{"id":178384,"date":"2018-12-16T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/16\/cue-freddie-mercury-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-16T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T00:00:00","slug":"cue-freddie-mercury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/16\/cue-freddie-mercury-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cue Freddie Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rY0WxgSXdEE\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Soon to be former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/interior-secretary-zinke-resigns-amid-investigations\/2018\/12\/15\/481f9104-0077-11e9-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html\">is resigning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Much like former EPA chair Scott Pruitt, his rampant and blatant corruption eventually proved too much:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke submitted his resignation to the White House on Saturday, facing intense pressure to step down because of multiple probes tied to his real estate dealings in his home state of Montana and his conduct in office. <\/p>\n<p>President Trump announced Zinke\u2019s exit via Twitter on Saturday morning and praised the departing Interior chief. \u201cSecretary of the Interior @RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after having served for a period of almost two years,\u201d the president tweeted. \u201cRyan has accomplished much during his tenure and I want to thank him for his service to our Nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fired over twitter, epic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Zinke \u2014 57 and the first Montanan to have served in a presidential Cabinet \u2014 is the fourth member of Trump\u2019s Cabinet to resign under an ethics cloud in less than two years. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt also relinquished their posts amid scrutiny on subjects including how they spent taxpayer money on their travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure, Zinke came under at least 15 investigations, including: inquiries into his connection to a real estate deal involving a company that Interior regulates; whether he bent government rules to allow his wife to ride in government vehicles; and allowing a security detail to travel with him on a vacation to Turkey at considerable taxpayer cost.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how petty, small, and pervasive their corruption is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon to be former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is resigning. Much like former EPA chair Scott Pruitt, his rampant and blatant corruption eventually proved too much: Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke submitted his resignation to the White House on Saturday, facing intense pressure to step down because of multiple probes tied to his real estate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,368,407,454],"class_list":["post-178384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-corruption","tag-justice","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}