This is so corrupt. Trump wants the TVA to use coal to benefit one of his donors.
President Donald Trump on Monday publicly pushed the Tennessee Valley Authority to save an aging coal plant in Kentucky that buys its fuel from one of the president’s top supporters https://t.co/TXnvOIkobW
— POLITICO (@politico) February 12, 2019
.@Maddow: President Trump's open, shameless corruption risks numbing the American public to the scandal and outrage of actions like using the power of the presidency to help donors. https://t.co/3zFUipgfrV
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 17, 2019
Here's @realDonaldTrump seeking to prop up a coal supplier by keeping open a federal power plant.
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 13, 2019
So who benefits?
The owner of the coal company is a Trump donor…and a Trump customer. He was a "high rate" guest at the Trump Hotel. https://t.co/TFsT3Yibuq