Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who won last fall's gubernatorial election by creating plausible distance between himself and Donald Trump, has seen that distance shrink a bit more. A top deputy to the state's attorney general, Monique Miles — who represented Virginia in election-related legal matters — has been forced to resign after the Washington Post found social media posts in which she repeatedly praised the Capitol insurrection and embraced Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud.
Monique Miles, who until Thursday was deputy attorney general of government transactions and operations, apparently spread baseless claims about voter fraud and election interference over the course of several months on Facebook. Her office was unaware of this until Post reporters inquired, according to Victoria LaCivita, a spokeswoman for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares.
