Jennie Willoughby, ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post Thursday in which she criticizes the Wall Street Journal for publishing her ex-husband’s op-ed on trade, pointing out that he’s never apologized for the multiple accusations of domestic abuse that lost him his job.
“Rob’s sudden return to the public eye is deeply troubling to me, because he has yet to candidly address the thing that should — that must — come first: his personal conduct during his two marriages,” she writes. “Rob has yet to publicly show regret or contrition for his actions. Giving him a voice before he has done that critical work elevates his opinions above my and Colbie’s dignity,” she added, referring to Porter’s first wife who also accused him of domestic abuse.
“We all crave a redemption story,” she concludes. “We want to see people take ownership of their inadequacies and sins because we want to believe we, too, can be redeemed for our own. But true redemption is not a given. It is earned.”
Porter resigned from the White House last February, though he denied the allegations throughout.
The Party of Family Values…
I don’t know what to say. Clearly POTUS doesn’t care that he smacked around a couple of women and if HE doesn’t care it seems unlikely that the WSJ cares. This MAGA that the Deplorables keep touting is really just a return to a time when the white man reigned and women and people of color waited on them.
Ex’s in general should stay out of each other’s business.
But wife beating is okay because Rob Porter was a good christian conservative banging Hope Hicks, a christian conservative beauty queen whose hands were regularly on or near conservative hallowed ground when she was steaming Preshitident Skanky-Manslut’s pants to make him more manly.
Gee, the next thing you know WSJ will be giving op-ed space to pu**y-grabbing draft dodging racists with bone spurs!