AFP                              2017-12-06

Donald Trump’s US transportation secretary said on December 5, 2017 that she has suffered a “me too” moment of sexual harassment, the first member of the president’s cabinet to acknowledge being a victim of such abuse. “Of course. I think that’s the dirty little secret that a lot of women have held for a long time,” Elaine Chao told a Washington conference organized by the political news outlet Politico.Chao, 64, is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and is serving her second stint in a presidential cabinet. She was secretary of labor for eight years during the George W. Bush administration.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on June 9, 2017 shows US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao as she listens during in a roundtable discussion with US president Donlad Trump at the US Department of Transportation in Washington, DC.