But the violent siege on Capitol Hill offers a new, and perhaps final, moment of reckoning for the GOP. Deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger, White House social secretary Rickie Niceta and deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews also resigned, according to officials. Before they left, a handful of Republican senators and more than 100 Republican House members were set to oppose the vote to certify Biden's victory. Anthony Scaramucci, who served briefly as Trump’s White House communications director in 2017, often has harsh words for Trump. But he offered his harshest on Wednesday for Trump’s Republican enablers.