Ex-wife: Porter informed in September security clearance was 'delayed' due to 'violent' past
Source: CNN
By MJ Lee and Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 1:54 PM ET, Thu February 15, 2018
Washington (CNN)Disgraced former White House aide Rob Porter told one of his ex-wives in September that he was informed that his security clearance check was "delayed" in part because of concerns that he was "violent."
The revelation, shared with CNN on Wednesday by Porter's ex-wife Jennie Willoughby, raises fresh questions about who at the White House knew what -- and when -- regarding the domestic abuse allegations leveled against Porter by his two ex-wives, Willoughby and Colbie Holderness. Both women have said they were interviewed by the FBI in January 2017 as a part of Porter's background check.
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Willoughby recalled that Porter, who resigned as President Donald Trump's staff secretary last week, called her in September to express concern that his clearance check was "delayed."
"When I asked him how he knew that, he told me that people who were involved in the background check let him know it was being delayed -- and that one of the concerns was that he was 'violent,'" Willoughby said. "So, he was asking me if I had used that word with the FBI and if Colbie had used that word."
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