First of all, let’s be honest; Scott Pruitt is a disaster. This man was bought and paid for in Oklahoma. He will forever be indebted to the petroleum industry. Pruitt may be Trump’s worst choice as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s difficult to say who is the worst member of Trump’s administration. Not only Pruitt, but Betsy DeVos, Steve Mnuchin, Ben Carson, Wilbur Ross, Ryan Zinke, and now his new Secretary of State nominee, Mike Pompeo, are all unfit and destructive in their positions.

Pruitt has engaged in what appears to be standard operating procedure for this administration. He is spending tens-of-thousands of taxpayer dollars traveling in first class and using military and private aircraft for business and pleasure.

Under heavy scrutiny by the American people is his last excursion to Morocco.

The bill for his airfare exceeded $40,000. He and his staff, all of them, traveled first class to and from Morocco. Now read this carefully; the purpose of his trip was to promote liquefied natural gas. Pruitt is the head of the EPA, not the Energy Department. But this can be explained.

Since his nomination was approved by the senate, Pruitt has been living in Washington. The mansion in which he lives is owned by the lobbyist for the only liquefied natural gas manufacturer in America.

Trump’s administration is the most corrupt in history, and they have only been in office for 14 months and 10 days. What damage will the do to our nation after four years? How many millions of dollars will they waste in that time?

Let’s get to the truth here. The phony conservatives on the right wing would be screaming if any of President Obama’s staff had acted like Pruitt. The next time you hear these hypocrites complaining about government waste, you are welcome to call “bullshit.” Republicans cannot exist without lies. They are interested in winning elections, not in serving our nation’s people.

Personally, Trump and his white trash family spend more than 16 million dollars each month, as confirmed by Snopes. Every proposal from Trump is a gift to himself and other wealthy men and women, and will destroy the middle class and increase poverty.

They must go.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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