"date":"2018-02-08T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-aide-leaves-white-house-after-abuse-allegations\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:35:35","slug":"presstv-trump-aide-leaves-white-house-after-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-aide-leaves-white-house-after-abuse-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump aide leaves White House after abuse allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>One of President Donald Trump&#8217;s top White House aides resigned Wednesday following allegations of domestic abuse leveled against him by his two ex-wives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Staff secretary Rob Porter said in a written statement that allegations that became public this week are &#8220;outrageous&#8221; and &#8220;simply false.&#8221; Porter said photos published of his former spouses \u2014 in which one appears to have a black eye \u2014 were &#8220;given to the media nearly 15 years ago and the reality behind them is nowhere close to what is being described.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Porter added in a written statement. &#8220;I have been transparent and truthful about these vile claims, but I will not further engage publicly with a coordinated smear campaign.&#8221; Porter said he will leave the White House after a transition period.<\/p>\n<p>Porter&#8217;s former wives recounted physical, verbal and emotional abuse they say he subjected them to during their marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Porter&#8217;s first wife, Colbie Holderness, told the DailyMail.com that Porter&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/08\/551674\/Trump-aide-to-leave-White-House-after-abuse-allegations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of President Donald Trump&#8217;s top White House aides resigned Wednesday following allegations of domestic abuse leveled against him by his two ex-wives. Staff secretary Rob Porter said in a written statement that allegations that became public this week are &#8220;outrageous&#8221; and &#8220;simply false.&#8221; Porter said photos published of his former spouses \u2014 in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}