Trump's scandal-plagued EPA chief Scott Pruitt is back
WASHINGTON — It helps to have the endorsement of former President Donald Trump when running for the U.S. Senate in deep red Oklahoma. Accordingly, the website for Senate candidate Scott Pruitt features what seems like a certified blessing: “He’ll go and do great things,” it quotes Trump as saying.
What the website doesn’t say is that Trump uttered those words as Pruitt was forced out by the White House from his position as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, a scandal-plagued tenure that eventually became an embarrassment to Trumpian and establishment Republicans alike.
As scandals piled up for Pruitt in the spring and summer of 2018, Trump stood by the former Oklahoma attorney general who had been recommended for the EPA position by the energy industry. But after attacks on Pruitt by Fox News primetime anchor Laura Ingraham, Trump dropped his support and forced Pruitt to resign.
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Now, Pruitt is back — or at least hopes to be. He has recently worked as a coal lobbyist in Indiana, but with James Inhofe, the senior senator from Oklahoma, on the cusp of retirement, the perennially ambitious Pruitt would like to make his way back to Washington.
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