This is a gracious resignation letter. Chao was also an astonishingly corrupt member of the cabinet and should be held accountable for it. https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1347251959712067584
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It's not as novel as the new fangled Trump-brand of corruption, just good old-fashioned waste, fraud and abuse. Every step of the way. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/elaine-chao-trump-corruption-still-happening.html
This Is Still Happening: Elaine Chao

Foreign entanglements, self-dealing, pay to play—the secretary of transportation might be in trouble if everyone else weren’t so bad.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/elaine-chao-trump-corruption-still-happening.html
All kinds of bad stuff. https://restorepublictrust.org/three-years-of-corruption-under-secretary-elaine-chao/
Three Years of Corruption Under Secretary Elaine Chao

Corruption has been rampant at the Department of Transportation since Secretary Elaine Chao’s confirmation three years ago.

https://restorepublictrust.org/three-years-of-corruption-under-secretary-elaine-chao/
Soooooo much bad stuff. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/politics/elaine-chao-house-investigation.html
Elaine Chao Investigated by House Panel for Possible Conflicts (Published 2019)

The Oversight and Reform Committee asked the transportation secretary to turn over documents related to communication with her family’s shipping company.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/politics/elaine-chao-house-investigation.html
We could do this all day long. We literally do not have the hours to cover it all. The Elaine Chao self-dealing and personal enrichment scandal beat is several full time jobs: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/opinion/elaine-chao-mitch-mcconnell.html
Opinion | Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell and Questions of Conflict (Published 2019)

Congress wants answers from the transportation secretary, wife of the Senate majority leader, about the apparent mixing of public and family business.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/opinion/elaine-chao-mitch-mcconnell.html
Help, I'm caught in an endless loop which each new Elaine Chao corruption scandal story links back to a prior one I'd forgotten about. I may never break free. https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/07/elaine-chao-kentucky-officials-grants-028412
Elaine Chao favored Kentuckians in meeting with officials seeking grants

The Transportation secretary met far more often with constituents of her husband Mitch McConnell than officials from any other state.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/07/elaine-chao-kentucky-officials-grants-028412
Chasten Buttigieg could spend the next four years literally looting the DOT building and he still wouldn't even come close to being the person who has financially profited the most from being married to the transportation secretary.
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