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Scott Pruitt Is Out at the EPA
It’s quite possible that everything Pruitt did (or allegedly did) would have been ignored in a Democrat administration. Still, it’s frustrating when everyone knows that the left will be digging for anything on anyone in a Republican administration (particularly this one) who touches left wing sacred cows like abortion, identity/race, or the environment. That Pruitt undoubtedly knew this and still did numerous things that left him open to charges of scandal means he should pay the price. Bad judgement is bad judgement, whether it’s doing something wrong or just giving the appearance in this environment.
This is more fun than playing “What have the Romans ever done for us.”
Evidence for this please?
Not a single thing here counters any of the allegations of corruption leveled at Pruitt.
So it turns out what Hillary did has no bearing on the corruption of Scott Pruitt.
What facts? Did or did not Scott Pruitt act in the ways he’s being accused of. Did he or did he not get a sweetheart deal on an apartment from an energy lobbyist? Did he or did he not use the resources of his office to secure his wife a lucrative Chick-Fil-A franchise? Did he or did he not waste taxpayer funds on first class plane trips. Did he or did he not use sirens to avoid DC traffic? You have not refuted one of these. Not one. Just insinuated that people are out to get him. So. What. If he wasn’t a corrupt doofus it wouldn’t matter.
It turns out that Trumps biggest fans don’t actually care about the swamp. They just want to change the mosquitos.
Which has a greater net effect on swamp reduction? Removal of one ‘corrupt’ executive, or reform of the entire EPA?
If you had the slightest idea of what actual corruption in Washington, DC comprises, you would be ashamed to advance this silly list of picayune accusations and expect people to take it seriously.
It’s quite possible to be bothered by all kinds of government corruption. If you had the slightest idea what ethics look like you would be ashamed to advance such silly whataboutisms.
Has his replacement resigned yet? Or will he need to be confronted and harassed a bit before they do. We must kill all these Republican swamp creatures as soon as possible. Of course we can leave the Democrat ones alone. Just the way of the world.
But when you concentrate on the picayune you ignore the serious corruption and allow it to flourish. Pruitt’s departure is a big win for the serious corrupttion of the EPA.
Who says I ignore the serious corruption?
I question that. If you couldn’t untangle it, you wouldn’t have quoted it and made a deliberate effort to ignore it.
Why else would he procure a Cone of Silence ala Max Smart.
So do Jamie Lockett and Fred Cole have an extensive list of other Trump appointees who need to retire and can easily be replaced and confirmed by a U.S. Senate with 51 Republicans including an absent John McCain, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, a few other rebellious Republican senators, and a completely hostile Democrat Party?
Because he’s paranoid?
No, why should I? Notice how there are many Trump Administration officials who don’t seem to be being forced to resign? Mattis, DeVos, Perry, Pompeo, Mnuchin, Sessions, Zinke, Perdue, Acosta, Azar, Chao, Nielsen, Haley, Mulvaney, McMahon, Coats – none of whom have allegations of corruption hounding them.
Carson has made some boneheaded purchases at HUD, wasting taxpayer dollars, but it hardly amounts to the scope of corruption of Pruitt – I think we can do better there but its not something we should care about.
Wilbur Ross has some truly troubling allegations of profiting off government power and knowledge that should be investigated and if true then he should resign.
I’m not a fan of the Steel Industry Triumvirate of Ross, Lighthizer and Navarro and think conservatives could have better people in those positions, but the President gets the advisors he wants and other than Ross there’s no real stink of corruption around them.
So the problem doesn’t seem as vast as you imply nor am I as unreasonable as you insinuate. Continue tilting at those windmills though.
Because people really are out to get him?
Also, the biggest threat to the positions of cabinet-level officials in the Trump administration appears to Donald Trump – so don’t get your dander up about little ole me, take it up with him.
Zinke shouldn’t be on that list. Depending on how things shake out, he may be the next to go.
True. Didn’t he spend like $150,000 on new doors for his office?
There’s some other stuff too.
One hit at a time/and that done well/is the very best way/to create a groundswell.
Just wait.
Noted Anti-Trump Activist Laura Ingraham: Pruitt is the swamp, drain it.
Not a single counter to any allegation of corruption leveled against a senior cabinet official. Same swamp, different bugs, at least their “our” bugs.
I hereby declare this post and all threads in it officially dead:
I think DeVos, Mnuchin, Zinke, Carson, Ross, Sessions, and Nielsen have been accused of being corrupt, but I don’t know if any of them ever asked for an employee to purchase hand lotion, so I don’t know the important details.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/04/02/the-worst-member-of-trumps-cabinet-a-bracketology/
Zinke is hated.
DeVos is hated.
Sessions is hated.
Mnuchin is hated.
Perry is hated.
Chao is hated and was recently in a shouting match.
Nielsen is hated. Didn’t the mob confront her too.
McMahon is hated.
The mob mostly goes after women, so perhaps Haley has suffered similar experiences. It’s the educated classes and probably urbanites who dislike Israel the most.
Still waiting…
There’s a very clear pattern to the mob here. I am convinced that in every one of these departments there are completely biased careerist bureaucrats who are intentionally undermining the new Secretary’s of their own Departments. They are leaking to the press and giving stories to make the leaders look bad. Just like the treachery we have seen already uncovered within the DOJ and FBI. These people hate the President and anyone who functions in his governing hierarchy.
They are focused on expenses for furniture and travel. Even if budgeted and “historically standard”. It seems that they are even “doing the ordering” and then having a press story come out which blames it on the boss. For example, Interior Secretary Zinke and “his” doors …
Interior Dept spending nearly $139000 on doors …
Something is very rotten in the state of D.C. I smell rats. Lots of them.
It turns out that Trump’s biggest detractors don’t actually care that the children of Cabinet officials are being attacked by the DNC-run media. Sad.