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Is the dam breaking?
Top State Department official resigns in protest of Trumps response to racial tensions in the country
A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trumps recent handling of racial tensions across the country saying that the presidents actions cut sharply against my core values and convictions.
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her resignation on Thursday. Taylors five-paragraph resignation letter, obtained by The Washington Post, serves as an indictment of Trumps stewardship at a time of national unrest from one of the administrations highest ranking African Americans and an aide who was viewed as both loyal and effective in serving his presidency.
Moments of upheaval can change you, shift the trajectory of your life, and mold your character. The Presidents comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions, Taylor wrote in her resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. I must follow the dictates of my conscience and resign as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs.
Taylor, 30, was unanimously confirmed to her position in October 2018 and is the youngest assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in history and the first black woman to serve in that post.
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Taylor was viewed as a loyal member of the administration and is a lifelong member of the Republican Party. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-state-department-official-resigns-in-protest-of-trumps-response-to-racial-tensions-in-the-country/2020/06/18/e142e342-b181-11ea-a567-6172530208bd_story.html
A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trumps recent handling of racial tensions across the country saying that the presidents actions cut sharply against my core values and convictions.
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her resignation on Thursday. Taylors five-paragraph resignation letter, obtained by The Washington Post, serves as an indictment of Trumps stewardship at a time of national unrest from one of the administrations highest ranking African Americans and an aide who was viewed as both loyal and effective in serving his presidency.
Moments of upheaval can change you, shift the trajectory of your life, and mold your character. The Presidents comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions, Taylor wrote in her resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. I must follow the dictates of my conscience and resign as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs.
Taylor, 30, was unanimously confirmed to her position in October 2018 and is the youngest assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in history and the first black woman to serve in that post.
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Taylor was viewed as a loyal member of the administration and is a lifelong member of the Republican Party. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-state-department-official-resigns-in-protest-of-trumps-response-to-racial-tensions-in-the-country/2020/06/18/e142e342-b181-11ea-a567-6172530208bd_story.html
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Black senior State Dept official resigns because of Trump's comments and actions on race (Original Post)
StarfishSaver
Jun 2020
OP
Top State Dept legislative affairs official resigns, citing Trump's failures on race:
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2020
#4
mwooldri
(10,301 posts)1. What took her so long?
His racism has been on display for years.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)2. IKR?
But better late than never ...
Arthur_Frain
(1,840 posts)3. "Like rats from a sinking ship"
Is a better cliche than the dam one.
That is to say, I think it more likely whats going on here.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,315 posts)4. Top State Dept legislative affairs official resigns, citing Trump's failures on race:
Top State Dept legislative affairs official resigns, citing Trumps failures on race: The Presidents comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions, Mary Elizabeth Taylor, Ass. Sec. for LegAffairs wrote
Link to tweet
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)5. This is the same person I referenced in the OP
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,315 posts)6. Right. I'm adding a link.
Just another day in this administration.
Thanks.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)7. Gotcha
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,757 posts)8. Kick
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)9. Sooooo, Trumps policy of taking asylum seeking kids from their parents didn't do it & his history of
... racism didn't do it but this did?
WTF?