The lying mediots and terminally malignant Never Trumpsters, have so much fake news, they need a fake news stand to peddle it.
Posted on 02/06/2017 12:47:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, appears to have made a false statement under oath to the Senate.
This was first reported Monday by Fusion's Daniel Rivero. Business Insider was later able to confirm the underlying facts of Rivero's article.
Pruitt — the attorney general of Oklahoma known for 14 lawsuits designed to fight regulations and cleanup efforts by the agency he hopes to lead — made the apparent false statement when referring to an ongoing environmental lawsuit involving several poultry companies in Arkansas.
Pruitt's predecessor, Drew Edmondson, brought the case against Tyson Foods, Cargill Turkey, and 12 other poultry companies. Edmondson accused them of dumping 300,000 tons of poultry waste (read: bird poop) a year into the Illinois River upstream of Oklahoma.
The case, brought before a federal judge, was fought entirely before Pruitt took office in 2011. The judge, however, has yet to issue a ruling years later.
During Pruitt's campaign to become state attorney general, he received $40,000 in donations from those companies and law firms representing them, according to The New York Times. Once in office, he took an apparently less aggressive approach to pursuing the case than his predecessor.
In response to questions from Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey during his confirmation hearing, Pruitt said: "I have taken no action to undermine that case. I have done nothing but file briefs in support of the court making a decision."
Rivero and his team at Fusion found no evidence that Pruitt or his office had filed any briefs in support of making a decision with the case, apparently contradicting his claim under oath to the Senate.
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Fake news.
“Apparent” “Apparently”
Hmmmmm.
Oh puleeeze the guy simply knows his office submitted anything they had to, and he said all we’ve done is submit briefs not undermine the case. Hardly the stuff of perjury.
You are a regular fake news outlet.
What the Hell would we do without you.
Virtually everything published by Business Insider is a false statement.
IF his office deliberately didn’t file a needed brief to undermine the case, that might be the opposite of his statement, but merely being mistaken that any briefs were filed is just that a mistaken choice of words. In effect, he was saying he didn’t undermine the case and his office cooperated and submitted whatever was necessary.
“appears to have made a false statement under oath to the Senate.”
This isn’t fake news, from these clowns, it’s news about something that didn’t happen.
This is about news that never happened and will not happen. It exists only in the rabid anti Trump mind of the so called reporter/journalist/mediot. So, it doesn’t even qualify as fake news!
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I have a new tagline when I reply to a post about news that never happened nor will happen. It doesn’t even qualify as fake news!
Yep, the fake news industry just keeps on rolling.
All I can say is, the media is killing themselves and the RAT party, which I love to see...are there going to be any RATS left after 2018??? I hope not!!!
Even if it is FAKE NEWS, just call him Hillary. She got away with everything so far in the lying category.
When it took me 4 minutes to scour the top three paragraphs and still not discover what it was he allegedly made a false statement about, it sent up a lot of red flags.
Liberal: “Sir, what time is it?”
Republican: (looks at watch) “930AM, sir”
Liberal: “LIAR! The clock on the wall says 929AM! This is an outrage! Your sworn testimony will be forwarded to the prosecutor!”
The lying mediots and terminally malignant Never Trumpsters, have so much fake news, they need a fake news stand to peddle it.
Wow, are they ever pulling at straws. It is just more despicable, desperate Democrat drivel.
Edmondson was had opened a can of worms that a smart Arkansas AG could have closed. He/she should have gotten samples taken of the Arkansas River where it flows into OK from KS, then above and below the city of Tulsa (especially after a big spring rain event), then again at the OK/AR border, then countersued OK for polluting the ARKANSAS river.
I can't understand why anyone would bother reading them.
The nominee is usually afforded the courtesy of correcting a mistake during testimony. This is not a huge deal.
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