Trump E.P.A. Chief 'Endangered Public Safety' by Ordering His Drivers to Speed

[Nevilledog]

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Eric Lipton
@EricLiptonNYT
NEW: Trump E.P.A. Chief ‘Endangered Public Safety’ by Ordering His Drivers to Speed, a long-delayed internal investigation confirms. This includes driving in the wrong direction on a road, with Pruitt in car, lights/sirens going, to pick up dry cleaning.
Scott Pruitt, who resigned as the E.P.A. administrator in 2018, is now running for the U.S. Senate in Oklahoma.
nytimes.com

Trump E.P.A. Chief ‘Endangered Public Safety’ by Ordering His Drivers to Speed
An internal report validated whistle-blower allegations that Scott Pruitt repeatedly forced his security detail to drive at dangerous speeds on routine trips because he was running late.
3:11 PM · May 26, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-report.html

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WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, while in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration, repeatedly pressured his federal security officers to drive at excessive and sometimes dangerous speeds on routine trips, with sirens and emergency lights on, because he had a habit of running late, according to a federal report released on Thursday.

The security officers said they knew this was a violation of federal policies and “endangered public safety,” the report said. Among the incidents cited in the report was a 2017 trip in which a special agent drove Mr. Pruitt with the lights and sirens going, in the wrong direction into oncoming traffic, to pick up Mr. Pruitt’s dry cleaning, when Mr. Pruitt was late for an agency meeting.

“Can you guys use that magic button to get us through traffic?” Mr. Pruitt would ask members of his security detail, the report said. He would say “speed it up” or “we need to get there quicker,” orders that the security agents said they found “hard to disobey,” even though the lights and sirens were supposed to be used only in emergencies, it said.

Reports about this improper use of lights and sirens first became public in 2018, along with other assertions of wrongdoing by Mr. Pruitt, including first-class travel back to his home in Oklahoma on government-paid flights and improper use of government funds to build a $43,000 soundproof phone booth inside his office. They ultimately led to his resignation in July 2018.

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[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. No pay wall info on this scum.

Napoleonic complex indeed, with that pride in his flagrantly shirking his duties. He suffers like so many do from Libertarian Dysfunctional Disease - LDD

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/scott-pruitt-brags-about-media-attacks-on-his-corruption.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pruitt?wprov=sfla1

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. His boss is an asshole so he felt he had to be likewise

[RussBLib]

3. the best people

justice must be done. It seems like every last one of Trump's people are/were scumbags.