Pruitt directly asked Trump to replace Sessions with him

[OxQQme]

Source: CNN

(CNN) - Embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt directly appealed to President Donald Trump this spring to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and let him run the Department of Justice instead, according to three people familiar with the proposal. In an Oval Office conversation with Trump, Pruitt offered to temporarily replace Sessions for 210 days under the Vacancies Reform Act, telling the President he would return to Oklahoma afterward to run for office.
Pruitt's direct appeal to the President has not been reported previously.
Advisers quickly shot down the proposal, but it came at a time when Trump's frustration with Sessions over his decision to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation had resurfaced. Trump has complained loudly and publicly about the recusal for the last 14 months, and floated replacing Sessions with Pruitt as recently as April.

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/politics/scott-pruitt-jeff-sessions-trump/index.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Scott Pruitt is a first string suck up.

His trousers must have reinforced knees.

[lapfog_1]

2. This is not the Onion???

really???

[OxQQme]

5. Well, CNN is "fake news" after all.

[Solly Mack]

3. LMAO

Oh...damn...this is actual news.

[C_U_L8R]

4. That's gonna make some awkward cabinet meetings

Aren't they surreal enough??

[lapfog_1]

6. cabinet members all start with "Thanks to our glorious dear leader... blah blah blah"

so there isn't much more that can happen that will make things more surreal.

But, of course, you are right.

[C_U_L8R]

7. I'd recommend shinguards

there will be much kicking under the table

[lapfog_1]

9. sessions can't kick back

well, he could, but his legs won't reach that far.

[unc70]

13. Can double as knee pads

For those intimate moments.

[KayF]

8. that would be a perfect job for Pruitt's wife

salary is $205,000!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Pruitt will never realize he is the problem, not the job. . . . nt

[Glimmer of Hope]

11. This guy is something else.

[riversedge]

17. Sure has a high opinion of himself!

[avebury]

12. We don't want him back in Oklahoma.

Does he not realize that he has given every opponent (Rethug or Democrat) that he might come up against all the material they need for political ads? I really wonder what corrupt acts that he has already been involved in back when he was in Oklahoma. When you look at all the corrupt acts he has committed in Washington, he has to have been just as bad (if not worse) when he was in Oklahoma.

[tavernier]

14. But when do they shoot the guy out of the cannon?

You can’t have a proper circus with just clowns.
Ronald TheDonald, Muggles McConnell, Bozo Kelly are all good for a laugh, but one of them really needs to get in that cannon.

Say.... Swampy Pruitt might be the best choice... he already has a mattress to land on!

[pangaia]

15. "More at the link!"

Who needs more ??

[Trust Buster]

16. Pruitt will be the one Don the Con will use to fire Rosenstein and eventually Mueller.

That is what Pruitt meant by the 210 days and out comment. He can serve as AG for 210 days without confirmation. He was offering to be the hatchet man. Pruitt would have been gone already given his corrupt actions while at EPA. Don the Con has not fired him for a reason folks. HE IS THE CON’S SAFETY VALVE !!!!!