Oh cāmon. OF COURSE, he did. And now, to save his butt he LIED about it and blamed some āstafferā. Itās what they DO. Itās a wife, or a secretary or a staffer but NEVER them. They really are bottom feeders.
Has Tony Perkins said anything yet?
These guys REALLY, REALLY SUCK at being competent bad guys. If anyone with a moral bone in their bodies controlled congress this would have been over with SOOO long ago.
Thereās an oleaginous feel about those 2 staffers that has nothing to do with the drilling or fracking industries.
Pruitt - āWell of course I approved it. When I said I just found out yesterday that they got it I meant the money. I had assumed the raises were still being processed in the payroll department. See the difference.ā
ā¦ senior political appointees at the EPA ā¦ joked that Trumpās infamous line that he could āstand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someoneā now applied to Pruitt.
Well, if Chiselinā Trump stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot Pruitt, I, for one, would not care.
āI did not know that they got the pay raises until yesterday,ā Pruitt said
OK
He submitted the requests for a pay raise some time ago - he must be referring to how slowly bureaucracy work & how he really had no idea when they were going to actually be processed and actually be reflected in their paychecks
Yes, Iām sure that is what he was trying to say ā¦ I mean ā¦ he would not just flat out lie ā¦ would he?
had the same thought!
Have you seen the bit, not entirely unconnected, about the complete lack of reported threats to Pruitt? For all we know there have been, but he was just too busy passing out money to his friends to run an office properly.
After Pruitt goes, will it reflect on Trump in any way? How many bad decisions about personnel, alone, does it take to see that Trump is unqualified as an executive? Forget the other skills necessary to be president, business acumen that Trump touts includes being able to hire the right people. And firing people when they donāt fit. Trump is doing neither. The parallels with Nixon are really beginning to add up.
Cronyism doesnāt need any business acumen.
I was going to say if one shot the other no one would care needs to be tested.
Every Republican official at every level is grabbing as much cash from the carnival prize booth as they can before time expires.
Hereās the thing - even if Pruitt (and these aides) go, how much unethical or illegal money did they snatch while they were there? Did Pruittās stock portfolio profit from companies with business before the EPA? And those aides - unless theyāre required to pay back the money theyāve already received, they just go back to their shady former jobs in Oklahoma with a bit more jingle jangle in their pockets.
How long before the EPA Senior Counsel releases a statement saying that she had been told that Pruitt approved it, but she has now been informed that this information was in error?
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
No really, there are people out there just giving 50K raises behind the bossesā backā¦
Whoa whoa whoa whoooooaaaa! Are you suggesting Pruitt is a liar? He may be a cheat, a coward, a sycophant who will use any and all means at his disposal to get what he wantsā¦but lying? How do you expect anyone to believe such claims?
He is an idiot AND a liar! An idiot liar! I pray this lying weasel gets Fired!