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Feb 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Former Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke broke ethics rules while in office by improperly participating in negotiations over a real estate deal in his Montana hometown, according to a new DOI inspector general report. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
Beginning in 2017, we started investigating a range of concerns about Zinke's conduct in office, including his decision to exempt Florida from the expanded offshore drilling plan and his arrangement of personal VIP tours of national parks, among others.
americanoversight.org/investigation/…
We obtained a number of records, including documents that revealed that Zinke and his senior aides arranged for various taxidermied animals, including a bison, elk, grizzly, and moose, to be installed in their offices at taxpayer expense.
americanoversight.org/zinke-and-biso…
Other records showed how Interior officials under Zinke worked to arrange VIP tours of national parks for Trump administration allies, & revealed instances in which the line between extending courtesies and abusing agency privileges may have been crossed.
americanoversight.org/in-the-documen…
Learn more about what we uncovered — and the outstanding questions we still had when Zinke left office — here:
americanoversight.org/our-ryan-zinke…

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Feb 16
A failed legal challenge led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attempted to overturn the 2020 election results by invalidating results from four battleground states won by President Biden. Here’s what we’ve uncovered so far about Paxton’s lawsuit.
Paxton’s suit was thrown out by the Supreme Court within days, but not before it drew support from at least 125 Republican members of the House of Representatives, Trump himself, and the attorneys general of 17 other states.
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Feb 10
We obtained former Attorney General William Barr’s calendars for May 2019 through 2020. These records show Barr attended numerous White House meetings throughout President Trump’s first impeachment.
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On Dec. 2, 2019, House Republicans released their minority report on the impeachment inquiry. Barr’s calendars show he was at the White House the same day.
On Dec. 5, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the House Judiciary Committee to draft articles of impeachment. The next day, Barr had a White House meeting.
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Feb 9
In the weeks before the 2020 election, Chad Wolf — then acting secretary of DHS — traveled to swing states to tout Trump’s policies. Records we obtained, reported on by @TIME, show the use of government planes for these trips cost taxpayers $221,340.
time.com/6146191/chad-w…
Wolf’s trips to states including Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Texas cost taxpayers a total of $223,652.
These trips were part of a number of problematic and politicized trips prior to the 2020 election by top Trump administration officials, who traveled across the country to promote Trump’s policies.
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Feb 7
Emails we obtained, reported on by @politico, suggest that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has communicated regularly with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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On June 10, 2021, Justice Thomas’s wife, Ginni Thomas, reached out to DeSantis’ scheduling office to invite him to speak to a “coalition” of “conservative patriots.” ImageImage
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Feb 4
Emails we obtained, reported on by @politico, suggest that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in regular contact with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

In a June 2021, Ginni Thomas said DeSantis should be familiar with her because “my husband has been in contact with him[.]”
Ginni Thomas worked with the DeSantis administration to have him talk to a conservative groups, including people associated with Judicial Watch. She wanted DeSantis to talk to “conservative patriots.”
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Feb 3
The @washingtonpost reported that the Biden admin. urged USPS to reconsider its plans for Oshkosh Defense to build a new fleet of gas-fueled mail trucks.

We obtained records highlighting the gap between the plan & USPS’s environmental evaluation criteria.
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Oshkosh Defense’s design drew criticism for not going far enough in making the agency’s fleet more environmentally friendly.
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