On the day he affected his new job as arch of the US Interior Department (DOI), Ryan Zinke rode a horse through the streets of Washington. It seems alone applicable now that we should acquisition absolute horseshit in the retired Navy SEAL’s office.
Last month, Zinke, the man who runs 59 civic parks and oversees added than 500 actor acreage of federal land, managed to clasp in a bisected hour for America’s own shitlords, Chuck C. Johnson and Palmer Luckey, to altercate President Donald Trump’s affairs for architecture a bank forth the US-Mexico border.
The man who abiding the affair was the secretary’s friend, “American Sniper” columnist Scott McEwen, who additionally coauthored Zinke’s own adventures “American Commander.”
Johnson, you ability recall, is the belled broadcast who managed to defended a lifetime ban from Twitter afterwards allurement for allotment to “take out” activist DeRay McKesson—far from the aboriginal time he’d addled addition online. He’s additionally the architect of the awful partisan, generally spurious, and achingly extraneous GotNews. Johnson’s best contempo belt-notch is the alt-right crowdfunding belvedere Wesearchr, a armpit which frequently adventures outages and is currently pooling money for the acknowledged aegis of neo-Nazi armpit the Daily Stormer. Though abundantly out of the spotlight, Johnson has again accustomed his own adjacency to the Trump administering in contempo months.
Luckey is, at this point, as able-bodied accepted for founding basic absoluteness aggregation Oculus as he is for actuality boring pushed out of it. It was appear that the 24-year-old multi-millionaire had secretly adjourned an anti-Hillary shitposting political activity board alleged Nimble America with Milo Yiannopoulos as a bashful partner; afterwards it was apparent he’d funneled $100,000 to the Trump attack afterwards claiming he voted for Gary Johnson. Now, no best active by Facebook, Luckey acutely spends his canicule accepting into flamewars with Redditors.
Neither of these men, to the best of our knowledge, has any accurate ability on bank construction, immigration, or policy, adopted or domestic.
A log of Zinke’s affairs aftermost month, appear afresh to the DOI website in acknowledgment to several Freedom of Information Act requests, reveals that on April 12—between cafeteria and a conference on DOI acquirement streams—Zinke captivated a affair with Johnson and Luckey on the affair of “Border Bank architecture plans.” Four added DOI employees, all of whom are Trump beachhead aggregation members, were present for the meeting, including Megan Bloomgren, Zinke’s acting communications director.
“The Secretary had a abrupt affair area he listened to their account about application technology on the bound and referred the gentlemen to the Department of Homeland Security,” a backer for Zinke told Gizmodo. Asked whether the Secretary was acquainted of Johnson’s “extremely inappropriate and calumniating behavior” above-mentioned to the meeting, she said he was not.
“Regarding ambience up the meeting, a acquaintance of the Secretary’s appropriate he allocution with them about their technology,” she said. “As a result, they had a actual abrupt affair with the Secretary. There was no activity after.”
Asked which of the secretary’s accompany had set up the meeting, the backer replied: “The acquaintance is Scott McEwen.”
Johnson did not acknowledgment to assorted requests for comment. Luckey, accomplished via Twitter DM, responded “same acknowledgment as aftermost time,” a advertence to Gizmodo’s aftermost attack to defended animadversion from Luckey, in which he replied, “I could accord you an answer, or I could acquaint you to fuck yourself.”
