BREAKING: Energy Sec. Rick Perry informed Pres. Trump that he plans to resign, two senior administration officials confirm to ABC News.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry, described by colleagues as one of the"three amigos" on U.S. policy on Ukraine, informed President Donald Trump on Thursday that he plans to resign, according to two senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the matter.
In recent weeks, Perry has repeatedly knocked down suggestions that he planned to resign, including telling the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Wednesday that he planned to still be in the job on Thanksgiving. According to Perry, he wanted Trump to call Ukraine's new president to forge a positive new relationship between the two countries. But Trump referred him to his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who told Perry that Ukraine manufactured evidence used to launch the U.S. special investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Manafort was sent to jail for tax and bank fraud on charges unrelated to the Trump campaign and tied to his political consulting work in Ukraine. Biden and his son, Hunter, have both said they did nothing wrong. In an interview with ABC News, Hunter acknowledged it was"poor judgement" to serve on an overseas board while his father as working as vice president but that there was no wrongdoing.
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