Elaine Chao, the Transportation secretary during the Trump administration, issued a rare public comment as the former president repeatedly taunted her with racist names.
The most recent missive from the former president attempted to link Chao and her husband, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , to the classified documents found in President Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.
“Does Coco Chow have anything to do with Joe Biden’s Classified Documents being sent and stored in Chinatown?” Trump on Truth Social on Monday. “Her husband, the Old Broken Crow, is VERY close to Biden, the Democrats, and, of course, China.”statement, Chao said, “When I was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name. Asian Americans have worked hard to change that experience for the next generation. He doesn’t seem to understand that, which says a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans.
Chao served as transportation secretary for all four years of Trump’s presidency before announcing her resignation following theChao’s father, James S.C. Chao, founded a successful international shipping company. Shefrom Taiwan at age 8 without knowing how to speak English. She went on to graduate from Harvard Business School before working as a transportation banker. She also did stints as a White House fellow, at the Peace Corps, corporate boards and think tanks.
McConnell did not initially support Trump’s 2016 candidacy but aligned himself with the party’s standard-bearer once he secured the nomination. The two men developed a working relationship that produced legislation on tax cuts and the confirmations of a bevy of judicial appointments, but the alliance
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