she could use to escape the marriage. sorenson allegedly ran a car over his ex-wife's foot, put out a cigarette on her hand, threw her into a wall and grasped her menacingly by the hair while alone on a boat in remote waters off of maine's coast in an incident that left her fearing for her life and the post says she provided the post a photo of her hand bearing a scar from what she said was the cigarette burn inflicted by him. in addition to the photograph evidence, she provided records of text messages and emails when sorenson paraded her with vulgar language. he's denying the allegations and says he was the victim in their relationship. before coming to the white house, mr. sorenson worked for maine governor paul lepage. one of his jobs was overseeing domestic violence policy. sorenson said he stepped down not because the allegations were true but he didn't want the white house to have to deal with