EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt habitually sends out EPA employees to fetch him protein bars, Greek yogurt, cookies, and pour-over coffee, according to a Friday Daily Beast report.
Pruitt reportedly insists on luxury market Dean and DeLuca for his snacks and pour-over coffee rather than that brewed by any other method.
Some unnamed sources told the Daily Beast that the peckish administrator’s demands come “constantly,” while others said they are issued “frequently.”
An EPA spokesperson declined to directly comment on the story. “EPA will not be commenting on anonymous sources who are working to distract Americans from Administrator Pruitt’s accomplishments on regulatory certainty and environmental stewardship,” a spokesperson told the Daily Beast.
The Dean and DeLuca debacle is only the sixth scandal to surface about or in close proximity to Pruitt this week.
In recent days, Pruitt has been accused using his security detail to fetch him lotion and his dry cleaning, 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.”
Clearly, Trump likes his style - as he keep praising, and keeps him around.
It most certainly has nothing to do with wanting to have Pruitt in the wings to slide into Sessions’ seat the moment he (Trump) finds a way to get rid of him without excessive blow back or finally humiliates Sessions’ enough for sessions to resign. No, that wouldn’t be a reason to keep the ‘pigsty’ of cabinet scandals around.
Hmmm…We should check his coffee boys. They must be the ones at the core of this Russian problem.
I’m sure there’s extra money somewhere in the EPA budget so you can hire someone to wipe your ass, too, Scotty. File it under “toxic waste cleanup”.
Oh, and OT but oh-so-delightful, and somewhat related since we are talking about GOP assholes, after all:
“EPA will not be commenting on anonymous sources who are working to distract Americans from Administrator Pruitt’s accomplishments on regulatory certainty and environmental stewardship,”
“And any disparaging remarks about members of the Politburo will result in a fast trip to the Gulag”
Seriously: Fearless leader is not to be questioned ! All hail the brilliant and Omnipotent fearless leader.
His narcissism makes Trump look like a piker
This is a conservative male from Oklahoma, right? Because the cowboys and oilmen and such never seemed quite so, shall we say, fussy about things.