Honest to goodness, there was a time not so long ago when this would have been a massive scandal.
NEW: Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, the Republican former governor of West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s.
By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social
Don Moynihan
EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”
