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The Washington Post reports:
A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trump’s recent handling of racial tensions across the country — saying that the president’s actions “cut sharply against my core values and convictions.”
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her resignation on Thursday.
Taylor’s five-paragraph resignation letter, obtained by The Washington Post, serves as an indictment of Trump’s stewardship at a time of national unrest from one of the administration’s highest ranking African Americans and an aide who was viewed as both loyal and effective in serving his presidency.
Top State Dept legislative affairs official resigns, citing Trump’s failures on race: “The President’s comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions,” Mary Elizabeth Taylor, Ass. Sec. for LegAffairs wrote https://t.co/Nsp5j3cf7E
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) June 18, 2020
in resignation letter to Pompeo.
“Taylor, 30, was unanimously confirmed to her position in October 2018 and is the youngest assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in history and the first black woman to serve in that post.”https://t.co/GvMbq8lsXF
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) June 18, 2020