BREAKING: Hawley Brutally Confronts Granholm About 'Institutionalized Corruption' Leading To Clash

Senator

Holly thank you Mr chairman Madam

Secretary nice to see you again when you

were here last I talked with you about

the fact that more than 130 officials in

the energy Department reported more than

2,700 trades of shares bonds and options

and companies that ethics officers said

was directly related to the agency's

work this is institutionalized

corruption and I asked you point blank

do you own any individual stock and you

told me

no let's just look at it it was not a

difficult question do you own individual

stocks Madam Secretary you said No in

fact you repeated it three times to me

no no no turns out that was false you

did own multiple individual socks and

you neglected to report it to this

committee for months afterwards why did

you mislead this committee oh my

goodness that was exactly my response so

why did you mislead this committee I

believed that I had sold all individual

stocks and I was incorrect so I came

back you just don't know the your

portfolio um pretty much it's a big one

I guess huh no it's extremely small um

apparently not someone manages it for

you so I came back as soon as I found

out that in fact I had not sold all

individuals wait wait wait wait no

that's not true either let's just look

at the Timeline let let's not you're I

just remind you you're under oath Madam

Secretary you testified you didn't own

any individual stocks you didn't sell

the stocks for a whole another month and

after you sold the stocks you

waited month before you informed this

committee why did you mislead us and

what were you hiding why did you wait so

long why did you hide this I did not

hide it because I brought it forth to

the committee when I realized that we

had made a mistake really what what what

explains the delay why did you wait for

a full month to exp to explain your

actions to this committee your false

testimony uh that's less than a month

and I sent a letter explaining what had

happened May the 15th to June the 9th we

going I owned a a Ford stock that was

you misled this committee and you wait

what were the stocks what were the

stocks that you owned it was a Ford

stock that my husband had owned since he

was very young and uh I just was not

aware of it and what were the others you

sold six stocks what were the other five

I sold uh non-conflicting stocks what

were they I don't honestly

I don't even know I do know they Ford

one because that was a conflict that's

why I ra this you're here before this

committee a year later after actively

misleading to us after denying and

delaying and delaying and now you won't

tell us was one of them

proa no you sat on the board of

directors at proera you made Millions

CNN reports and stock options at proera

then you you promoted proera stock and

proera products as Energy Secretary was

that one of the stocks that you sold

this is

so I mean really was that one of the

stocks you sold yes really you are

presiding over institutionalized

corruption in your energy Department you

have violated the stock act nine

separate times you have been referred by

the Inspector General for violations of

the Hatch

Act it is institutionalized corruption

that you are now the face of and here's

what I'm trying to figure out I just

want to know who really runs the energy

department is it you or is it the mega

Corporation whose stock that you own

that you're making profits in oh my

goodness or maybe it's the foreign

billionaires who fund your conferences

let's try something else do you know the

names of the foreign billionaires who

fund the conferences you go to since you

don't know the stocks do you know the

names of the foreign

billionaires this is unbelievable to me

let me help you Mr chairman one of them

isor Weiss a Swiss billionaire who has

used various dark money front group I

not know what youel various dark money

front groups to funnel foreign money

into American politics he has used the

burger action fund $20 million that then

sent money to the fund for a better

future that then sent money to The

Climate power group that has funded

conferences you've

attended do you know who this is do you

think it's a good idea to attend

conferences by Foreign billionair I have

no idea what you're talking you don't

know the stocks you don't know the

billionaires you would take no

responsibility Meanwhile your energy

Department executive in your energy

Department are trading stocks and in

companies that they have direct

oversight over and you were too that is

incorrect nobody and I in the department

of energy and we have a strong ethics

office does not trade stocks in anything

that they have oversight over that's

that

is not true Madam Secretary The Wall

Street Journal has reported on this

extensively Street I may Senator if I

might just ask the question is it

possible that maybe we can continue this

at a later time but if you had any

questions on the energy Direct Energy

policies M Mr chairman this is directly

relevant to institutionalized corruption

in the department of energy that she

oversees you're I think about to say

that that the Wall Street Journal

report's wrong The Wall Street Journal

report did not say that people over whom

they were were in areas where they were

directly overseeing headstocks they did

not our ethics office consults with all

of our employees that need to be cons

that that have a reporting requirement

about their stock Holdings they do not

own stocks in areas that they have any

influence over nor do I Madam Secretary

all I have to say is this record is just

deplorable it is Despicable it is

outrageous that hundreds of officers in

the energy Department are trading shares

it is outrageous that you misled us it

is outrageous that you are continuing to

mislead us and it is outrageous you're

going to conferences and events funded

by Foreign billionaires using dark money

to try to influence our politics this

has got to change and frankly you should

go thank you Mr chairman

uh Senator Lee