As President Trump continues his unprecedented and illegal attack on America’s national monuments, he and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke are being egged on by the Sutherland Institute, the Utah arm of the Koch brothers’ right-wing policy network.
In a clumsy attempt to justify Secretary Zinke’s secret report to the president, Sutherland’s Matt Anderson is writing op-eds that cite misleading data to claim President Obama used the Antiquities Act in unprecedented ways to “lock up” hundreds of millions of acres of American land.