DeVos resigns after pro-Trump riot: ‘There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation’
Read full article: DeVos resigns after pro-Trump riot: ‘There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation’FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. In a resignation letter Thursday, DeVos blamed President Donald Trump for inflaming tensions in the violent assault on the seat of the nation’s democracy. She says, “There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.”Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao tendered her resignation earlier Thursday. News of DeVos’ resignation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Related: Trump’s Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigns after Capitol riot