EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt never stops being Scott Pruitt. Like a comic whose one shtick is corruption, Pruitt can’t help lying to Congress, providing patronage to his friends, putting his palm out to lobbyists, living the high life on the government dime, quivering in fear that someone might draw a mustache on his picture and … more lying to Congress.
While almost all of what Pruitt has done to harm the environment is extremely serious, so much so that remedying his actions will take years (and a committed Democratic administration) if it is possible at all, some of his actions are so over there top that they’re simply ludicrous.
So in the spirit of: Scott Pruitt orders his chief of security to use emergency sirens and lights because he’s late to a meeting, and Scott Pruitt uses a military jet just to get him to the airport to take a first class flight, we now present—Scott Pruitt visits a coal mine.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt used a Black Hawk helicopter over the summer to visit an Indiana coal mine last year, according to newly released EPA records highlighted by The New Republic.
Pruitt flew with aides and staffers for Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) in the tactical transport helicopter to Booneville, Indiana's Liberty coal mine last August, according to the report.
Booneville, Indiana happens to be less than a 15-minute drive from Evansville, where there is a large airport. But Pruitt didn’t let that stop him from making his appearance Ride of the Valkyries style, having appropriated a National Guard helicopter to save him five minutes? Maybe ten?
Because he’s Scott Pruitt, dammit. And if you don’t like it … he’ll just lie about it.