When Scott Pruitt was in state government in Oklahoma, he became one of the most corrupt politicians in America. We’ve learned to expect Republicans to surrender to promises of ‘big money,’ and lives of luxury, but Pruitt had ambitions and no patience.

Anyone who is informed is aware that when he was the Attorney General of Oklahoma, big oil had him in their pocket. He filed multiple lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency, the very organization he leads today. His fight for unlimited fracking in Oklahoma made him a rich man, but he found additional ways to live a privileged life without spending his own ill-gotten gain.

In 2003, Pruitt was a state senator. He purchased a house at an exceptionally reasonable price from a shell corporation registered under the name of a business partner and law school friend, Kenneth Wagner. The home was actually owned by a retiring lobbyist who is assumed to be a long-time associate of Pruitt. Wagner is now employed by Pruitt at the EPA.

Here’s the interesting fact; Pruitt purchased the house for $375,000, which was $100,000 less than former lobbyist, Marsha Lindsey, had paid for it the previous year.

Today Pruitt has proven to be the most expensive member of Trump’s circle of sinners other than Trump himself.

 Government waste is at his highest level in history. The tens of thousands of dollars Pruitt spent on redecorating his office unnecessarily is a violation of the rules; the maximum was $5,000. Traveling first class or on private aircraft is a violation of the rules. Accepting a gift from a natural gas lobbyist’s wife; allowing him to live in a Washington condo for the ridiculous price of $50 per night is a violation of the rule of ethics.

His only job is to destroy the EPA, and as he is attempting to do just that, he is spending your money almost as fast as Trump wastes your tax dollars. Snopes has verified that your illegitimate president and his white trash family spends more than $16,000,000 each month. Trump uses Air Force One to travel to and from his millionaires only golf resorts. The cost is $200,000 per hour. Then the expenses for the secret service and whoever he allows to travel with him makes his trips to Mar-a-Lago the biggest waste of money in American history.

The big question is ‘where are the conservatives?’ If Trump was a Democrat, and spent this amount of money, and allowed his circle of sinners to do the same, they would be suffering strokes. If a Democrat passed a “tax reform” bill which would add $1.9 trillion to the deficit, these fake conservatives would be screaming in front of the television cameras.

The label ‘Republican’ has become a synonym for hypocrite.

Please pass this on to everyone. No one wants to tell the truth, but I will, and I do.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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