Trump floated replacing Sessions with Pruitt this week despite scandals

[UpInArms]

Source: CNN

(CNN)President Donald Trump floated replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Scott Pruitt as recently as this week, even as the scandal-ridden head of the Environmental Protection Agency has faced a growing list of negative headlines, according to people close to the President.

"He was 100% still trying to protect Pruitt because Pruitt is his fill-in for Sessions," one source familiar with Trump's thinking told CNN.

Though the President has, at times, floated several people a day for multiple positions in his administration that are already occupied, the proposition reveals just how frustrated Trump remains with Sessions because of his decision to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation more than a year ago, while signaling how confident he has remained in Pruitt despite a dizzying number of ethics issues.

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As with anything in the Trump White House, the situation remains fluid and circumstances continue to change from moment to moment. Press secretary Sarah Sanders told CNN Thursday the White House does "not have any plans for personnel changes at this time."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/05/politics/scott-pruitt-trump-jeff-sessions/index.html

[LiberalFighter]

1. Say what!!! Geesh

[no_hypocrisy]

2. What he'll do:

1. Fire Sessions
2. Hire Pruitt
3. Pruitt fires Mueller
4. Fire Pruitt

[NastyRiffraff]

3. Oh why the hell not?

Nothing Trump does, no matter how crazy, evil, illegal, etc. would surprise me now.

[progree]

4. I think we're being too hard on Pruitt. I almost have enough fingers and toes to count his ethical

violations, so he can't be too bad.

At Least 23 Ethical Issues Are Dogging EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

A shady real estate deal in Oklahoma. In 2011, Pruitt and his wife, Margaret, bought a property in Tulsa, Oklahoma, days before a court ruled that it had been fraudulently transferred by a Las Vegas developer who was on the hook for a $3.6 m ... (Huffington Post)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142030721

[C Moon]

5. Every time I read or hear the name trump associated with President of the U.S.

I disagree: he's not president. The election was a coup aided by Russia—and it fucking pisses me off that our country and constitution are being mocked by a band of criminals.

[riversedge]

6. I would love to know what Sessions thought of this when he read this headline.