DeVos says she talked 25th Amendment, resigned after Trump crossed ‘line in the sand’ on Jan. 6
by Natalie Prieb - 06/09/22 11:24 AM ET
Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says that the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was the final straw for her in standing by former President Trump, confirming that she was open to using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
DeVos, who writes in a new book about turning in her resignation letter to Trump the day after the Capitol insurrection, blames the former president’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election for blocking her efforts to pass her last piece of school choice agenda legislation through Congress.
She was the second Trump Cabinet member to step down on Jan. 7, following Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
“To me, there was a line in the sand,” DeVos writes in “Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child,” which comes out June 21. “It wasn’t about the election results. It was about the values and image of the United States. It was about public service rising above self. The president had lost sight of that.”
DeVos’s book marks the first time she has publicly spoken out about her decision to resign in the waning days of the Trump administration.
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