Trump EPA pick Scott Pruitt may have made a false statement under oath to the Senate

[aggiesal]

Source: Yahoo Finance

Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, may have made a false statement under oath to the Senate.

This was first reported Monday by Fusion's Daniel Rivero. Business Insider was later able to confirm the underlying facts of Rivero's article.

Pruitt — the attorney general of Oklahoma known for 14 lawsuits designed to fight regulations and cleanup efforts by the agency he hopes to lead — made the apparent false statement when referring to an ongoing environmental lawsuit involving several poultry companies in Arkansas.

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During Pruitt's campaign to become state attorney general, he received $40,000 in donations from those companies and law firms representing them, according to The New York Times. Once in office, he took an apparently less aggressive approach to pursuing the case than his predecessor.

In response to questions from Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey during his confirmation hearing, Pruitt said: "I have taken no action to undermine that case. I have done nothing but file briefs in support of the court making a decision."

Rivero and his team at Fusion found no evidence that Pruitt or his office had filed any briefs in support of making a decision with the case, apparently contradicting his claim under oath to the Senate.

Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-trumps-epa-pick-scott-183202469.html

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Don't worry, he was just mis-remembering his alternate facts

[Angry Dragon]

1. years the judge has had the case and still no ruling .......... terrible abuse of power

[world wide wally]

2. That is called 'Contempt of Congress'

How about prosecuting for a change?
I know would prosecute a nobody like all of us.

[Else You Are Mad]

3. I didn't think that...

The cabinet hearings were under oath. That is why nominees get away with lying.

[red dog 1]

6. Cabinet hearings are under oath

"Trump's Cabinet picks will have to answer the questions their boss has dodged"
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/10/14216948/trump-cabinet-pick-rex-tillerson-mike-pompeo-confirmation-hearing

(From above article)

"They (The Cabinet hearings) will be the first time that senior Trump appointees will have to answer, under oath, pointed questions about the shifting and often contradictory positions of the president they wish to serve."

[diva77]

4. Whatever happened to "recusing" yourself if you have a conflict of interest with a case?

aren't there laws for such matters?

[madokie]

5. Thats the problem

with 'alternate facts,' they're hard to remember.

Mom always told us kids to always tell the truth, that way you don't have remember anything.

[groundloop]

7. Ohhhh, but this was just some little unimportant non-issue about accepting bribes

If it had been related to something really really important (such as getting a blow-job) our repuke congress critters would be all over it.

[red dog 1]

8. K&R!

Pruitt lied....Period!

But Trump is a pathological liar too, so Pruitt will fit right into the Liar-in-Chief's Cabinet.

And since the GOP controls the Senate, don't hold your breath waiting for any "lying under oath" charges to be filed against Pruitt.

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Criminals are the new political party in DC.

[ffr]

10. Republicons aren't new though.

[They_Live]

11. What's another word for "false statement"?

LIE.

[Bayard]

12. I just fired an email back to Rand Paul

I'm on his mailing list. I received one from him crowing about getting regulations undone that Obama had put into place that protected streams in coal country from their pollution. I received the email back as undeliverable. Guess I'll be calling his office again tomorrow.

Pruitt is a disaster. You can't put a political operative in an office this important.