After successfully getting former HHS Secretary Tom Price’s scalp over his so-called lavish travel expenses, the liberal left-wing media has now turned its microscope on EPA head Scott Pruitt.
Pruitt has confirmed he has a security detail and that it’s safer in first class after he had unsafe encounters in coach.
The Washington Post went so far as to interview Captain Sully to find out if it was safer in first class than economy if there was a crash (which isn’t why he’s in first class). Having Pruitt booted from the EPA would make enviros, activists, and the liberal media happy but President Trump is standing by his administrator, who’s actually getting a lot done. From the Daily Mail:
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt says he needs First Class airline tickets to stay safe as death threats against him mount.
Pruitt burned through $90,000, spending freely on first-class airline tickets and on military jets, during just the first few weeks of June last year.
By September, EPA assistant inspector general Patrick Sullivan was telling CNN that Pruitt had attracted 4 to 5 times the number of death threats that plagued Obama’s last EPA chief, Gina McCarthy.
‘Unfortunately … we’ve had some incidents on travel dating back to when I first started serving in the March-April timeframe,’ Pruitt told the Manchester Union-Leader on Tuesday in New Hampshire.
EPA head Scott Pruitt tweeted out several photos from his trip to Italy, including this one where he’s sampling prosciutto and other Italian meats. The Washington Post found that Pruitt and his staffers hopped a military plane to make their flight to Rome, which cost $36,068.50
We live in a very toxic environment politically, particularly around issues of the environment,’ he said.
‘We’ve reached the point where there’s not much civility in the marketplace and it’s created, you know, it’s created some issues and the [security] detail, the level of protection, is determined by the level of threat.’
Sullivan said last year that the EPA ‘is a lightning rod. We get threats from both sides of the spectrum.’
‘Some people believe the EPA is not doing enough to enforce environmental laws, and they’re upset about that. Other people think the EPA is doing too much, vis-à-vis enforcing environmental laws and they’re upset about that.’
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You can bet that the focus for the left-wing media will be the fact that the cabinet secretary flies first-class (Oh!!! What a terrible scandal!!!!), and NOT that he receives death threats from the eco-left… (Snore…)
Mr. Pruitt should wear death threats as a badge of honour . He is actually doing things and if it pisses off lobbyist’s and rent seekers well then great ! Well done .
When you take on a $trillion fraud industry hurt feelings are to be expected . Keep going Mr . Pruitt hopefully your peer group is working as hard as the EPA team .
President Trump is absolutely right. This is the last chance to save the USA from an increasingly dysfunctional Washington .
The USA was truly great when common goals and respect for legal voters existed .
The Greens only want the EPA and Dept of the Interior and Energy run by the remembers of Greenpeace,League of Concervation Voters,Sierra Club NRDC and EDF like it was under Clinton and Babbling(Bruce) Babbit