Here Are Just Some Pictures Of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin And Mitch McConnell Holding Gold
The pictures come from a Freedom of Information Act request connected to last year's trip to Fort Knox to watch the solar eclipse.
Remember when Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin watched the solar eclipse on a controversial trip to Kentucky last year? Well, he also held gold in his hands.
Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, took a trip to Fort Knox, Kentucky, last year on the same day as the solar eclipse — a trip on a military aircraft that cost taxpayers nearly $33,000. New photos obtained by BuzzFeed News through a Freedom of Information Act request show him and other Republican officials posing with gold bars at the US Bullion Depository.
Mnuchin also signed his name next to some gold bars.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also got in on the gold bar action.
And a very happy McConnell signed his name, too.
And then Mnuchin and McConnell held a gold bar together.
Gold wasn't the only attraction. Mnuchin and Linton got to take in the solar eclipse too, from outside the Search House of the US Bullion Depository.
This particular picture was first obtained by FOIA and published by ThinkProgress.
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Tarini Parti is a politics reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
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