Angela Chao, shipping CEO and sister of Elaine Chao, dies in a car accident
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NBC ^
| By Kimmy Yam
Angela Chao, the CEO of the dry bulk shipping company Foremost Group and the sister of former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, has died in a car accident, according to the company and her family. Her
father, James S.C. Chao, said the family was “heartbroken” over her death. Neither the company nor her family provided further details of the accident.
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Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao breaks silence on Trump’s racist ‘chow chow’ nickname for her
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NY Post ^
| 01-26-2023 | Isabel Keane
Former transportation secretary Elaine Chao fired back at former President Trump for his racist remarks about her — insisting his attacks reveal “a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans.” Chao, 69 — who has been frequently been referred to by the former president as “Coco
Chow” — issued the rare rebuke of the former president on Tuesday. “When I was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name,” Chao, who was born in Taiwan, said in a statement to Politico. “Asian Americans have worked hard to change that experience for the next...
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Elaine Chao: Media shouldn’t repeat Trump’s racism
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The Hill ^
| 12/29/2022 | ZACH SCHONFELD
Elaine Chao, former President Trump’s Transportation secretary, is declining to respond to Trump’s latest use of a racist nickname to attack her and urging the media to not repeat it. Trump
on multiple occasions has invoked Chao as he lambastes her husband, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and he did so again on Wednesday evening in a Truth Social post that included a racist nickname for Chao. MEDIA Elaine Chao: Media shouldn’t repeat Trump’s racism BY ZACH SCHONFELD - 12/29/22 10:18 AM ET SHARE TWEET Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his wife, then-Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Samuel...
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Tapper: Trump’s ‘Heinous Attacks’ About Elaine Chao ‘Just Racist’
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Breitbart ^
| 10/03/2022 | Pam Key
CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Monday on his show “The Lead” that former President Donald Trump’s “heinous attacks” against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife, former Secretary Elaine Chao were “just racist.” Tapper
said, “In our politics lead, harsh criticism from former political allies of Donald Trump following a pair of heinous attacks against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, former Secretary Elaine Chao, she was the former Transportation Secretary for Trump. On his Truth Social account Trump wrote, quote, ‘Is McConnell approving all these trillions of dollars worth of Democrat-sponsored billions without even the slightest bit of...
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Trump Is Right. Mitch McConnell And Elaine Chao Spent Decades Getting ‘Rich On China’
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The Federalist ^
| AUGUST 24, 2022 | JORDAN BOYD
For decades, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have maintained a glaring conflict of interest, conducting extensive government business despite the Chao family’s deep ties to China through a maritime shipping company. Now,
former President Donald Trump is calling attention to the top Republican’s problematic China ties, while most of Washington remains silent. “Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate[?]” Trump asked in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “This is such an affront to honor and to leadership....
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Donald Trump says Mitch McConnell has a 'death wish' and insults his wife, Elaine Chao, after the senator voiced support for the Electoral Count Act reforms
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Yahoo News via Business Insider ^
| 09/30/2022 | Lloyd Lee
* Donald Trump said Sen. Mitch McConnell has a "death wish" for supporting "Democrat sponsored Bills." * He also insulted McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, referring to her as the "China loving wife, Coco Chow." * McConnell recently voiced support for changing the way Congress counts electoral votes. In
the latest salvo from the ongoing feud between Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, the former president posted what appeared to be a death threat against the Kentucky senator on Friday. After criticizing McConnell for approving "Trillions of Dollars worth of Democrat sponsored Bills," Trump wrote on Truth Social that he believes the...
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Trump demands Republicans get rid of Mitch McConnell 'immediately' as their Senate leader, calls him a 'pawn for the Democrats' and mocks his 'lovely' wife Elaine Chao after he criticized his MAGA candidates
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Daily Mail UK ^
| August 25, 2022 | Katelyn Caralle
Donald Trump demanded that Republicans replace Mitch McConnell as their Senate leader in a brutal statement where he attacked the Kentucky senator and his wife, former Transportation secretary Elaine Chao. The former president accused McConnell of being a 'pawn' for Democrats and said his inaction is causing moves in Congress 'our Country
can never recover from'. He also claimed that McConnell and Chao, who is Chinese, got 'rich' off of decades of business with China and said a new Republican Senate leader should be chosen. Most predictions point to Republicans taking back a majority in Congress in the 2022 midterms,...
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Trump Is Right. Mitch McConnell And Elaine Chao Spent Decades Getting ‘Rich On China’
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The Federalist ^
| AUGUST 24, 2022 | Jordan Boyd
For years, the McConnell and Chao families have cultivated a relationship that enriches the couple and grants status to the Chaos’ shipping company. For
decades, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have maintained a glaring conflict of interest, conducting extensive government business despite the Chao family’s deep ties to China through a maritime shipping company. Now, former President Donald Trump is calling attention to the top Republican’s problematic China ties, while most of Washington remains silent. “Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for...
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Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao would 'wake up' every day and wonder how they'd 'manage' Trump after the 2020 election: book
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Business insider ^
| 04/13/2022 | Oma Seddiq
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao, President Donald Trump's transportation secretary, no longer knew how to deal with the president, according to a forthcoming book. "Every
day the leader and I wake up saying, 'How do we manage the president?'" Chao told a friend in December 2020, per the book. CNN on Wednesday reported on the excerpt from the book, titled "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future," by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
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Elaine Chao Cited for Misuse of Office by Inspector General
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breitbart.com ^
| 3/3/2021 | Wendell Husabo
The Transportation Department’s Inspector General made public on Wednesday a report that cites repeated examples of former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao allegedly using her staff and her office to help benefit her family and their business operations and revealed that staff members at the agency had raised ethics concerns. Elaine
Chao is Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) wife, who notably resigned the day after the Capitol riot. The inspector general’s investigation detailed a series of instances in which Elaine Chao reportedly directed her staff to spend federal government time and resources to help with matters related to a family shipping...
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IG finds misuse of office by Elaine Chao at Transportation
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AP ^
| March 3 | By HOPE YEN
The Transportation Department’s watchdog asked the Justice Department to criminally investigate Elaine Chao late last year after it determined she had misused her office when she was transportation secretary under President Donald Trump but was rebuffed, according to a report released Wednesday. The report said the Justice Department’s criminal and public integrity
divisions declined in December to take up the case for criminal prosecution following the inspector general’s findings that Chao inappropriately used her staff and office for personal tasks and to promote a shipping business owned by Chao’s father and sisters. That company does extensive business with China. “A...
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Schweizer: Mitch McConnell, Wife Elaine Chao Financially Tied to the Chinese Government
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Breitbart ^
| 17 Jan 202 | TRENT BAKER
Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer on Sunday detailed how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his wife Elaine Chao are financially tied to the Chinese Communist Party. Schweizer said on Fox News Channel’s “The Next Revolution” that McConnell’s “position on China has softened over the years,” which he argued is
due to the growing relationship between the Chinese government and the Chao’s company. “Really, it goes to the fact that Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao, his wife, are financially tied to the Chinese government,” Schweizer outlined. “And it comes through the shipbuilding company that Elaine Chao’s family owns....
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Mitch McConnell plans to NEVER speak to Donald Trump again after his wife Elaine Chao quit Cabinet in disgust - but now faces questions over remaining at head of Republican party
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dm ^
| 1/8/2021 | schwab
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to never speak to President Donald Trump again. The
Washington Post reported this detail in a story describing how the president has alienated his allies in Washington with the way he handled Wednesday's riot on Capitol Hill. McConnell, the Senate's top Republican who will become minority leader once new Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock are sworn in, had been 'estranged' from Trump in recent weeks, The Post wrote.
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Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigns after Capitol siege
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigns after Capitol Seige
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AXIOS ^
| 1/7/2021 | Staff
Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao is resigning in the wake of the invasion of the Capitol building by "March for Trump" protesters, which was egged on by President Trump. Why it matters: Chao is the first Cabinet secretary to resign and is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Elaine Chao resigns as transportation secretary in wake of riot
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CNN.com ^
| January 7, 2021 | Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is resigning, a White House official and a person familiar with the situation tell CNN. She's the first Cabinet member to leave in wake of President Donald Trump's response to a mob of his supporters breaching the US Capitol. "It has been the honor of a lifetime to
serve the U.S. Department of Transportation," she tweeted on Thursday.
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Video Surface Of US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao Secretly Discussing Something With CCP VP Wang Qishan During The Japan Emperor Ceremony
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Conservative US ^
| 12.27.2020 | Alex Hall
Officially back in 2019 Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao represented the United States at the proclamation of the enthronement ceremony of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. While in Tokyo, Secretary Chao met with Embassy officials, including Chargé d’Affaires ad interim Joe Young, and paid a courtesy visit to Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe at the Akasaka Palace. Between high-level bilateral meetings, Secretary Chao and U.S. Department of Transportation officials also toured Japan’s high-speed rail system at Tokyo Station. The U.S. government had initially made arrangements to send Vice President Mike Pence to the ceremony on Oct. 22, in which...
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Ex-Trump lawyer calls Elaine Chao “China” in racial attack
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AsAmNes ^
| DECEMBER 18, 2020
President Trump’s former campaign lawyer Sydney Powell went on the attack against both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao this week. Powell
went after the couple after McConnell acknowledged the election of Joe Biden as President despite President Trump’s baseless insistence the election is fraudulent. “So Senate Majority leader decided to aid and abet the biggest criminal fraud and coup in history?,” Powell tweeted. She also retweeted a post from a Trump supporter saying “Mitch is married to China.”
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Mitch McConnell Loved His ‘Tough Wife’ Elaine Chao Standing Up to Protesters
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Newsweek ^
| June 29, 2018 | Greg Price
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell showered his wife, Elaine Chao, with praise Thursday night, over her confrontation with protesters who wanted the Kentucky Republican to answer for immigrant children being separated from their parents at the U.S. southern border. Chao,
who serves as transportation secretary, told the demonstrators to “leave my husband alone” as the couple departed an event at Georgetown University on Wednesday evening. McConnell explained he told his wife to hop into the waiting car, but Chao leapt into action....
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Georgetown Protesters Harass Mitch McConnell — Elaine Chao Fights Back
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The Daily Caller ^
| June 26, 2018 | Amber Athey
Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao told a group of protesters at Georgetown University to back off when they began harassing her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell and Chao were leaving an event at Georgetown University on Monday night when they were confronted by a group of protesters who repeatedly asked
McConnell why he was separating families and played audio of children crying at the border. WATCH: (VIDEO-AT-LINK) The protesters swarmed the SUV set to take McConnell and Chao off campus, and Chao immediately jumped into defense mode. WATCH: (VIDEO-AT-LINK) Chao repeatedly screamed at the protesters, “leave my husband...
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Elaine Chao Confirmed As Transportation Secretary, But Twelve More Nominees Pending Thanks To...
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Townhall ^
| 1/31/17 | Matt Vespa
Elaine Chao, the former labor secretary under President George W. Bush, has been overwhelmingly confirmed to be our next transportation secretary. By
a vote of 93-6, Chao became the third member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet to finish the nomination process. Still, twelve nominees remain in limbo, hampered by Democratic procedural techniques aimed to delay their confirmations for as long as humanly possible.The six Democrats who voted against Chao were Sens. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
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