B-b-b-but it’s vitally important to NATIONAL SECURITY that EPA employees never convince Scott Pruitt that global warming is real. He must be protected from the truth 24/7! It’ll be the end of America and the Trump Administration if reason breaks out.
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Betsy DeVos wants a security detail too. Couldn’t she hire her brother Erik Prince’s goon squad?
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Welcome to Fascism.
Or the part where the people who spent the entire Obama administration egging on acts of violence see call aggrieved constituents haters?
Conservative is Hypocrisy’s christian name.
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Isn’t this the guy that is being investigated for possible inider trading? Might as well get used to having armed guards around him, maybe he shoud learn to tap out morse code too so he can communicate with a few of the Trump admin cell mates he’s likely to have.
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“…additional security agents could help protect Pruitt from protesters and his department’s own employees.”
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She will, but she wants American taxpayers to pay for it - like the way we pay for Trump to stay at his own hotels.
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No, that’s Tom Price, head of HHS. Unless both of them are being investigated for insider trading and I don’t know it, which is very possible I suppose. I mean, it’s hard to believe only one member of the Trump Error is breaking finance and security laws.
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Putting Mr. Pruitt’s entertaining and unmanly fear aside, it is not in the financial interests of the United States to indulge the unsubstantiated paranoia of a public servant of his standing.
Should Mr. Pruitt’s fantasies actually result in an attack, and should he survive, then at that point we should have a discussion about getting him a mall cop; dog or something.
Let his corporate masters pay for the ‘protection’ of this newly minted ‘snowflake’.
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So “The Left” is a threat to his safety? Hogwash! He’s threatening the country and the planet. So they want to cut 30% of the workforce that does yeoman’s work on the behalf of the American people regarding our environment, but, add security personnel for his safety?..Misplaced priorities!
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Amazing. These guys so love to play fake tough guys, but inevitably find a way to prove they are afraid of their own shadow. After years of heavily armed right wingers portraying the EPA as roughly the gates of hell filled with demons, pansy Pruitt thinks he needs to be the first with around the clock security?
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You know how violent those lifetime environmental bureaucrats are. Courage, Mr. Pruitt. Courage.
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That said, are there legitimate, documented threats - substantiated? Or is this just another snowflake on the Right?
Inquiring minds would like to see the evidence.
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Does he think this is 1968?
“The Left” hasn’t been a threat to anyone’s safety since about the mid 70s.
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I doubt it’s just EPA employees he’s afraid of, I can think of a few hundred million citizens that might like a piece of that action.
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These guys always project their violence onto others.
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Myron Ebell, who led President Donald Trump’s EPA transition team, told E&E News in February that the additional security agents could help protect Pruitt from protesters and his department’s own employees.
As a taxpayer, I have no interest in paying to have Pruitt protected from his own employees. I’m sure it will all work out.
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This movie is called “A Few Bad Men.” And none of them can handle the truth, so they just flat out deny it.
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Bingo! I want a GAO cost-benefit analysis of this expenditure and a professional, quantifiable Risk Assessment that this is even remotely necessary.
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I sure agree with that. Why would we pay for protection for this asshole from his own employees? That makes no sense. If he needs protecting from employees of the agency he is running, supposedly, then somebody needs to figure out why.
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Seems to me that Pruitt is the hostile one. He hates the department he’s supposedly in charge of.
Who wants to work for a failure?
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