Buh-bye! 4 More Of Pruitt's Top Aides Gone/Leaving; House Search/Chick-Fil-A Squad Already Out

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The Washington Post is reporting that, in the wake of Scott Pruitt’s departure at the EPA, several of his top assistants are also calling it quits.

The departures include Jahan Wilcox, who as Pruitt’s combative spokesman fiercely defended the embattled Cabinet member and found himself facing criticism for his sometimes antagonistic approach to reporters covering the EPA; Lincoln Ferguson, a longtime aide and confidant who worked for Pruitt in Oklahoma and was nearly always by his side during his travels; Hayley Ford, deputy White House liaison, and Kelsi Daniell, an EPA spokeswoman.

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The trio of assistants who Pruitt counted on to run down his laundry, shop for his house, and find a job for his wife—and who Pruitt slipped massive payments from a fund intended to go to environmental consultants—left in advance of his extremely blessed resignation. Also out a few weeks ago was Albert Kelly, the former banker whose dishonesty had gotten him banned from banking for life before Pruitt put him in charge of the $1.1 billion account to distribute money to sites needing environmental clean up.

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There’s no word yet on whether Wheeler will retain Pruitt’s $25 million a year private army, or employ his $47,000 cone of silence. But it appears that Scott Pruitt’s legacy at the EPA is leaving as quickly as he did. Except for the part where he fundamental crippled the role of the agency, put in motion the destruction of the Clean Power Plan, Waters of the United States protections, Clean Streams protections, scientific review boards, public databases of climate data, and generally set the agency to eating itself. That stuff remains.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/11/1779685/-Sunset-for-Scott-Pruitt-s-legacy-as-the-remainder-of-his-top-aides-leave-the-building

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1. This makes me feel like it's the beginning

Of the denouement