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Thank you to @LastWeekTonight for covering @ItsDocumented's resources on noncitizen voting and mass voter challenges led by a well-funded network of MAGA conspiracy theorists. Watch the full segment here:
Congress is demanding David Bernhardt reveals his schedule. Bernhardt, a former oil, gas & mining lobbyist, is Trumps' pick to run the Interior Department. Here's proof his public calendar is missing key information, like meetings with top oil lobbyists
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Interior department official says he is โthrilledโ by Trumpโs โknack for keeping the attention of the media and public focused somewhere else.โ #uspolitheguardian.com/environment/20โฆ
WH Press Secretary @jrpsaki tells reporters that oil execs are making business decisions to slow oil production growth and reward shareholders - based on audio from investor calls.
"clear evidence of them acknowledging and even shouting that out"
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In a potential ethics violation @Interior official Todd Wynn met with the Council of State Governments, where he was a trustee and committee member until joining DOI. Wynn has long been a key figure in climate science denial huffingtonpost.com/entry/todd-wynโฆ
Scoop from @nytimes - @EPAScottPruitt landed plum tickets for 2018 Rose Bowl with help from Renzi Stone, an exec from Oklahoma marketing firm with fossil fuel clients. @ItsDocumented has an ongoing FOIA lawsuit against #EPA for records from this trip. nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/โฆ
David Bernhardt, acting secretary of @Interior and longtime fossil fuel lobbyist, has opened up the spigot for his former clients who want to lobby his department. "More than a dozen ex-clients have arranged at least 70 scheduled meetings.." #uspolihuffingtonpost.ca/entry/david-beโฆ
Documented has published 59 internal videos from the highly secretive Council For National Policy, with numerous other materials stamped "confidential." The videos span the years of the Trump admin, reveal how the right has coordinated to back Trump. documented.net/2020/10/documeโฆ#CNP