A protester dressed as a “swamp creature” was escorted out of a confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary nominee David Bernhardt Thursday morning.Seriously weird:
The protester remained seated for two hours before being escorted out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.
A protester dressed as a “swamp creature” was escorted out of a confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary nominee David Bernhardt Thursday morning. The protester remained seated for two hours before being escorted out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.
Bernhardt, a former oil and gas industry lobbyist, reportedly helped block the release of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service study outlining the effects of pesticides on endangered species while working as a deputy Interior secretary under Ryan Zinke, according to The New York Times.
An Interior Department spokesman told the Times that Bernhardt's actions had been “governed solely by legitimate concerns regarding the legal sufficiency and policy.”
30 March 2019
Seriously, Reality Outstrips My Wildest Hallucinations
At the confirmation hearing for David Bernhardt, Trump's nominee to replace the fabulously corrupt Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior, a protester donned a "Creature from the Black Lagoon" mask:
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