My 17th Pruitt roundup (new stuff just since 6/5)

It’s been a busy week in Pruitt world.  I don’t ever remember a cabinet member who has done so many shady (and possibly illegal) things.

This week, we had the attempt to get a Chick-Fil-A franchise, eating lunch too often in the White House mess and using his staff to try to find lotion, snacks, and a used mattress from the Trump hotel.  Two of his top aides are leaving.

Democrats want him to be investigated for potential criminal conduct.

Even some Republicans are unhappy with his behavior but aren’t pushing for his resignation.

This article ranks all of his abuses of power.  Here’s another guide:

Pruitt had aides fetch protein bars and yogurt

Pruitt used his security guards to pick up dry cleaning and take him to search for a specific moisturizing lotion.

A major Trump donor helped Pruitt pick EPA science advisors

Evangelicals and Pruitt

Majority of Americans do not think NFL players kneeling is unpatriotic

A new poll shows that the majority of Americans do not think kneeling during the anthem is inherently unpatriotic.

The poll shows that “Republican voters say 70 – 23 percent that these NFL players are unpatriotic.”

Those are the only voters Trump cares about.  He has no interest in being president of the entire country.   He has lied about the reason for the protest to rile up his base.

Sad!

Latest NBC/WSJ poll

links and tweets on the poll

Trump’s popularity has increased

Democrats have a 10% point edge in the generic congress question

The complete poll

 

 

 

More great tweets from Florida Man

 

 

Trump’s made-up story that people in Houston watched the hurricane on boats

This is just more nonsense.  Is he lying or just ignorant?  He’s making stuff up.

He’s done this before.  The article reminds us: “This isn’t the first time the president has made comments that seemed bizarre or ill-informed. For example, he claimed without evidence millions of people voted illegally and inflated the number of people attending his inauguration and other rallies. He wrongly claimed to have seen Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks on television.”

AP Fact Check

Sad!

A great idea for a law

 

The Trump campaign should have report the Russian offer for dirt on Clinton to the FBI.

Trump is in no position to talk

Trump has attacked journalists for speculations about Melania Trump. He has lumped legitimate questions from the media in with tweets from the public

The article states: “By attacking journalists who have speculated or asked questions about his wife, the president put himself at odds with his own personal history of using his platform — and a number of his supporters — to target women and effectively amplify rumors about their health, appearance and personal relationships.”

Trump is in no position to talk:

  • During the 2016 campaign, he questioned Hillary Clinton’s health
  • He said Mike Brzezinksi had been bleeding from a face-lift and had a low I.Q.

Sad!

 

Charitable giving is declining

update 11/24/18

 

Black defendants get longer sentences from Republican appointed judges

This article discusses a study based on over one half a million defendants.  The Republican appointed judges also give shorter sentences to women.

The study states: “The racial gap by political affiliation is three months, approximately 65 percent of the baseline racial sentence gap,” the authors wrote. “We also find that Republican-appointed judges give female defendants two months less in prison than similar male defendants compared to Democratic-appointed judges, 17 percent of the baseline gender sentence gap.”

This problem will only get worse as Trump has filled many judicial vacancies.

This article includes this quote: ““Trump’s judicial nominees in particular are demonstrating what we see as a breathtaking hostility toward equal rights,” said Todd Cox, director of policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.”