The executive director for Donald Trump’s Georgia campaign resigned on Tuesday.
“Today we accepted the resignation of the Trump-Pence campaign’s Georgia State Director Brandon Phillips. Billy Kirkland, our Georgia senior adviser, will continue to lead the campaign’s operations in Georgia,” Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser, said in a statement to Atlanta-based WSB-TV.
Phillips was arrested by Bibb County officials in 2008 on battery and felony criminal damage charges. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charges of criminal trespassing and battery.
According to the indictment, Phillips “[d]id then and there intentionally damage the property of Whitney Harden” and “[d]id then and there cause visible bodily harm to wit: cuts and bruises to the head and torso of Nicholas Dugger.”
He was sentenced under first offender status to 36 months probation and paid more than $1,500 in restitution. A year later, he was granted early release from probation. Later that year, Phillips was arrested in Atlanta after an altercation with a neighbor, which involved a gun. He was charged with simple assault and battery, but the charges were dropped after he completed a pretrial diversion program.
