I don’t see how Pruitt lasts a day, but I want him and his supporters including Steve Hart, to launch a major counter offensive. Let’s make sure Scott Pruitt becomes the poster child for Republican K Street corruption.
But of course he’d say that, wouldn’t he?
Oh, yeah, and on the rental contract Steve Hart’s name was manually changed to his wife’s. Wonder why? Couldn’t be guilty conscience, could it?? Or perhaps the hope that her name didn’t ring any bells??
Plenty of due influence, but no undue… Got it.
Yes Trump has made lying an American pastime
The truth really has no place anymore .
That the cesspool of corruption named Lake Pruitt is still employed proves this administration is beyond corrupt.
The Republican congress just tolerates it
Traitors
Each and every one of them
He later added “I’m really, really sorry…that I got caught.”
So the head of the EPA, who was staying at Chez Lobbyist for peanuts, flew to Morocco via Paris with his entourage, to lobby Moroccans about LNG, when the owners of Chez Lobbyist lobbied for sole US LNG exporter Cheniere Energy, but there was no undue influence.
Yeah, ok, totally cool, makes sense…
…in bizarro opposite swamp not draining but filling world
Not so much added as he repeated, but yeah.
I take this matter very seriously and I regret that recent news reports could have created even a mere appearance that could call into question that forty year commitment
That Rachel Maddow story was just mind boggling
Corruption,grifting and graft taken to a new level.
and yet crickets from congress who is willing to open an investigation every time Hillary farts
(Was it a classified fart???)
Treacherous times indeed .
Hello Democrats … anybody home ???
We need some Anthony Weiner level rants about this to break through the rest of the Trumps shitstorm that distracts from this every day
Edit - for those who missed it - Must see as it also ties in Mega grifter Icann
Even if Pruitt wasn’t out to ruin 50 years of progress on environmental protections - actions that will kill thousands of people and make tens or hundreds of thousand sick, as well as damage property - I’d still want him out for all of his corrupt actions.
And, as for Lobbyist Hart … you’re a fucking lobbyist. Your job is to influence decision-makers who can help your client. So, in a way, you did your job with this rent deal. That pipeline was approved for your client. Pruitt and an entourage from EPA, including the now-resigned Ms. Dravis who perhaps wasn’t even showing up at the EPA to work for several months, went to Morocco via Paris on the taxpayer dime to lobby the government to buy more liquefied natural gas from the U.S. - which would have benefited your client. And, the EPA isn’t even supposed to be involved in that kind of dealing with foreign governments. You can probably add to your client list and raise your fees.
Fuck 'em both.
ETA: Started this post. Went to get coffee. Finish the post. Then see @atldrew and @sickneffintired were already on this.
Still …fuck Pruitt and Hart.
OT (but only partly so, because we’re talking about corruption, deception and lying).
Apparently George Nader has fingered Erik Prince in perjury, saying that Prince’s meeting in the Seychelles with Kirill Dimitriev, a Russian buddy of Pootie’s, was not just a “coincidence” as Prince testified to the House Inteliigence Committee but was in fact arranged by Nader (one of several, apparently).
Mueller apparently has evidence supporting this – perhaps docs off Nader’s laptop, confiscated at Dulles…?
I would soooooooooooooo love to see Erik Prince go down. My little daydream has him being sent to Gitmo.
Thank you, but I am not interested in having sex with either of them
I would settle for a conviction on corruption and graft and a LOCK THEM UP
Mueller?..Mueller?..Mueller?
My soul cannot rest until the Amway family of shysters, hucksters and treansonweasels is given a galactic dose of karma for their shenanigans, treasonweaseling and all 'round bad caddying.
I’m alright, nobody worry 'bout me…
Unlike ordinary criminals, the Trump gang will also insult your intelligence while they steal your possessions and burn down your house.
I’m with you.
there’s a song in there waiting to bust out and break free.
Pruitt needs to get fired and then he and Williams & Jensen (ethical stalwarts that they are) need to hear the snap of the latex glove as they bend over for a well deserved probing of their activities.
Just ignore that loud rumble, it’s just your clients headed for the door.
Holy shit. Not even worried enough about follow up to bother reprinting the page. Just … wow.
I agree completely. The more they protest, the more they are exposed. Piss-poor crisis management, but lobbyists don’t usually need crisis managers in their sleazy dealings. Lobbyists know very well that any contact with decision-makers can influence their decisions. It’s human nature. That’s why we need to vote for people who will not meet with lobbyists except in public forums, as one example of letting interest groups state their case, but not rent them rooms at ridiculously low prices.