3/14/2019

RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “The top communications official at the Department of Veterans Affairs, John Ullyot, announced his resignation Thursday, according to an internal email obtained by CNN and a statement from Secretary Robert Wilkie. Ullyot will officially leave his post as the assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs in early April and will be ‘announcing an exciting new position shortly,’ according to the email. A White House appointee, Ullyot was widely considered to be a staunch loyalist of President Donald Trump during his two years at the VA and praised the President’s leadership in an note to colleagues announcing his decision to leave the department…Ullyot came under fire in December after emails surfaced showing he discouraged the department’s former chief diversity officer from posting a more forceful condemnation of white supremacists and neo-Nazis who participated in the deadly August 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.”

Zachary Cohen, “Embattled Trump appointee resigns from Department of Veterans Affairs,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 14, 2019 7:34 pm