GOP Aide In Kavanaugh Confirmation Resigns As Sexual Harassment Claim Surfaces

Garrett Ventry, a communications adviser to the Senate Judiciary Committee, has abruptly resigned after NBC News inquired about a past sexual harassment allegation against him.

He had been assisting the committee, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), after a woman came forward to accuse President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in the 1980s.

According to NBC News, a female Republican staffer working for the North Carolina General Assembly said Ventry sexually harassed her in 2017 when Ventry was working for North Carolina House Majority Leader John Bell. Sources told the outlet that he was dismissed over that incident and because parts of his resume were found to be embellished.

Ventry denies the harassment accusation. He submitted his resignation Friday night, he told The Washington Post.

Taylor Foy, a Senate Judiciary Committee spokeswoman, said in a statement that Ventry simply resigned “to avoid causing any distraction from the work of the committee.”

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