Trump’s entire cabinet, and his closest advisers have reached a level of corruption not seen since the beginning of the 20^th century. The White House sits in the middle of the biggest swamp in American history. Leading the failed members of Trump’s circle of sinners is the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt.

When Pruitt travels at taxpayer expense he flies in first class; he justifies it by claiming that he is harassed when he sits with the general public; I wonder why. However, when he is traveling at his own expense he sits in coach. He resided in a condo owned by a natural gas lobbyist for $50 a night in a high-rent area of Washington. Two members of his staff who are also from Oklahoma received huge raises. Pruitt and seven members of his staff spent $40,000 to travel to and from Morocco, with a stopover in Paris. The purpose of the trip was to lobby for his benefactor’s liquefied natural gas company.

If any member of President Obama’s team had committed one of these offenses, conservatives would be screaming and demanding that he or she be beheaded. This is the hypocrisy of the Republican Party.

Trump continues to support Pruitt, whose goal is to destroy the very agency he leads. This was his latest tweet.

“Do you believe that the Fake News Media is pushing hard on a story that I am going to replace A.G. Jeff Sessions with EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, who is doing a great job but is TOTALLY under siege? Do people really believe this stuff? So much of the media is dishonest and corrupt!”

Let’s be totally clear. Trump want to remove Sessions because he refuses to bow to his fuhrer’s every demand. Sessions should be fired but for the right reasons. He is a white supremacist who is making a mockery of his office. Pruitt must be fired because he never should have been approved by the Republican Senate in the first place.

The Trump administration exists in an atmosphere of lies and corruption, and Scott Pruitt is the leader of the band. Trump and his cowardly Republicans continue to support Pruitt because he repealed the ‘Clean Air Act,’ and the ‘Clean Water Act.’ The party of special interests is in favor of destroying the environment and increasing the profits of big business.

Take your country back; it belongs to you, not to the once Grand Old Party.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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