Sam Clovis, a former Trump campaign official who has become entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, has withdrawn his nomination for a top post in the Agriculture Department.
We respect Mr. Cloviss decision to withdraw his nomination," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
This is also after he admitted that he has literally no education or training in the sciences.
Clovis was picked by Trump to be Agriculture undersecretary for research, education and economics and his nomination was already in trouble in the Senate because of some of his past writings and statements and questions about whether he was qualified for a job meant to be filled by a scientist.
He drew further scrutiny after the release of court documents related to Papadopouloss guilty plea. His lawyer confirmed that Clovis was the unnamed campaign supervisor cited in the documents who received emails from Papadopoulos about attempts to arrange meetings between the campaign and Russian representatives.
Clovis, in a statement released earlier this week, said Papadopoulos was acting on his own and that the campaign had a strict rule against traveling abroad and claiming to speak on behalf of the campaign.
The political climate inside Washington has made it impossible for me to receive balanced and fair consideration for this position, Clovis said in a letter to Trump that was released by the White House. The relentless assaults on you and your team seem to be a blood sport that only increases in intensity each day.
Papadopoulos was one of five volunteer advisers on foreign policy identified by Trump in a March 2016 interview. Over the next several months, according to court documents, he cultivated at least three contacts who promised dirt on Clinton, Trumps election rival, and introductions to top-level Russians. He kept some people in the campaign, including Clovis, apprised of his efforts by email.
everyone is so dirty in this
from what I have been reading, in Greek media they are talking about this situation very differently. Especially about how Papadopoulos was not some low ranking nobody. ---