WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump‘s former chief of staff and current special envoy to Northern Ireland said Thursday that he’s resigning from his diplomatic post.
“I called [Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo last night to let him know I was resigning from that. I can’t do it. I can’t stay,” Mick Mulvaney told CNBC in an exclusive interview.
“Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they’re worried the president might put someone worse in,” Mulvaney added.
Trump, during a Wednesday rally outside the White House, encouraged thousands of supporters to march to the Capitol to protest what historically have been ceremonial proceedings. Trump returned to the White House after his speech and later told supporters in a tweeted video “you have to go home now” but he didn’t condemn the violence.
On Wednesday members of Trump’s Cabinet issued harsh rebukes of the mayhem at the U.S. Capitol, which forced Congress to halt the process to declare Joe Biden‘s victory in the presidential election. The officials, however, stopped short of criticizing the president, who had urged his supporters to take action.
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