White Home aide resigns after threatening reporter

Washington: White Home deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo has resigned, the day after he was suspended for issuing a sexist and profane menace to a journalist in search of to cowl his relationship with one other reporter.

Ducklo had been placed on a weeklong suspension with out pay on Friday after a report surfaced in Self-importance Honest outlining his sexist threats in opposition to a feminine Politico journalist to attempt to suppress a narrative about his relationship, telling her “I’ll destroy you.” The journalist had been in search of to report on his relationship with a political reporter at Axios who had beforehand coated the Biden marketing campaign and transition.

In a press release on Sunday, AEDT, Ducklo mentioned he was “devastated to have embarrassed and disillusioned my White Home colleagues and President Biden”.

“No phrases can specific my remorse, my embarrassment and my disgust for my habits,” he mentioned. I used language that no girl ought to ever have to listen to from anybody, particularly in a state of affairs the place she was simply attempting to do her job. It was language that was abhorrent, disrespectful and unacceptable.”