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Court records: Wife of Trump Org ethics attorney arrested after tryst with Fauquier inmate
n ongoing investigation into “suspicious” activity in the back seat of a car involving an inmate trustee at the Fauquier County jail led to the Tuesday arrest of Teresa Jo Burchfield, the wife of an ethics attorney to President Donald Trump’s business organization.

Burchfield, 53, is married to Bobby R. Burchfield, a partner at Washington’s King and Spalding, who was appointed as an independent ethics advisor to the Donald J. Revocable Trust in January.

Burchfield, a longtime Republican attorney, served as counsel to President George W. Bush in the 2000 Florida recount.



Teresa Jo Burchfield was arrested Tuesday afternoon in a parking lot adjacent to the Fauquier County Adult Detention Center after deputies found her in the backseat of a car with an inmate/trustee at the jail, according to sheriff’s office Sgt. James Hartman.

Burchfield and the 23-year-old inmate were having sex in the car, according to a criminal complaint filed at Fauquier County General District Court.

"The defendant was caught in the backseat of her vehicle with an inmate...," Dept. J. B. Thorpe wrote in Burchfield's criminal complaint. "When the inmate exited the vehicle, he handed me a bag of brown pills (capsules), that he claims to be workout pills."

After the two were discovered, the inmate, Hartman said, was found in possession of cigarettes, clothes, vitamin supplements and other “unauthorized articles alleged to have been obtained from the female.”

The inmate was on trustee status at the time, meaning he was jailed on “minimal charges” and “authorized to perform work inside and outside of the detention center and sheriff’s office facilities,” Hartman said in a statement.

The inmate told deputies he had been meeting with Burchfield for about a month, court filings say.

The Sheriff’s Office declined to identify the inmate or describe his connection to Burchfield.



Burchfield was charged with willfully delivering unauthorized articles to a confined prisoner, a class 1 misdemeanor. She was released on $5,000 secured bond.

Attempts to contact Teresa Burchfield and Bobby Burchfield were not immediately successful Thursday morning.

 
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Sanders rips DeVos rewrite of campus sexual assault policy
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ripped Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday for her decision to rollback Obama-era sexual assault guidance.

"Secretary DeVos made an outrageous announcement that she plans to overturn an Obama initiative that protected women," Sanders wrote on Twitter.

"Campus sexual assault is a major problem that must be dealt with. We must do everything possible to make sure our campuses are safe for all," Sanders added, calling the decision a "disservice" to people who have worked to combat sexual assault.


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ICE Planned, Then Canceled, Largest Immigration Raid In Its History
Thursday evening, NBC reported that ICE was planning the largest immigration raid in its history that would target 8,400 undocumented immigrants. When asked about the raids, ICE said that they had been canceled due to the hurricanes. The raids have been planned since August and were scheduled to last for five days beginning on September 17th. They were called "Operation Mega."

Trump Administration Files Brief Supporting Anti-Gay Baker
The Trump administration filed a brief Thursday supporting the argument of an anti-gay baker that his choice to not bake a cake for a gay couple was a protected act of free speech. Jack Phillips was found to have violated Colorado's anti-discrimination laws after refusing to make gay wedding cakes in 2012. Now his case is set to appear in front of the Supreme Court.

Trump Agrees To Work With Democrats To End Debt Ceiling
The Washington Post reports that President Trump has made an agreement to work with Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to repeal the requirement that forces Congress to routinely vote to increase the debt ceiling. The agreement occurred during Wednesday's meeting between the three, where Trump agreed with Democrats' plan that packaged Hurricane Harvey relief with an increase to the debt ceiling.

Special Investigator Looks To White House Staff On Trump Tower Meeting Questions
CNN reports that Special investigator Robert Mueller is seeking to interview White House staff that were aboard Air Force One when President Trump crafted his response to the revelation that Donald Trump Jr. held a meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer and lobbyist during Trump's presidential campaign. Mueller reportedly is seeking to discover whether Trump left out any information he was aware of or intentionally misled the public with the letter.
 

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For a guy who is into weird sex stuff like golden showers, you'd think that Trump would be more open minded on LGBT issues.
 

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US pulls back surveillance on ISIS convoy at Russian request
Surveillance aircraft that were monitoring an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) convoy stuck in the desert in eastern Syria have left the area at the request of Russian officials, the U.S.-led coalition said Friday.

“To ensure safe de-confliction of efforts to defeat ISIS, coalition surveillance aircraft departed the adjacent airspace at the request of Russian officials during their assault on Dawyr Az Zawyr,” the coalition said in a statement.

ISIS fighters and their family members have been stranded on eleven buses in the desert for more than a week.

The convoy showdown began last month, when ISIS struck a deal with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah — a chief ally of the Syrian government — for safe passage from an area near the Syrian border with Lebanon to ISIS-held territory in eastern Syria bordering Iraq. To get there, the original 17-bus convoy planned to travel through Syrian government-controlled territory.

The U.S.-led coalition, intent on making sure the convoy did not make it to the Iraqi border and link up with other ISIS fighters, cratered the road and destroyed a bridge with airstrikes. That forced six buses to turn back to Palmyra, a Syrian government-controlled city, and stranded the remaining 11.

A U.S. spokesman for the coalition told reporters Thursday that it has been striking ISIS fighters walking away from the convoy or trying to link up with the group, estimating that 85 ISIS fighters have been struck since the start of the standoff.

The coalition has not struck the convoy itself and has allowed food and water to get through, citing the women and children in the buses.

Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the coalition, also said Thursday that the United States had used the so-called deconfliction line it uses to communicate with the Russians to try to separate the women and children from the ISIS fighters. But Dillon said that effort had “not gained any traction."

Syrian forces broke a three-year ISIS siege on Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria earlier this week. As part of that assault, pro-Syrian regime forces advanced past the ISIS convoy Friday morning, according to the coalition.

“From the start of this situation on Aug. 29, we have placed responsibility for the buses and passengers on the Syrian regime, who in conjunction with Lebanese Hezbollah brokered a deal with ISIS to move its terrorists into Iraq,” Brig. Gen. Jon Braga, director of operations for the coalition, said in a statement. “The regime’s advance past the convoy underlines continued Syrian responsibility for the buses and terrorists. As always, we will do our utmost to ensure that the ISIS terrorists do not move toward the border of our Iraqi partners.”


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Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 08, 2017
Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

SUBJECT: Delegation of Authority under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby make the following delegations:

I delegate to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to administer financial sanctions under section 1263 of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Public Law 114-328) (the "Act"). In exercising the authority delegated by this memorandum, the Secretary of the Treasury will coordinate with the Secretary of State.

I also delegate to the Secretary of State the authority to administer visa sanctions under section 1263 of the Act.

The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

The delegations in this memorandum shall apply to any provision of any future public law that is the same or substantially the same as section 1263 of the Act.

DONALD J. TRUMP
 

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With All Eyes on DACA, the Trump Administration Is Quietly Killing Overtime Protections
On September 5, the administration of Donald Trump formally announced that they won’t try to save Obama’s overtime rule, effectively killing a potential raise for millions of Americans. This disturbing development has largely slipped under the radar during a busy news week, marked by Trump’s scrapping of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Twenty-one states and a number of business groups sued the Obama administration last September, after the Department of Labor (DOL) announced the new rule, accusing the former president of overreach.

That lawsuit led to Amos Mazzant, a federal Obama-appointed judge in Texas, putting the rule on hold last November, shortly before it was set to become law. On August 31, Mazzant struck the rule down, and—less than a week later—Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to challenge the District Court’s decision. In a court filing, a DOJ lawyer said that the administration would not appeal.

The Obama administration’s rule would have raised the overtime salary threshold considerably. The threshold hadn’t been increased by any administration to adequately reflect wage growth or inflation, which means that many workers only see overtime pay if they make less than about $23,660 a year. Obama had scheduled that number to be bumped up to about $47,476 after reviewing 300,000 comments on the subject.

“The overtime rule is about making sure middle-class jobs pay middle-class wages,” former Labor Secretary Tom Perez told reporters on a call after the rule was announced in May 2016. “Some will see more money in their pockets … Some will get more time with their family … and everybody will receive clarity on where they stand, so that they can stand up for their rights."

While the overtime rule faced predictable opposition from Republicans and business groups, it also received backlash from some liberal advocacy organizations. In May 2016, U.S. PIRG, the popular federation of non-profit organizations, released a statement criticizing Obama’s decision. “Organizations like ours rely on small donations from individuals to pay the bills. We can’t expect those individuals to double the amount they donate,” said the group.

Critics of the statement pointed out that U.S. PIRG’s opposition suggests they have employees not being paid for overtime despite their low wages. The group was slammed by progressives for supporting a regressive policy when it benefited their economic interests.

The DOL claimed that the rule would mean a pay increase for about 4.2 million Americans, but the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) contends that the DOL’s figure is far too low. According to EPI, the DOL’s analysis fails to take the impact of George W. Bush’s overtime policies into account and relies heavily on statistics that were generated before he took power. EPI estimates that, because of changes to employee classifications in 2004, roughly 6 million workers had their right to overtime destroyed.

The EPI’s study of the overtime rule determined that about 12.5 million workers would have been impacted if it had been implemented. A wide range of workers would have potentially seen a pay increase, including 6.4 million women, 1.5 million African Americans and 2.0 million Latinos, the EPI concludes.

“Once again, the Trump administration has sided with corporate interests over workers, in this case, siding with business groups who care more about corporate profits than about allowing working people earn overtime pay,” Heidi Shierholz, who leads the EPI’s Perkins Project on Worker Rights and Wages, told In These Times.

The Trump administration’s move might be disappointing for workers’ rights advocates, but it’s hardly surprising. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump vowed to kill the overtime rule if elected. "We have to address the issues of over-taxation and overregulation and the lack of access to credit markets to get our small business owners thriving again,” he said in an interview. “Rolling back the overtime regulation is just one example of the many regulations that need to be addressed to do that.”

While many pundits have focused on Trump’s unrelenting series of failures and scandals, his administration has quietly waged a fairly successful war on labor. In addition to nixing one of Obama’s most notable policy achievements, the Trump administration is also poised to stack the National Labor Relations Board with a pro-business majority, has proposed major cuts to the Labor Department and has rolled back safety protections for workers.

Last month, Bloomberg reported that Trump’s Labor Department had created an office specifically designed to reconsider government regulations. The office will be run by Nathan Mehrens, the anti-union lawyer who is also in charge of the department’s policy shop.

Trump geared much of his campaign rhetoric toward the U.S. worker, vowing to dismantle exploitative trade agreements and bring back jobs. However, his administration has simply emboldened the anti-labor forces that have dictated economic policy for decades.
 

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Influential lawyer who inspired Trump’s Muslim ban claims ‘whites are genetically superior’ to people of color
In a report for The Daily Beast, Muslim comedian Dean Obeidallah comments on the findings of a new UC Berkeley report titled “Legalizing Othering: The United States of Islamophobia,” in which Yerushalmi figures prominently.

Yerushalmi may not be as “flamboyant” as others within the “movement,” Obeidallah writes, but has been effective all the same in his pairing of a legal background with virulently anti-Muslim writings.

A proponent of the right-wing Israeli settlement movement, Yerushalmi has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for his bigoted views about Muslims as well as black people, immigrants and women. He’s argued that white people are “genetically superior” to black people, and provocatively stated that “there is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote.”

His blatant bigotry appears not to be a liability to the Republicans who embrace his ideology and use his legal rhetoric to propose and pass anti-Sharia law bills. He’s senior counsel of the American Freedom Law Center, a right-wing legal group that represented “national security experts” in a Supreme Court brief in defense of Trump’s Muslim ban. The AFLC also represents the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think tank that Trump cited in his initial calls for a “Muslim ban” while on the campaign trail in 2015.

Yerushalmi could even have been the forefather of the Muslim ban, because, as Obeidallah notes, he’s been “calling for a total ban on Muslim immigration to the United States years before Trump espoused that view.”
 

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Steve Bannon says Comey firing maybe biggest mistake in modern political history
Just-departed chief White House strategist Steve Bannon referred to the firing of FBI director James Comey as perhaps the biggest mistake in modern political history, commenting in his first televised interview since leaving government.

Donald Trump’s ex-strategist and campaign manager insisted he will continue to support the president’s agenda against the pro-trade, pro-globalization Republican establishment they both deeply disdain.

But Steve Bannon made clear his view that Trump set in motion a damaging chain-reaction by firing the former FBI director this spring. He offered a no comment when asked whether the firing was supported by one of his political nemeses: Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

“The media has reported I was adamantly opposed to that,” Bannon told a 60 Minutesinterview, in an exchange left out of Sunday’s broadcast.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that if James Comey had not been fired we would not have a special counsel . . . We would not have the Robert Mueller investigation. We would not have the Mueller investigation in the breadth that clearly Mr. Mueller is going.”

When asked about media reports that Bannon supposedly viewed the firing as the biggest mistake in political history, he at first called that slightly bombastic, then added a caveat: “Maybe modern political history.”

The tumult caused by the FBI director’s firing prompted Justice Department officials to name a special investigator. The investigator, Mueller, is now reportedly examining a range of alleged incidents including obstruction of justice and money-laundering, and numerous White House staff and presidential associates have hired lawyers.

Bannon was asked whether he agreed with some Trump allies who want to try firing Mueller. He said: “No, I do not.” When asked about media reports that Kushner pushed for Comey’s firing, he said: “You will have to find that out either through the media or through the investigation.”

Kushner is among the numerous rivals he clashed with in the White House.

In the 60 Minutes interview, he sought to settle scores with a few of them. He suggested economic adviser and Democrat Gary Cohn should resign, rather than complaining publicly about the way Trump handled the racial incident in Charlottesville.

He also accused the Republican Party’s leadership of trying to block Trump’s agenda.

The congressional wing of the party is more supportive of trade deals like NAFTA, more favourable to immigration, and less supportive of funding a wall with Mexico, than Trump is.

“The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election,” Bannon told the interviewer Charlie Rose.

“That’s a brutal fact we have to face . . . I think (Senate Leader) Mitch McConnell, and to a degree, (House Leader) Paul Ryan, they do not want Donald Trump’s populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It’s very obvious.”

He suggested a current split over undocumented children could rip the party apart. He predicted a nationalist, populist movement will prevail in American politics — but it’s not yet clear whether it will be of a left-wing or right-wing variety.

Bannon said that depends on whether Republicans or Democrats take up the cause of trade-skepticism.

Steve Bannon says Republicans could lose U.S. House in 2018 over immigration fight
Republican infighting over the fate of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children could be so vitriolic that the party loses control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, said in an interview airing on Sunday.

Bannon, whose far-right views on immigration, climate and trade helped shape Trump's presidential campaign and his first months in office, was fired by the Republican president last month in a push to end factional fights within the White House.

In an interview with the CBS program 60 Minutes, Bannon predicted Republicans could lose control in the House in the 2018 congressional elections because of a looming battle over what to do about 800,000 immigrants known as "Dreamers."


Trump said last week he would scrap a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that allowed the young immigrants to live and work in America.

Bannon supported ending the program, which had been put in place by Democratic former President Barack Obama.


Trump gave the Republican-controlled Congress six months to come up with an alternative, saying he would "revisit this issue" if lawmakers could not agree.

"I'm worried about losing the House now because of this," Bannon told CBS.

"If this goes all the way down to its logical conclusion, in February and March it will be a civil war inside the Republican Party," he said. "And to me, doing that in the springboard of primary season for 2018 is extremely unwise."

Republicans are divided over the Dreamers. Some believe they are illegal immigrants who are taking American jobs, while others say they contribute to the country and deserve compassion.

Bannon, who said he left the White House on his own terms, lashed out against "establishment" Republicans who have at times grappled with Trump, a real estate celebrity who had never before held elected office.


"The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election," Bannon said, saying it was an "open secret on Capitol Hill" that many Republicans did not support Trump's agenda, and singling out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan for criticism.

"They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented," Bannon said.

He called Republican national security officials who had served in the George W. Bush administration "idiots," including former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, and former Vice President Dick Cheney.

"I hold these people in contempt, total and complete contempt," Bannon said, blaming them for U.S. trade problems with China and involvement in Iraq.

"They're idiots, and they've gotten us in this situation, and they question a good man like Donald Trump," Bannon said.
 

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Trump Asks Supreme Court To Restore Refugee Travel Ban
The Trump Administration has asked the Supreme Court to stay an appeals court ruling on the administration's travel ban that ruled the 24,000 refugees that has been promised they would receive basic services must now be admitted to the US. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments concerning Trump's travel ban in its entirety on October 10th.

Update: The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump Administration, ruling that the refugee travel ban will remain in effect until it hears from groups challenging the law on October 10.

Pope Criticizes Trump For DACA Decision
In a press conference aboard his plane on Monday, Pope Francis criticized President Trump when asked about his decision to end DACA, according to CNN. "[Trump] presents himself as pro-life and if he is a good pro-lifer, he understands that family is the cradle of life and its unity must be protected," Francis said. The pope and Trump previously clashed last year, when the pope said building a wall was "not Christian."

Trump Hires Company Owned By China After Pledge To Avoid Transactions With Foreign Entities
McClatchy reports that despite Trump's pledge that his companies would not engage with foreign entities, Trump's golf course in Dubai has just given a $32 million contract to the Chinese state-owned construction company China State Construction Engineering Corporation. The company was awarded the contract by the Trump Organization's partner in the golf course, DAMAC Properties.

Trump Marks 9/11 Anniversary With Speech And Moment Of Silence
President Trump marked the anniversary of 9/11 with a speech and moment of silence today, according to Politico. Trump took a tough tone with terrorist enemies of the US, saying: "The terrorists who attacked us thought they could incite fear and weaken our spirit. But America cannot be intimidated and those who try will soon join the long list of vanquished enemies who dared to test our mettle."
 

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Russia Used Facebook Events To Organize Anti-Immigrant Rallies In US
The Daily Beast reports that Russian operatives used Facebook events to organize anti-immigrant rallies in Idaho during the presidential election. Facebook has reportedly confirmed that the activities did take place, and were connected to last week's report that Facebook has found multiple fake accounts connected to Russian hackers. Facebook says that the events were promoted using Facebook's paid advertising system, and were explicitly promoting the idea that Muslim immigrants were taking over Twin Falls, Idaho.

In an interview released Tuesday, Hillary Clinton told Pod Save America that she believed the Trump campaign or an associate had a hand in Russian targeting on Facebook.

Kremlin Proposed Diplomatic Normalization To Trump Administration
BuzzFeed reports that a secret document reveals a proposal presented to the Trump Administration by the Kremlin in March that would normalize diplomatic relationships between the states. The document sketches out a series of meetings between top officials that would promote cooperation between the militaries, intelligence agencies, and diplomatic missions of each state. The White House and State Department did not deny the existence of the proposal, and a staffer described Russia's expectations as "unrealistic" when they were approached. It is clear that the Trump administration did not accept the proposal in-full — having recently ejected Russian diplomats from the US — but any partial agreement has not been confirmed.

Why Trump's Picture Is Missing From Federal Buildings
Since the Civil War, every president has sat for a portrait photograph to be taken by The Government Publishing Office. Traditionally, these portraits have been hung in the lobby of every federal building. Trump may be set to break that tradition, however. The Washington Post reports that federal buildings have not yet hung his portrait because he hasn't sat for his photograph yet — an odd oversight for a President who built his campaign off of name and face recognition.
 

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Why Trump's Picture Is Missing From Federal Buildings
Since the Civil War, every president has sat for a portrait photograph to be taken by The Government Publishing Office. Traditionally, these portraits have been hung in the lobby of every federal building. Trump may be set to break that tradition, however. The Washington Post reports that federal buildings have not yet hung his portrait because he hasn't sat for his photograph yet — an odd oversight for a President who built his campaign off of name and face recognition.
I went into a Federal building recently to conduct some business. Imagine my surprise to see Obama's picture still looming large.

Warmed my heart for a moment.
 

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I went into a Federal building recently to conduct some business. Imagine my surprise to see Obama's picture still looming large.

Warmed my heart for a moment.

Obama will be large and in charge until Trump can repeal and replace.
 

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Evidence Builds Against Michael Flynn
CNN reports that House Democrats from the House Oversight Committee have sent special investigator Robert Mueller what they say is evidence of an undisclosed trip that Michael Flynn took to broker a deal between Saudi Arabia and Russia. The lawmakers say that the alleged omission from Flynn's security clearance application in 2016 violates the law.

According to CNN, Flynn has continued to deny requests from both the House and Senate intelligence committees to testify.

Politico adds to claims mounting against Flynn, reporting that Flynn was paid $25,000 by the backers of a middle east nuclear power "Marshall Plan," before he advocated for the plan during the transition.

Trump Weighs Drastic Cuts To Refugee Admission
President Trump is weighing capping refugee admissions even further for the upcoming year after initially cutting it in half. Trump initially cut admissions to 50,000 from 110,000. Stephen Miller has suggested a 15,000 person cap, and now the Department of Homeland Security has recommended a 40,000 person cap.

Congress Sends Trump Bill Forcing Condemnation Of White Supremacists In Charlottesville
Tuesday evening, The House passed a bill explicitly condemning white supremacists and the killing in Charlottesville. The Senate passed a version of the bill earlier, which means it will now land on Donald Trump's desk. Trump repeatedly expressed that there was violence on "many sides," and called some of the alt-right protesters "very fine people."

Michael Flynn's Son Target Of Federal Investigation
NBC reports that fired NSC chief Michael Flynn's son, Michael G. Flynn, is now under investigation as part of the federal investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 US presidential election. Flynn worked closely with his father at Flynn Intel Group and has accompanied him on trips to Russia.

Mnuchin Requested Use Of Government Jet For Honeymoon
ABC News reports that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin requested, in writing, the use of a government jet for his honeymoon in Europe with Scottish actress Louise Linton this summer. The request reportedly triggered an inquiry by the Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General. Linton made headlines last month when she mockingly asked a random Instagram commenter, "Do you think the US govt paid for our honeymoon or personal travel?! Lololol."