A new trove of documents has exposed how intrusively a trio of Donald Trump’s wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago with absolutely no government experience meddled in the operations of the Department of Veterans Affairs and pestered staff with what one VA physician called “ridiculous” questions and demands.

The nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) in Washington has obtained more than 300 pages of emails involving golf resort members close to Trump who decided to reshape operations at the department that provides health care for 9 million vets.

Marvel Entertainment Chairman Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, lawyer Marc Sherman and West Palm Beach physician Bruce Moskowitz were exposed as a kind of secret “shadow government” at Mar-a-Lago with intrusive input into Veterans Affairs, Politico and ProPublica reported last year.

They had no experience in veterans affairs (none of them even served in the military) nor underwent any kind of approval process to serve as de facto managers. Yet, with Trump’s approval, they directed actions and criticized operations without any oversight. They wasted valuable staff time in hundreds of pages of communications and meetings, emails show. ProPublica last year obtained hundreds of pages of communications mostly from the three men. The CREW emails reveal disdainful attitudes within the department to the trio’s meddling.

The three men were particularly interested in a $16 billion technology contract for veterans hospitals and were instrumental in significantly delaying it, according to Politico. According to one email obtained by CREW, Moskowitz insisted on being included in “every call” involving VA contracts.

One department physician asked by a VA official to respond to questions from one of the triumvirate called the queries “just ridiculous. They don’t make any sense and there is a complete lack of understanding ... I’m just baffled,” the email stated.