The Donald Trump campaign’s Georgia state director, Brandon Phillips, resigned on Tuesday after a local news station uncovered past criminal charges.
“Today we accepted the resignation of the Trump-Pence campaign’s Georgia State Director Brandon Phillips. Billy Kirkland, our Georgia Senior Advisor, will continue to lead the campaign’s operations in Georgia,” Trump spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement to Atlanta television station WBTV.
Phillips was arrested by Bibb County, Georgia, sheriff’s deputies in 2008 for battery and criminal damage, according to court documents reviewed by WBTV. He then pled guilty to criminal trespassing and battery, WBTV reported. He was sentenced to 36 months of probation and was ordered to pay a $1,500 fine, and he was released from probation one year later, according to WBTV.
Phillips was also arrested later that year for an alleged altercation involving a gun, but the charges were dropped after he completed a pretrial diversion program, per WBTV.
