Maxine Waters calls for harrassment of members of Trump administration

[EMDX6043]

What else is there besides the $600 hotel bill (yawn) that she mentioned?

This is a new story for me. I see a few more articles about Chick-fil-A and other allegations, but 1. has there been an admission of guilt and 2. has he been proven guilty?

'Pruitt is the swamp': Laura Ingraham calls for EPA chief's ouster amid reports - Business Insider

You'd have to be a moron not to see how bad this guy is.

 

[Kutnupe14]

What else is there besides the $600 hotel bill (yawn) that she mentioned?

This is a new story for me. I see a few more articles about Chick-fil-A and other allegations, but 1. has there been an admission of guilt and 2. has he been proven guilty?

• Bypassing the White House to give “substantial raises” to aides who are loyal to him, while reshuffling EPA employees who dared criticize his actions
• Requesting $70,000 to replace two desks in his office, including an upgraded bulletproof desk at a security station outside of his office
• Requesting a bulletproof SUV “with so-called run flat tires, which keep a vehicle moving even when sustaining gunfire,” according to the Times
• Pulling 18 EPA agents out of the field to be Pruitt’s round-the-clock security detail, at a cost of roughly $2 million a year. (No previous EPA administrator has ever received such protection.)
• Installing a $43,000 soundproof phone booth in his office
• Directing his drivers to use lights and sirens for routine trips around Washington, “including at least one trip to Le Diplomate, a trendy French restaurant that he frequented.”
• Reassigning the lead agent in his security detail after the agent told Pruitt that sirens could only be used in emergencies
• Directing aides to come up with excuses for him and his lobbyist friends to travel to countries he wanted to visit under the guise of official business
• Allowing a former Comcast lobbyist to tag along to and help plan his six-figure, taxpayer-funded trip to Morocco
• Dining with an alleged child abuser while on a taxpayer-funded trip to Rome
• Signing off on $3,200 worth of stationery items, including 12 silver fountain pens, from a high-end Washington jeweler as “gifts to the Administrator’s foreign counterparts and dignitaries”
• Directing an aide to procure a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel in Washington
• Directing an aide to reach out in an effort to get his wife her own Chick-fil-A franchise
• When that failed, directing his aides to shake down Republican donors to find his wife a job
• Getting his daughter a White House internship
• Ordering his aides to run around town in search of fancy lotion from the Ritz Carlton
• Ordering aides to get him upscale snacks from Dean and Deluca and make pour-over coffee for him
• Ordering a top aide to search for housing for him “on personal time”
• Ordering aides to book his travel to the Rose Bowl, and securing ticketsfrom a University of Oklahoma regent with ties to the oil industry
• Attending a University of Kentucky basketball game, and sitting in the personal seats of a billionaire coal executive Joseph Craft III. Craft and his wife donated more than $2 million to Trump’s presidential campaign, after which Trump named Craft’s wife ambassador to Canada.

Some by themselves aren't that bad, but when taken collectively, as a body.... not a very good look.

 

[KLB]

Some by themselves aren't that bad, but when taken collectively, as a body.... not a very good look.

Some are not good. Some are downright stupid.

 

[EMDX6043]

Some of those are pretty comical, and also questionable.

Seems like a typical bureaucrat that needs his wings clipped...has he been called to answer for any of this behavior? I honestly haven't followed any of this yet, only heard the grumblings.

The thing about the EPA (and associated Agencies?) is that they have developed a history of overstepping their bounds, judging from judicial activity-see Rapanos v. United States.

There has to be a balance between environmental protections and the need for human activity, but that's another topic...

 

[EMDX6043]

I just heard his resignation was accepted today...

'Pruitt is the swamp': Laura Ingraham calls for EPA chief's ouster amid reports - Business Insider

You'd have to be a moron not to see how bad this guy is.

 

[ghitch75]

Black leaders express 'profound indignation' over Dem leaders' failure to 'protect' Maxine Waters | Fox News

 

[ghitch75]

she is very very dangerous....

 

[BugI02]

'Pruitt is the swamp': Laura Ingraham calls for EPA chief's ouster amid reports - Business Insider

You'd have to be a moron not to see how bad this guy is.

Exactly how we felt about Holder. But you saw how bad he was, right?

 

[Kutnupe14]

I just heard his resignation was accepted today...

Yep, his circus sideshow was becoming to large a distraction.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Exactly how we felt about Holder. But you saw how bad he was, right?

You get an exception post!

Yes, holder was bad... his refusals, and the the way he generally ran the DoJ was less than to be desired. However he was in the business of supporting/protecting his administration (which I must point out to you is what Trump also thinks the head of the DoJ should do). That's fast out wrongs and dangerous to the workings of trustworthy govt. He however, was not abusing his office for personal gain. Two different types of monsters, equally bad.

 

[ghitch75]

at least Pruitt didn't get anyone killed.....

 

[BugI02]

You get an exception post!

Yes, holder was bad... his refusals, and the the way he generally ran the DoJ was less than to be desired. However he was in the business of supporting/protecting his administration (which I must point out to you is what Trump also thinks the head of the DoJ should do). That's fast out wrongs and dangerous to the workings of trustworthy govt. He however, was not abusing his office for personal gain. Two different types of monsters, equally bad.

D'Accord. I am surprised that Pruitt didn't have a background in high corporate office. The desire to be treated like a Brahman would have been no less distasteful but perhaps more understandable

Ingraham was right, he belonged to the Swamp