Mitch McConnell's wife focus of new investigation into IG firing: report

[sunonmars]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/mitch-mcconnells-wife-ig-firing/

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could be drawn into a new scandal as he runs for reelection in Kentucky.

“Three leading House Democrats said Tuesday that they plan to open an investigation into the replacement of the Transportation Department’s acting inspector general, concerned that the move was tied to an ongoing investigation of Secretary Elaine Chao’s dealings with the state of Kentucky,” The Washington Post reported Tuesday.



Well Well Well, lookey here, so Mitch's wife was being investigated.....wanna bet Mitch ran interference.

Link to tweet

[Cha]

1. KR!

[Grasswire2]

2. The hits keep coming.

The stench of GOP corruption may be greater than the stench in the WH private residence.

[Bev54]

3. Was hoping and expecting this

read an article the other day. Ole' Moscow Mitch had a replacement all ready to go.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/wh-counsels-office-reportedly-directed-the-appointment-of-acting-ig-to-agency-run-by-elaine-chao/

[sunonmars]

5. Him and his rancid wife have been ripping off this country for decades.

[a kennedy]

4. THEY ARE ALL THE SWAMP.......

[keithbvadu2]

6. Isn't Trump going to blame her personally for the 'China virus'?

Isn't Trump going to blame her personally for the 'China virus'?

[iluvtennis]

11. LOL. Elaine Chao is Asian, so it would follow trumps pattern about blaming Asians for "Chyna". nt

[IcyPeas]

7. every freakin' one of them is in on it. /nt

[BHDem53]

8. How now

Moscow Chao?

[CottonBear]

9. Oh my! Here we go...

Moscow Mitch and his traitor wife need to go down.

[dlk]

10. Dear Elaine is as dirty as her hubby

Perhaps even dirtier...

[Iliyah]

12. I'm . . .

gonna believe this?

[cstanleytech]

13. I wonder how many Republicans will be scrambling to get onto flights to countries that will not

extradite them to the US on Trumps last day in office?

[warmfeet]

14. At this point,

does anyone on DU doubt that America is in deep trouble?

What are you, personally, willing to do about it?

A failing state. You live here. Your family and friends live here.

This is not hypothetical, this is happening in real time.

[crickets]

15. Oh, goody! I love a good domino cascade.

It's about time somebody decided to go after Mitch and Elaine. They're both up to their necks in corruption.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao-kentucky June 2019

Last month, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stonewalled a plan to fix the nation‘s roads, bridges, mass transit, and other crumbling infrastructure, despite the urgency of the issue and the outline of the deal receiving rare support from both Democrats and the White House. But, as it turns out, McConnell isn’t opposed to all infrastructure spending. In fact, he’s quite open to it when it‘s flowing specifically to towns in his home state, thanks to a special arrangement with the Transportation Department set up by his Cabinet secretary wife.

Politico reports that Elaine Chao, spouse of Mitch, “designated a special liaison to help with grant applications and other priorities from her husband Mitch McConnell’s state of Kentucky, paving the way for grants totaling at least $78 million for favored projects as McConnell prepared to campaign for reelection.” That liaison, Chao’s current chief of staff, Todd Inman, wrote in an email to McConnell’s office that Chao had “personally asked him to serve as an intermediary”—a benefit bestowed on no other state—and that he should be contacted if there were any “Ky-specific issue[s]” that should be flagged for the secretary’s attention. According to reporters Tucker Doherty and Tanya Synder, that included grants with special significance to the senator, such as a highway-improvement project that had twice been rejected.

I wonder if that rejected plan included other infrastructure in dire need of attention, say dams, perhaps? Michigan could have used a little help with that. Too bad Mitch and Elaine didn't think it was important enough to address infrastructure needs in states other than their own.

[niyad]

19. Rachel had quite a segment months ago on chao and turtle and the goodies going to KY.

Illuminating, and depressing. So much corruption.

Mrs turtle may have come here legally, as massacre mitch brags, buy she is as corrupt as they come.

[niyad]

16. Wasn't her family's shipping company involved in a scandal about drug smuggling? Cocaine??

[AZ8theist]

17. Moscow Mitch and China Chao...

Anti American scum.

[kimbutgar]

18. An IG MF45 can't fire !

[Operaweeble]

20. This stinks to high Heaven!

[panfluteman]

21. If Trump wants to fire an Inspector General to a certain department,

You can be sure that there is something going on with that department that he doesn't want inspected! Dipshit 45 is so transparent with his corruption!

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. I'll say it again. Balance of Powers. IGs in Executive branch departments should either be...

congressional employees or federal employees who can only be fired for cause. They should not be executive department appointees who serve at the pleasure of the president.

[cynical_idealist]

23. 100%

correct