Posted on 04/05/2018 7:54:08 PM PDT by Magnatron
President Donald Trump floated replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Scott Pruitt as recently as this week, even as the scandal-ridden head of the Environmental Protection Agency has faced a growing list of negative headlines, according to people close to the President.
"He was 100% still trying to protect Pruitt because Pruitt is his fill-in for Sessions," one source familiar with Trump's thinking told CNN. Though the President has, at times, floated several people a day for multiple positions in his administration that are already occupied, the proposition reveals just how frustrated Trump remains with Sessions because of his decision to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation more than a year ago, while signaling how confident he has remained in Pruitt despite a dizzying number of ethics issues
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I should keep my mouth shut.
...according to people close to the President...
Could be the cleaning lady.
Head fake. Idiots at CNN took it. That, or made up the story.
The hook is coming for that POS, goober magoo. I’d give it 2 weeks.
Fakenews
Wow! the bias that just drips from this is mind boggling. cnn has jumped the shark big time.
.... Used to love watching him on Carson, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas ....
:: rolls eyes ::
“The hook is coming for that POS”
I sure hope so. I think it’s crucial for Trump’s survival. The sudden appearance of the nothingburger scandals around Pruitt makes me think the story might be story might be true if so mission accomplished l don’t see Trump replacing Sessions with Pruitt while with these stories swirling. We’ll Be lucky to keep Pruitt at the EPA. You can bet the stories came from Rosensweasel and Sessions.
anything to get rid of Pruitt at the EPA.
4 Apr: TheLid: Media Campaign Against EPA’s Scott Pruitt Orchestrated By Obama & Clinton Cronies
by J.E. Dyer
EIP has a strong animus against coal, as you can learn from the website...
Regarding funding, prominent sources for EIP, as documented by a congressional report in 2014, are the Wallace Global Foundation and the Energy Foundation, which in turn gets much of its funding from the Sea Change Foundation set up by renewables billionaire Nat Simons, a major beneficiary of Obama’s green-energy cronyism. (And yes, both foundation sources send money to and from the Tides Foundation and others in the standard list of progressive and radical-left money sumps.)...
https://lidblog.com/media-campaign-against-scott-pruitt/
5 Apr: The Hill: Trump says he has confidence in Pruitt
By Jordan Fabian and Timothy Cama
“I think he’s done a fantastic job. I think he’s done an incredible job. He’s been very courageous,” the president told reporters. “It hasn’t been easy, but I think he’s done a fantastic job.”
“You know, I just left coal and energy country. They love Scott Pruitt,” he said, referring to Pruitt’s pro-coal policies and efforts to repeal environmental rules. “They feel very strongly about Scott Pruitt. And they love Scott Pruitt.”...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/381805-trump-says-he-has-confidence-in-pruitt
5 Apr: Daily Caller: Michael Bastasch: Cruz, Paul Defend Scott Pruitt. Say He’s Needed To ‘Drain The Regulatory Swamp’
Paul said Pruitt is needed to “drain the regulatory swamp,” while Cruz said Trump is “too cagey to be duped and bullied by the Obama groupies” regarding the Oklahoma attorney general’s fate...
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/05/cruz-paul-defend-scott-pruitt/
once again i say thank you for your wonderful service Jeff. you have all the right enemies. keep pushing AG.
The key is to just slide him over so Congress doesn’t notice.
Fixed that.
ridiculous.
Pruitt is a nutcase with delusions of grandeur.The EPA boss wanted the sirens turned on to get to work?LOL
He’s making Trump look bad-needs to be canned soon.
So thinking is a crime?
Someone call the police and tell them to come arrest me for what I am thinking right now.
That siren thing was supposedly fake
Pruitt’s doing fine right where he is...
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