they were joking right???  


all this:
Trump's Cabinet Scandals: Is Abuse Of Office Contagious?

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/08/591524460/trumps-cabinet-scandals-is-abuse-of-...

"Is Trump worse than others?" she asked. "I think he's different, because the scandals are more related to the incompetence and venality, one might say, of people that he brought in."

I thought he had the best people?????


and now Elaine Chao....  

Corruption Is the Tie that Binds for Trump-Era Republicans

"The Transportation Department under Secretary Elaine Chao 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. Chao’s aide Todd Inman, who stated in an email to McConnell’s Senate office that Chao had personally asked him to serve as an intermediary, helped advise the senator and local Kentucky officials on grants with special significance for McConnell—including a highway-improvement project in a McConnell political stronghold that had been twice rejected for previous grant applications.

Chao was also in the news recently for boosting her family’s shipping company, which has deep ties to China."

https://newrepublic.com/article/154163/trump-corruption-binds-republican-party

Can't wait for the next "infrastructure week" .   bet she makes millions...  


https://www.vox.com/2019/6/11/18659681/elaine-chao-mitch-mcconnell-transporta...