New York magazine’s Margaret Hartmann delves deeper into a growing ethics scandal involving President Trump’s Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine Chao and her shipping mogul father, James Chao, whose business relies heavily on partnerships with China’s communist regime.
Hartmann draws from a report in Politico that Chao, who is the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), appeared in joint interviews with her father in numerous “Chinese and Chinese-American media outlets since her nomination,” including at least one that appears to have been conducted at the DOT and prominently features the DOT flag in the background.
Hartmann writes:
Federal employees are prohibited from using their office for their “own private gain, for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise, or for the private gain of friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity.” But Chao makes no apparent effort to show she’s promoting her family’s business only as a daughter, not as U.S. Transportation secretary, and in fact, it appears several of the videos were filmed in her government office. DOT flags are shown in several of the spots, like the New China Press interview below, and one video features the state flag of Kentucky, highlighting her tie to the majority leader.
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What did you expect from Mitch RINO McConnell's wife??
ReplyDeleteiirc, that's the wife of Mitch McConnell.
ReplyDeleteDoes this bring to mind Waters, Kerry, Pelosi and other Democrats? They all are crooks. There is another reason for term limits with no retirement or benefits plus take away all those long holidays and long weekends plus have to work until the job is done instead of putting it off.
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