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Inspector General’s Report Cites Elaine Chao for Using Office to Help Family

 

While serving as transportation secretary during the Trump administration, Elaine Chao repeatedly used her office staff to help family members who run a shipping business with extensive ties to China, a report released Wednesday by the Transportation Department’s inspector general concluded.

 

The inspector general referred the matter to the Justice Department in December for possible criminal investigation. But in the weeks before the end of Trump administration, two Justice Department divisions declined to do so.

 

Ms. Chao, the wife of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, announced her resignation on Jan. 7, the day after the Capitol riot. At the time of her departure, an aide to Ms. Chao said her resignation was unrelated to the inspector general’s investigation.

 

The investigation of Ms. Chao came after a 2019 report in The New York Times that detailed her interactions with her family while serving as transportation secretary, including a trip she had planned to take to China in 2017 with her father and sister. The inspector general’s report confirmed that the planning for the trip, which was canceled, raised ethics concerns among other government officials.

 

As transportation secretary, Ms. Chao was the top Trump administration official overseeing the American shipping industry, which is in steep decline and is being battered by Chinese competitors.

 

“A formal investigation into potential misuses of position was warranted,” Mitch Behm, the Transportation Department’s deputy inspector general, said to House lawmakers on Tuesday in a letter accompanying a 44-page report detailing the investigation into “use of public office for private gain.”

 

The investigators did not make a formal finding that Ms. Chao violated ethics rules. But they detailed more than a dozen instances where her office took steps to handle matters related to her father, who built up a New York-based shipping company after immigrating to the United States from Taiwan in the late 1950s, and to her sister, who runs the company now.

 

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Trump is headed for New York amid rift with Jared Kushner

 

Donald Trump is set to make his first trip to New York since leaving the White House amid an apparent rift with son-in-law Jared Kushner who the ex-president is said to be angry with over his election loss. 

 

News of his visit comes amid reports of escalating tensions between Trump and former White House Senior Adviser Jared in the days since they both left DC.

 

Contradictory reports are circling from people close to the two men over who is to blame for the apparent rift but they appeared to actively avoid bumping into each other at the Trump National Doral golf course in Miami Wednesday. 

 

Trump, 74, was spotted leaving the driving range to head to the 18-round course just minutes before Ivanka and Jared arrived to practice their swing, narrowly missing bumping into each other.

 

Jared, 40, was also absent from Trump's team ahead of his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference Sunday and the ex-president is telling his inner circle he blames Jared for his failed second run at office, reported CNN. 

 

However sources close to Jared say Kushner has 'checked out of politics' because he is 'done' with Trump's false rhetoric of widespread election fraud.  

 

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Trump is headed for New York amid rift with Jared Kushner

 

Donald Trump is set to make his first trip to New York since leaving the White House amid an apparent rift with son-in-law Jared Kushner who the ex-president is said to be angry with over his election loss. 

 

News of his visit comes amid reports of escalating tensions between Trump and former White House Senior Adviser Jared in the days since they both left DC.

 

Contradictory reports are circling from people close to the two men over who is to blame for the apparent rift but they appeared to actively avoid bumping into each other at the Trump National Doral golf course in Miami Wednesday. 

 

Trump, 74, was spotted leaving the driving range to head to the 18-round course just minutes before Ivanka and Jared arrived to practice their swing, narrowly missing bumping into each other.

 

Jared, 40, was also absent from Trump's team ahead of his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference Sunday and the ex-president is telling his inner circle he blames Jared for his failed second run at office, reported CNN. 

 

However sources close to Jared say Kushner has 'checked out of politics' because he is 'done' with Trump's false rhetoric of widespread election fraud.  

 

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I’m a little confused with why the former guy is big mad at Jared.  The former guy won the election bigly, but it was stolen from him by antifa, Soros, Mexicans, and Mitt Romney.  The most rigged election against the most persecuted President in history.  So why would he be mad at Jared? Weird.

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Former White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx joins Bush Institute and Dallas-based air purifier company

 

Dr. Deborah Birx, the former coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force under President Donald Trump, has been hired by Dallas-based ActivePure Technologies.

 

Dr. Birx will serve as chief medical and scientific advisor for the company, CEO Joseph Urso announced on Friday.

 

The move comes after Dr. Birx spent most of 2020 serving as the leader of the White House's response to the pandemic, seen almost daily with Dr. Anthony Fauci in coronavirus briefings. She came under fire from critics who felt Dr. Birx didn't do enough to correct former President Trump's misinformation about the virus and its treatments. 

 

 

The retired U.S. Army physician was appointed to the task force by former Vice-President Mike Pence and was one of two women on the team.

 

 

In her role with ActivePure Technologies, Dr. Birk will use her medical and scientific expertise to help the company's research and development of air purification technologies.

 

On its website, ActivePure Technologies touts that its products "eliminate over 99% of the virus that causes COVID-19 in the air and on surfaces."

 

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Re: Elaine Chao, people have been saying her mismanagement of funds has been corrupt for some time now, but has always had the cover of McConnell to deflect.   Just like the "but her emails" debacle, all the  nepotism being thrown towards Joe/Hunter Biden, while not exactly untrue, is also being practiced by the GOP as well.  Pot calling kettle black because of election campaign season convenience. 

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https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/01/21/jared-and-ivankas-kalorama-dc-house-is-now-for-rent/

 

Photos: Jared and Ivanka’s Kalorama DC House Is Now for Rent

 

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Well, that was fast. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump left DC only a day ago, and the mansion they called home for the past four years is already on the rental market, listed for $18,000 a month. The news was first reported by the Washington Business Journal.

 

 

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Very symbolic.  Like the Trump organization, falling into disrepair:

 

Trump's private Boeing 757 sitting idle in disrepair at New York airport: report

 

Former President Trump's personal Boeing 757 is sitting unused at an Orange County, New York airport, unable to be flown, CNN reports.

 

The full-size passenger airliner, which bears Trump's name across the side in large block letters, has fallen into disrepair. One engine is shrink-wrapped and the other is missing parts, according to the outlet.

 

Getting the plane, which was 20 years old when Trump purchased it in 2010, back into flying shape could reportedly cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Flight records obtained by CNN signal that Trump hasn't used the plane since leaving office in January.

 

Trump's Boeing 757 was a staple during his 2016 presidential campaign. Since becoming a private citizen, he's been flying on his smaller 1997 Cessna 750 Citation X corporate jet, according to CNN.

 

According to the Trump Organization, Trump's current jet can seat nine passengers comfortably.

 

"The small jet isn't his favorite," a former White House official told CNN. "It also doesn't have his name on the outside."

 

The source went on to explain that cost behind operating the large airliner, which the Trump Organization website dubs his "crown jewel," was a financial strain.

 

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If he can't afford to fix and maintain his aircraft then perhaps he's not as rich as he claims to be.  If he were really rich, he'd sell it and buy a new one.

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Trump aides seeking jobs 'blocked everywhere'

 

You can count on two hands the number of top aides to former President Donald Trump who have landed new jobs.

 

Former spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany is at Fox. Trump communicators Julia Hahn and Judd Deere joined newly elected Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty. The Heritage Foundation expanded its immigration team by giving fellowships to former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, his deputy Ken Cuccinelli, and former border boss Mark Morgan.

 

But for most others, resumes are gathering dust, book manuscripts are being rejected, and corporations are being threatened with boycotts if they hire members of Trump's team.

 

“They are being blocked everywhere,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union.

 

It’s “natural for the party that lost the White House, just as we saw after the Bush and Obama administrations, to spend a few months in the wilderness, so to speak,” added Brian Walsh, a partner at PLUS Communications.

 

But this time feels different, and many critics have said it is deserved.

 

“They took a wrecking ball to the 'swamp.' Why would the 'swamp' want them back?” a top K Street lobbyist asked.

 

Eric Dezenhall, an author and Washington communications adviser, said it is going to be hard for Trump staffers to land jobs quickly, especially with corporations, due to concerns that the White House played fast and loose with the truth.

 

“I had one client say to me that they're avoiding people from 'Trumpworld' because they are afraid that hiring from somebody from that world right out of the gate will provoke somebody into accusing them of lying,” Dezenhall said.

 

“The Trump crowd was able to traffic in dubious information, but they could do that as long as he was in power. When he loses that power, they're now victims of the same character assassination,” said Dezenhall, whose new book False Light tackles that issue.

 

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Eric Dezenhall, an author and Washington communications adviser, said it is going to be hard for Trump staffers to land jobs quickly, especially with corporations, due to concerns that the White House played fast and loose with the truth.

 

Not one of those "swamp" businesses gives a **** about telling the truth.  In fact, they're enemies of it.  

 

They don't want to hire any Trumpers, because they will lie badly  

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Trump aides build out the MAGA-verse with new groups

 

Brooke Rollins spent nearly three years in Donald Trump’s White House, part of it as the former president’s chief domestic policy adviser.

 

Now she’s trying on a new role: Helping to oversee a Trump-aligned nonprofit devoted to pushing the former president’s agenda while he’s out of office.

 

Rollins has moved aggressively since Trump left the White House, with her soon-to-be-launched organization — America First Policy Institute — taking up office space in Arlington, Va., hiring about 30 staffers so far, and, according to Rollins, raising millions of dollars.

 

Rollins is joining an increasingly long list of former White House officials who’ve set up Trump-allied political groups since the 2020 election, a roster that includes prominent figures in the former president’s orbit like ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. With Trump out of office and plotting his political future, the emerging ecosystem promises to bolster the former president as he prepares to dive into the 2022 midterm elections — and potentially launch a 2024 comeback bid.

 

The former aides are capitalizing on widespread donor interest in funding projects aligned with the former president, with pro-Trump givers ready to shell out big checks in order to keep the Trump agenda front and center. Now that the presidential campaign is no longer consuming donors, who can give unlimited amounts to nonprofits or super PACs, a space has emerged for former Trump advisers to finance their own endeavors.

 

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