White House Staffer Resigns Following Controversial Online Activity
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White House staffer Marko Elez resigns after a racist online account attributed to him prompted media inquiries, confirmed by press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed to the Journal that the staffer in question, 25-year-old Marko Elez, departed his role after the outlet inquired about an alarming X account possibly belonging to him. The account, which was deleted in December, once carried the handle @marko_elez and had posted multiple racist comments, including:
- Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.
- You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.
- Normalize Indian hate.
