porter, rob

=How long does it take to become respectable again after you’re forced out of your job after a history of domestic violence comes to light? If you’re a square-jawed white Republican, and the measure of respectability is an op-ed in a major newspaper, the answer is apparently <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/15/rob-porter-wall-street-journal-1222551" target="blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">about 13 months</a>. That’s the mark set by former White House staff secretary Rob Porter and the Wall Street Journal on Thursday night.Porter’s op-ed is about Donald Trump’s trade agenda, but the substance of what he wrote is much less noteworthy than the fact that he had the opportunity at all. This is a man whose two ex-wives came forward to <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/13/1740948/-Colbie-Holderness-pushes-back-Recognizing-and-surviving-in-an-abusive-relationship-take-strength?" target="blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">describe his abuse</a>. His security clearance was held up as a result—and White House security clearance issues are still playing out, more than a year later—and then-chief of staff John Kelly’s reputation took a major hit due to his <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/9/1740028/-Epic-botching-of-White-House-wife-beater-case-forces-Kelly-to-clarify-that-domestic-violence-is-bad?" target="blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">botched handling</a> of the issue.Rob Porter is a violent man who epitomizes more than one White House scandal, but he’s also an Ivy League-educated Rhodes Scholar Republican, so 13 months is all it took for the uber-establishment Wall Street Journal to welcome his sage thoughts on trade. It’s a perfect symbol of the Republican way of the world.
==Back in 2017, the recently resigned EPA Associate Administrator <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5582299/Female-aide-embattled-Scott-Pruitt-helped-bring-Rob-Porter-resigns.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Samantha Dravis was White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter’s longtime girlfriend</a>, and they share an apartment.Dravis spots Porter out cheating with Hope HIcks and kicks him out of their apartment.Dravis knows Porter had physically abused his ex-wives and it seems that <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5365169/Woman-living-Hope-Hicks-lover-Rob-Porter-abused.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Porter may have also abused Dravis</a>.<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5582299/Female-aide-embattled-Scott-Pruitt-helped-bring-Rob-Porter-resigns.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Dravis takes revenge on Porter</a> by telling White House Council Don McGahn about Porter’s history of domestic violence.Corey Lewandowski, who used to date Hope Hicks and has never gotten over her, <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/was-corey-lewandowski-jealous-over-rob-porter-hope-hicks-alleged-relationship/" target="blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">gets wind of Porter’s issues and throws shade</a> at him too.Porter loses his job.Hicks dumps Porter.Hicks, shattered, quits her White House Communications Director job.Porter knows what a shit show is going on at the EPA where Dravis works as a close aide to administrator Scott Pruitt. Dravis is really cozy with Pruitt, she goes on free first class trips with him, gets paid a huge salary and never has to show up to work. So, Porter takes <a href="https://insideepa.com/daily-news/fired-white-house-aide-reportedly-source-leaks-over-pruitts-ethics?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">his revenge on Dravis, by telling the media about what’s going on at the EPA</a><a href="https://insideepa.com/daily-news/fired-white-house-aide-reportedly-source-leaks-over-pruitts-ethics?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">.</a>Dravis has to quit her sweet gig and Pruitt gets in all sorts of trouble as it turns out he is also into a whole lot of other shady business.Maybe Pruitt will lose his job too?Really, you just can not make this stuff up!