{"id":3183,"date":"2021-01-08T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T06:28:23","slug":"u-s-transport-education-secretaries-quit-after-capitol-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/u-s-transport-education-secretaries-quit-after-capitol-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. transport, education secretaries quit after Capitol violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned on Thursday, joining a list of officials quitting President Donald Trump\u2019s administration in protest at the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, <strong>Q\u0130A.AZ<\/strong> reports citing\u00a0Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chao, the wife of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, said in an email to staff that the mob attack \u201chas deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside.\u201d She said her resignation will take effect on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to Trump, DeVos said the attack on the Capitol was unconscionable. \u201cThere is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,\u201d she wrote, adding her resignation would be effective Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on DeVos\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With less than two weeks left of Trump\u2019s presidency, many aides were already heading for the door, but the sudden exodus suggested revulsion among some over his encouragement of supporters who brought chaos to the Capitol on Wednesday in an ultimately futile bid to prevent formal certification of Democrat Joe Biden\u2019s election victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger, a leading aide on Trump\u2019s China policy, quit abruptly on Wednesday, said a senior administration official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was followed by Ryan Tully, senior director for European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council, said a second senior official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republican Trump\u2019s pledge on Thursday of an \u201corderly transition\u201d on Jan. 20 was partly intended to head off further resignations, but the second official told Reuters: \u201cIt\u2019s not going to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The images at the Capitol filled television screens worldwide, forever marking Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned on Thursday, joining a list of officials quitting President Donald Trump\u2019s administration in protest at the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, Q\u0130A.AZ reports citing\u00a0Reuters. Chao, the wife of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, said in an email to staff that the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/u-s-transport-education-secretaries-quit-after-capitol-violence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. transport, education secretaries quit after Capitol violence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}