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Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says that the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was the final straw for her in standing by former President Trump, confirming that she was open to using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
DeVos, who writes in a new book about turning in her resignation letter to Trump the day after the Capitol insurrection, blames the former presidents refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election for blocking her efforts to pass her last piece of school choice agenda legislation through Congress.
She was the second Trump Cabinet member to step down on Jan. 7, following Education Secretary Elaine Chao.
To me, there was a line in the sand, DeVos writes in Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child, which comes out June 21. It wasnt about the election results. It was about the values and image of the United States. It was about public service rising above self. The president had lost sight of that.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/devos-says-she-talked-25th-amendment-resigned-after-trump-crossed-line-in-the-sand-on-jan-6/ar-AAYgL1v
Another Trumper who speaks out after the fact.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)dflprincess
(28,078 posts)Not buying it or your book.
chowder66
(9,069 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)peacefreak2.0
(1,023 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)Lock her up. Oh, and confiscate the estates.
agingdem
(7,849 posts)destroy the Department of Education, tolerated separating families, babies in cages, the muslim ban, good people on both sides, withhold aid to Ukraine, ignored the coming of a pandemic, "disappeared" 400,000 covid dead, suggested shooting peaceful protestors, legitimized racism/antisemitism/xenophobia ..all that was okay with Betsy but January 6 was a bridge too far?? Betsy, take your garbage book and shove it!
malaise
(268,998 posts)Dat is all
Novara
(5,842 posts)She ruined public schooling in Michigan and tried her damnedest to do the same nationwide.
To her, "education freedom" means defunding public schools and sending tax money to religious indoctrination schools for white kids. The result is that the poor and brown kids are "stuck" in shitty, poor-performing schools with bottom-of-the-barrel education. These kids don't go to college, furthering the divide between poor uneducated kids of color versus white educated kids who have opportunities. When poor kids don't have opportunities, they're the ones who work in factories, service industries, and low-paying jobs, and their kids are stuck in shitty public schools, and the cycle continues, keeping the class divide.
I hate that woman with the heat of a thousand suns.
callous taoboy
(4,585 posts)pecosbob
(7,538 posts)tanyev
(42,558 posts)computer servers communicating with each other, Betsy?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Not gonna happen.