Scott Pruitt’s unending list of corrupt activities is … unending. So unending that it’s been difficult to keep the stories from overlapping. There’s ...
And that’s just Monday and Tuesday of this week.
So how is Pruitt’s staff working to protect the boss? They could try doing something good. Or at least, being less overtly evil and corrupt. But … that’s difficult. So Pruitt’s staff decided to plant a story about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
As Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces a seemingly endless stream of scandal, his team is scrambling to divert the spotlight to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. And the White House isn’t happy about it.
In the last week, a member of Pruitt’s press team, Michael Abboud, has been shopping negative stories about Zinke to multiple outlets, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the efforts, as well as correspondence reviewed by The Atlantic.
There’s nothing like the teamwork and unity generated when a cabinet is built based on their ability to lick boots and ignore facts. And, as the story reported in the Atlantic, that’s exactly what Trump has.
The stories were shopped with the intention of “taking the heat off of Pruitt,” the sources said, in the aftermath of the EPA chief’s punishing congressional hearing last week.