06-17-2019, 04:52 PM
This explains why the crooked turtle never says a bad word about Trump. He and his wife are thieves just like Trump.
Chao must go
AN EDITORIAL FROM NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are in bed with
each other, and not just as husband and wife.
New revelations of official coziness are a huge problem for Ms. Chao, whose leadership of the infrastructurebuilding agency was already on a shaky foundation.
Unless she can explain a slew of suspect decisions, and do it quick, she must step down.
On Monday, Politico reported that Ms. Chao designated a dedicated liaison to help Kentucky and only
Kentucky — the state represented by her powerful spouse — with infrastructure grants.
Not California, with more people and needs than anyplace else. Not New York, the economic capital, with
aging tunnels and bridges. Just the Bluegrass State.
So just as Mr. McConnell was gearing up for re-election, Kentucky won nearly $80 million in approved
grants, including a highway-improvement project that had been rejected twice.
Convenient.
This obscene use of political power puts in sharp focus other curious episodes during Ms. Chao’s tenure.
The New York Times reported that in a 2017 proposed trip to China, Ms. Chao — whose family runs an
American shipping company with extensive business in China — attempted to have Beijing Embassy staff
coordinate travel for at least one family member and have other relatives sit in on meetings with Chinese
government officials.
Last month, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Ms. Chao made $40,000 profiting from sale of stock in the
country’s largest construction-materials supplier, stock she had promised to divest from a year ago.
At this point, we’re too exhausted to muster much surprise at the discovery of this type of behavior in the
Trump Cabinet.
But we’re not tired enough to take it lying down.
Chao must go
AN EDITORIAL FROM NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are in bed with
each other, and not just as husband and wife.
New revelations of official coziness are a huge problem for Ms. Chao, whose leadership of the infrastructurebuilding agency was already on a shaky foundation.
Unless she can explain a slew of suspect decisions, and do it quick, she must step down.
On Monday, Politico reported that Ms. Chao designated a dedicated liaison to help Kentucky and only
Kentucky — the state represented by her powerful spouse — with infrastructure grants.
Not California, with more people and needs than anyplace else. Not New York, the economic capital, with
aging tunnels and bridges. Just the Bluegrass State.
So just as Mr. McConnell was gearing up for re-election, Kentucky won nearly $80 million in approved
grants, including a highway-improvement project that had been rejected twice.
Convenient.
This obscene use of political power puts in sharp focus other curious episodes during Ms. Chao’s tenure.
The New York Times reported that in a 2017 proposed trip to China, Ms. Chao — whose family runs an
American shipping company with extensive business in China — attempted to have Beijing Embassy staff
coordinate travel for at least one family member and have other relatives sit in on meetings with Chinese
government officials.
Last month, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Ms. Chao made $40,000 profiting from sale of stock in the
country’s largest construction-materials supplier, stock she had promised to divest from a year ago.
At this point, we’re too exhausted to muster much surprise at the discovery of this type of behavior in the
Trump Cabinet.
But we’re not tired enough to take it lying down.