ELAINE CHAO, BETSY DEVOS QUIT POSTS IN TRUMP’S CABINET

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao became the first cabinet official to join a number of Trump administration officials in resigning their jobs after a mob of the president’s loyal supporters stormed the Capitol, disrupting Congress as it was certifying the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos also quit on Thursday (Friday, January 8, 2021, in Manila) after criticizing the attackers who were goaded into besieging the Capitol by Trump himself.

His son and namesake Donald Jr. and Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who is trying to wriggle out of the rabbit hole he had dug for himself, the New York Times reported.

Ms. Chao, who is married to Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, announced her resignation on Thursday in a letter posted on Twitter.

She said that she would step down from her position on Jan. 11 and that her office would cooperate with President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s nominee for transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg.

“Yesterday, our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of the president stormed the Capitol building following a rally he addressed,” Ms. Chao wrote. “As I’m sure is the case with many of you, it has deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside.”

Aside from Chao and DeVos, the other Trump officials who quit are: Mick Mulvaney, a special envoy to Northern Ireland who was also President Trump’s former acting chief of staff; Matthew Pottinger, Mr. Trump’s deputy national security adviser since 2019; Tyler Goodspeed, the acting chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Stephanie Grisham, the former White House press secretary who served as chief of staff to Melania Trump; Rickie Niceta, Ms. Trump’s social secretary, and; Sarah Matthews, a deputy White House press secretary.

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