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    Trump just picked another industry lobbyist to head a Cabinet agency

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Feb 06, 2019 3 minutes

    It didn't require supernatural powers of clairvoyance to guess the name of President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of the Interior as successor to the cartoonishly unethical Ryan Zinke.

    Trump's choice, David Bernhardt, has been working as Zinke's deputy virtually since the start of the Trump administration. He had served a prior stint at the agency under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009.

    But the key to the appointment plainly is his history as an industry lobbyist.

    That's not just a shot in the dark. Bernhardt's career record as a

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