U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy Devos speaks during the daily briefing on the Chinese Communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia) in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 27, 2020.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos submitted her resignation on Jan. 7 after the violence at the Capitol on Wednesday (Jan. 6) and expressed her condemnation of the violence.
A joint session of the U.S. Congress was held on Wednesday to certify the results of the electoral votes submitted by the states. A large number of Trump supporters came to Washington from across the country to urge an end to the electoral theft. Trump asked the protesters to “make your voices heard peacefully and patriotically” and urged Vice President Mike Pence, who chaired the joint session, to send the electoral college results from the disputed states back to the state legislatures.
DeVos said her resignation is effective this Friday, Jan. 8. She becomes the second Cabinet official to resign in the wake of the violence at the Capitol.
DeVos said it has been the honor of her life to serve as secretary of education and that she will always be grateful for the opportunity to serve America and its students.
“We should highlight and celebrate the many accomplishments your administration has achieved on behalf of the American people,” she said in a letter to Trump. She also condemned the violent attack on the Capitol as “unacceptable for our country.
DeVos took to Twitter earlier to urge that the violence must stop. She said the law must be upheld and the work of the people must continue. America’s children and students are watching Wednesday’s events in Washington, D.C. “We must set a better example for them, and we must teach them the solemn obligations and responsibilities befitting the title ‘America’.”
Tony Good, who retired from the Marines, came from Florida for Wednesday’s rally and walked to the Ellipse of the White House that morning to hear President Trump’s speech. He said Trump did not incite violence in his speech.
“No, absolutely not. There’s a difference between inciting riots and standing on convictions.” Goode said, “He didn’t tell anyone to riot, he just told people that it’s our right to protest, it’s a right that America has given us.”
On Thursday (Jan. 7), President Trump tweeted a video message. Trump began by condemning the violence at the Capitol, stressing that America must always be a nation of laws. He also said he must “reinvigorate the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that make us one family of nations.”
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