Pruitt had travel wishlist and asked staff to find ‘official’ reasons to go: report
I know where his next official destination should be.
it’s funny how the gop/trump’s agenda can only be implemented by crooks and wackos. In any real world vetting, this ass would never be in his position. The graft and kiss up to lobbyists and near illegal to illegal behavior would get this guy run out of town on a railroad. and yet in the modern gop’r party he is just a run of the mill crook carrying out the destruction of the planet at the behest of anti-science religious moneyed wack jobs.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, when he joined the EPA, drew up a list of his preferred travel destinations and told his staff to find official reasons for him to travel to those countries, according to The Washington Post.
Four EPA officials familiar with Pruitt's travel arrangements tell the newspaper that Pruitt created the list shortly after taking office last year and directed aides to plan official visits to countries on the list while finding official EPA business to rationalize the travel.
In some cases, those trips were planned for months with the help of influential Washington, D.C., lobbyists, the Post reports, raising further questions about Pruitt's use of taxpayer funds and proximity to lobbyists who may have business before the agency.
In the case of one cancelled trip to Israel, the trip was reportedly organized by Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson. Two Democratic senators sent a letter on Thursday to Pruitt demanding information about “the role Mr. Adelson or other non-governmental officials played" in planning that trip, the Post said.
Pruitt would later meet with executives from an Israel-based water purification company in Washington, a meeting that occurred “as a request of Sheldon Adelson," according to an official note in Pruitt's calendar.