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FOX NEWS: Scott Pruitt resigns as EPA chief, Trump announces
Fox News ^ | 07/05/2018

Posted on 07/05/2018 1:05:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Scott Pruitt has resigned as head of the Environmental Protection Agency after a string of controversies involving his leadership, President Trump announced Thursday on Twitter.

"Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this," tweeted Trump, who added that EPA Deputy Administrator Andrew Wheeler would take over as acting administrator effective Monday.

...on Monday assume duties as the acting Administrator of the EPA. I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda. We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2018 "I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda," Trump concluded. "We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!"

In his resignation letter to Trump, Pruitt said: "It is extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role first because I count it a blessing to be serving you in any capacity, but also, because of the transformative work that is occurring.

"However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally [and] my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us," Pruitt added.

Pruitt resigned less than a week after The New York Times reported that the EPA's chief ethics official, Kevin Minoli, had been pushing for a series of independent investigation into several aspects of Pruitt's tenure. Those include Pruitt's rental of a Washington D.C. condominium from a lobbyist's spouse and his alleged use of staff to handle personal matters.

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To: sparklite2

make a statement like

Pruitt is a grifter, corruptable and contemptous of the taxpayer’s money he so gleefully wastes. Good riddance.

explain your reason why otherwise it is just a statement of attack and should be just ignored. what is your reasoning’

the way I understand it he was placed in the EPA to tame it and remove bureaucratic regulation that has been used by the left to hamstring smaller businesses in the area of competition.

you implied corruption/ Did he take a bribe, did he steal from the fedral government.


21 posted on 07/05/2018 1:27:51 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: sparklite2

please disregaurd my last post I made the mistake o not fully reading the article posted . I apologize sparklite2


22 posted on 07/05/2018 1:30:22 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: PCPOET7

Well, I have read that Pruitt drew controversy in the late summer and fall of 2017 over his use of taxpayer funds.

Unlike his predecessors, Pruitt has, as EPA head, regularly flown first or business class on commercial airlines, as well as chartered private jets and military planes at exorbitant costs.

The cost of Pruitt’s seats on those flights are often several times higher than the seats for his accompanying staffers.

In September 2017, it was revealed that Pruitt had used at least $58,000 worth of noncommercial charter flights and military flights during his tenure, and when traveling on commercial airlines had opted for business or first class when those seats were available.

Pruitt’s aides had researched leasing a private jet on a monthly basis for Pruitt’s travel. The estimated cost of this would have been approximately $100,000 per month.

The aides evaluated such expenditures prior to the outbreak of a similar scandal regarding exorbitant travel costs by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, which later led to Price’s resignation.


23 posted on 07/05/2018 1:33:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

After I’m finished at the EPA, the only thing they will have to do is scoop cat sh!t out of sand boxes.


24 posted on 07/05/2018 1:35:52 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: sparklite2

40% of all EPA regs that were crippling businesses and farmers have been repealed, hundreds of EcoNazi extremists have left rather than work for Pruitt. The relaxing of regs is a big part of the current economic boom. Compared to that I don’t care about limos, plane rides and hotel rooms. You don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.


25 posted on 07/05/2018 1:38:50 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not good. Pruitt was one of the genuine conservatives and anti-swampies. The left is going to count this as another scalp and go after the next real conservative. This is one of the ways the Swamp is fighting back.


26 posted on 07/05/2018 1:40:19 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: PCPOET7

Thanks.


27 posted on 07/05/2018 1:40:55 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: gaijin

He left the EPA better than he found it.


28 posted on 07/05/2018 1:41:33 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Hugin

Surely we can find someone willing to do the job of dismantling the EPA without being a dishonest, taxpayer money-grubbing lying sleaze ball.


29 posted on 07/05/2018 1:43:35 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

Big mistake!

Got nabbed by leftist’s Saul Alinsky’s Rules from Rules for Radicals

Rule number 4

4. “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”

Appropriate response:

No response...just keep going...

Stop playing into leftist hands.


30 posted on 07/05/2018 1:44:42 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Big mistake!

Got nabbed by leftist’s Saul Alinsky’s Rules from Rules for Radicals

Rule number 4

4. “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”

Appropriate response:

No response...just keep going...

Stop playing into leftist hands.


31 posted on 07/05/2018 1:45:38 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Chickensoup

32 posted on 07/05/2018 1:46:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Chickensoup

Stop portraying misuse of taxpayer money as something to be overlooked.


33 posted on 07/05/2018 1:47:37 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pruitt was the only consequential Conservative in the Trump Administration.


34 posted on 07/05/2018 1:47:48 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: sparklite2

Whatever, I know the Sierra Club is partying today.


35 posted on 07/05/2018 1:47:54 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: sparklite2

The misuse of money by the EPA is my biggest concern. I could care less about his perks.


36 posted on 07/05/2018 1:48:59 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: sparklite2

You have no idea of what is real in these attacks.

Conservatives just roll over.


37 posted on 07/05/2018 1:49:55 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind

damned He rolled over.

Are there any real men out there besides Trump??


38 posted on 07/05/2018 1:50:43 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Crazies will now increase their attacks 2000% on everyone in the Trump Admin


39 posted on 07/05/2018 1:51:19 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Hugin

Really? What makes you thing the person Trump replaces Pruitt with will necessarily gladden the hearts of the eco-nazis? Have you no faith the Trump’s selection process?


40 posted on 07/05/2018 1:51:25 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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