Report: Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao used office for personal gain

Does this really shock anyone?

An internal watchdog found evidence that Elaine Chao committed potential ethics violations while serving as transportation secretary under President Donald Trump, but the Justice Department declined to open an investigation.

Evidence collected by the Department of Transportation’s inspector general found that Chao had used her taxpayer-funded staff and office to do various personal tasks, as well as to help promote her wealthy family’s shipping business and sales of her father’s biography, according to the IG report released on Wednesday.

“A formal investigation into potential misuses of position was warranted,” Deputy Inspector General Mitch Behm wrote in a Tuesday letter to Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Honestly….this shouldn’t shock anyone who followed the 4 years of the Trump administration – an administration rooted in graft and led by Donald Trump, the most egregious grifter of our time.

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