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a former Trump campaign official who has become entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, has withdrawn his nomination for a top post in the Agriculture Department.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. Clovis’s decision to withdraw his nomination,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
CNN reported Clovis’s nomination was in danger of being pulled after it was revealed he encouraged had George Papadopoulos to set up a meeting with Russian officials whil working on the Trump campaign.
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#BREAKING: Trump top science nominee withdraws after being linked to Mueller Russia probe https://t.co/iis1ERLXS0 pic.twitter.com/HklIA5gl83
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