As I keep asking, how does he keep his job?
“We now have concrete evidence that Scott Pruitt offered to use taxpayer resources to do favors for the lobbyist who gave him a sweetheart deal on a D.C. condo,” says the executive director of the Sierra Club. https://t.co/9HjRJ6w2tv
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 24, 2018
this particular swamp monster is both slippery and sticky … #BootPruitt https://t.co/voclNfKG9u
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) June 25, 2018
Just posted: E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, discussed hiring the friend of his former lobbyist landlord, new emails suggest. With @LFFriedman https://t.co/PzqDI1e6PY
— Hiroko Tabuchi (@HirokoTabuchi) June 24, 2018
“The problem is he is not Trump — he is not a billionaire. But he sincerely thinks he is.”
Great reporting by my colleagues here on Pruitt's sense of entitlement. Everywhere he looks in the cabinet he sees wealthy people. He's not one of them. https://t.co/Bzr2vPVY1D— Jeremy W. Peters (@jwpetersNYT) June 15, 2018
Wife of deceased US Senator who Congress named legislation after in 2016 as it revamped toxic chemical regulatory system in the United States. She chastises Pruitt over how he has implemented the landmark new law, nicknamed TSCA. https://t.co/QUHEcELV8Z
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) June 23, 2018
"Scott Pruitt's many, many scandals." Heck of a graphic on @KasieDC pic.twitter.com/m8tjhiCHOu
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 18, 2018
Pruitt himself wanted to help his daughter get into UVA's elite law school. He placed a call to the former GOP speaker of the Virginia House, a UVA law school graduate, and ask him to weigh in with the UVA dean. His daughter got in.
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) June 15, 2018
Scott Pruitt has spent a total of $4.6 million on security, new disclosures show — including $1,500 on “tactical pants” https://t.co/zy0GWLEgqd by Lee Fang @nicksurgey
— The Intercept (@theintercept) June 20, 2018
Scott Pruitt is trying to bury his pro-polluter agenda https://t.co/Xx8vtGhrOJ
— Salon (@Salon) June 16, 2018
Pruitt shocks former ethics officials
Pruitt pitched Trump on TV debate where he'd argue against climate change – and Trump loved it. He tried to get involved in NAFTA. He came to Oval w/dripping ice cream to fight Paris Accord. He pushed rules on imported cars that lawyers deemed illegal. https://t.co/zjS7gyZaWb
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 16, 2018
Scott Pruitt Wanted Oil Execs In Top EPA Jobs, Emails Show
For Pruitt, gaining Trump’s favor — and keeping it — came through fierce allegiance