In a convenient twilight move in the aftermath of Trump’s day of fiasco, lowest point being the storming of the US congressional buildings on Capitol Hill, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, whose husband is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will resign from Trump’s lame duck cabinet as of Jan. 11.
The Secretary, in a statement, addressed to her colleagues in the Department of Transportation lamented the “traumatic and entirely avoidable event” of a pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol.
“It has deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside,” Chao said.
Chao, who is married to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, pledged to help her successor, Pete Buttigieg, transition to the role of transportation secretary (pending confirmation).
Chao also became the first cabinet secretary to resign following Wednesday’s events.
