HUFFINGTON POST • November 10, 2022
Ryan Zinke, the scandal-plagued former Trump administration official, is headed back to Congress and a city he likens to a “cesspool.” A key soldier of the Trump administration’s fossil fuel-centric “energy dominance” agenda, Zinke campaigned on sweeping promises to restore $2 per gallon gasoline, boost domestic oil and gas production and take on bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. Zinke’s record of ethical misconduct at the helm of the federal Department of the Interior and his lucrative ties to fossil fuel interests were fodder for his opponents. “I’ve seen the inside of the deep state,” Zinke told supporters at a Republican convention this summer. “It is as evil as you think it is. They fear me. I’m gonna rip their heart out.”