WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke arrived on horseback for his first day of work Thursday.
The morning after his swearing-in ceremony, the former Montana congressman and Navy SEAL joined the U.S. Park Police at their stables on the National Mall. He rode a 17-year-old Irish sport horse named Tonto through downtown Washington to the Interior Department's headquarters. Nine park police also on horseback accompanied him.
President Donald Trump's Twitter complaints about "illegal leaks" are easy to dismiss as the latest sign of his authoritarian streak.
Plenty of people already perceive Mr. Trump as a thin-skinned would-be-dictator on a power trip. A crackdown — even a purely rhetorical one — on the press and on whistleblowers that provide transparency into Mr. Trump's administration provides his opponents with additional evidence to confirm pre-existing fears.
