Trump appears to issue new defense of aide accused of domestic abuse. Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to offer another protection of a previous White House aide who was compelled to leave after two exes accused him of household abuse.
In a statement on Twitter, Trump said: "Individuals' lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are valid and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recuperation for somebody falsely accused - life and career are no more. Is there no such thing any more drawn out as Due Process?"
Watchman, a key White House aide, left the administration on Wednesday after two exes accused him of physical abuse. The allegations, first detailed by the Daily Mail, incorporated a photograph of Porter's first spouse with a black eye that she said her ex had given her.
The White House has faced feedback over its reaction to the allegations against Porter, including an initial guard of the White House aide as a "man of trustworthiness" from the head of staff, John Kelly. There have also been questions raised about when top White House staffers learned of the allegations which had blocked Porter from accepting a permanent trusted status.
Watchman has expelled the allegations against him as "outrageous" and "just false".
Trump beforehand shielded Porter to journalists on Friday, saying: "We wish him well, he worked hard. We got some answers concerning it as of late and I was shocked by it, however we certainly wish him well and it's an extreme time for him.
"He completed a great job when he was in the White House. And we trust he has a superb career and he will have a great career ahead of him. In any case, it was extremely sad when we heard about it and certainly he's also exceptionally sad at this point."
He at that point added a resistance of Porter: "He also, as you probably know, says he's pure and I think you have to recollect that. He said emphatically yesterday that he's guiltless so you have to talk to him about that, however we absolutely wish him well, he completed a great job when he was at the White House."
A moment White House aide, speech specialist David Sorensen, was on Friday compelled to leave amid similar accusations, which he denied. The Porter contention has escalated weight on White House head of staff John Kelly finished his solid initial barrier of the official.
Trump has been protesting about Kelly's performance and weighing up conceivable replacements, according to media reports. The New York Times proposed that Kelly told staff on Friday he was ready to leave over his mishandling of the abusive behavior at home allegations that prompted Porter's resignation, and that simultaneously Trump was presently considering Mick Mulvaney, at present White House spending chief and head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as a conceivable successor.
Trump has for quite some time been skeptical of trusting allegations by ladies claiming abuse by men. He embraced the Alabama Republican Roy Moore for Senate in 2017 regardless of tenable statements that the Republican cheerful sexually assaulted underage young ladies, taking note of that Moore "denies it".
Trump also has pushed back on at least 19 allegations of sexual offense against him by saying that the accusers are all liars. The White House representative Sarah Sanders affirmed this was the official position of the administration in October 2017. Notwithstanding, Trump has been more comfortable making allegations about others. He drove the charge against the Central Park Five, five African American young people wrongly indicted rape, running advertisements inferring they ought to be executed.
He has still maintained regardless of DNA prove that the five are blameworthy.
He also drove cheers amid his presidential campaign of "bolt her up" that demanded his rival Hillary Clinton ought to be detained and long falsely claimed that Barack Obama was not conceived in the United States.
