Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) lambasted EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on CNN Thursday morning, saying that the Trump official is “acting like a moron.”
“The things that Scott Pruitt is alleged to have done, they continue, the hits just keep coming,” Kennedy told CNN’s John Berman. “I think he’s hurting the President and therefore he’s hurting the country.
“He’s acting like a moron and he needs to stop it,” he continued. “It’s not personal, but he needs to stop misbehaving in this way.”
Just this week, Pruitt has been accused of using an EPA aide to try to meet with the CEO of Chick-Fil-A to set up a franchise for his wife to run, has reportedly been asked to lay off eating at the White House mess after racking up a $400 bill in one month, and sent an aide to obtain a used mattress from a Trump hotel. A top Pruitt aide also quit this week, prompting an EPA spokesperson to call the reporter who broke the story “a piece of trash.”
Watch below:
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) June 7, 2018
He may act like a moron and look like a moron, but don’t let that fool you, he really is a moron.
No, he is acting like self-entitled grifter…
de Vos is the actual moron…
Kennedy told CNN’s John Berman. “I think he’s hurting the President and therefore he’s hurting the country.
I object! Is that a fact that’s in evidence (or whatever the legal phrase is)?
There was one Republican senator who voted against Pruitt’s confirmation last year.
It was not Kennedy.
I hate Kennedy’s politics, but as Rs go, he’s more willing to speak the truth than most. And he can be pretty funny sometimes.