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Tanuki

(16,303 posts)
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 12:03 PM 13 hrs ago

Trump Labor Sec accused of drinking and banging subordinate on the job

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/who-lori-chavez-deremer-inappropriate-relationship-office-drinking-secret-hotel-trysts-1769870

"Labour Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer faces investigation for inappropriate relationship with subordinate, office drinking, and travel fraud allegations.

The scandal arrived quietly at first—an internal complaint filed with a federal watchdog alleging that the Trump administration's Labour Secretary had been using her position to advance a personal romantic relationship, subsidising its progression with taxpayer money, and instructing staff to 'leave it alone' when colleagues grew concerned.

Labour Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, 57, the former Oregon congresswoman who was supposed to champion working Americans, now finds herself at the centre of a Department of Labour Office of Inspector General investigation that suggests she has systematically abused her authority in pursuit of an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.

The allegations are extraordinary not merely for their content but for their scope: at least three secret visits to her DC apartment, hotel trysts during official travel, office drinking sessions fuelled by hidden alcohol stockpiles, and a pattern of fabricating official trips designed to give her personal time on the government's dime.​"... (more)
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Trump Labor Sec accused of drinking and banging subordinate on the job (Original Post) Tanuki 13 hrs ago OP
Is there such a thing as a CILF porn? Johonny 13 hrs ago #1
👍 Rule 34 underpants 12 hrs ago #8
Not surprising of course PatSeg 13 hrs ago #2
Sounds like something we'd expect from a trump official. Turbineguy 13 hrs ago #3
After pedo enabler Alex Acosta in the 1st term, is this a step up or down? RockRaven 13 hrs ago #4
Leavitt: "It is absolutely necessary for the president's Cabinet secretaries to fuck government employees dalton99a 13 hrs ago #5
But what about Gov. Tim Walz 'scandal'? Mponti 13 hrs ago #6
whomst among us WhiskeyGrinder 13 hrs ago #7

underpants

(194,984 posts)
8. 👍 Rule 34
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:13 PM
12 hrs ago

The term "internet porn rule" primarily refers to Rule 34, an internet meme stating "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions"

To answer your question: Yes. I don’t know or want to know it stands for.

PatSeg

(52,216 posts)
2. Not surprising of course
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 12:05 PM
13 hrs ago

Like attracts like and we're not bound to find any integrity or character in this administration.

dalton99a

(92,161 posts)
5. Leavitt: "It is absolutely necessary for the president's Cabinet secretaries to fuck government employees
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 12:11 PM
13 hrs ago

on the taxpayer's dime"

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