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Mr. President, it has been an honor to serve you in the Cabinet as Administrator of the EPA. Truly, your confidence in me has blessed me personally and enabled me to advance your agenda beyond what anyone anticipated at the beginning of your Administration. Your courage, steadfastness and resolute commitment to get results for the American people, both with regard to improved environmental outcomes as well as historical regulatory reform, is in fact occurring at an unprecedented pace and I thank you for the opportunity to serve you and the American people in helping achieve those ends.

That is why is hard for me to advise you I am stepping down as Administrator of the EPA effective as of July 6. It is extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role first because I count it a blessing to be serving you in any capacity, but also, because of the transformative work that is occurring. However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.

My desire in service to you has always been to bless you as you make important decisions for the American people. I believe you are serving as President today because of God’s providence. I believe that same providence brought me into your service. I pray as I have served you that I have blessed you and enabled you to effectively lead the American people. Thank you again Mr. President for the honor of serving you and I wish you Godspeed in all that you put your hand to.

Your Faithful Friend,

Scott Pruitt

However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.

flockofseagulls104 wrote:

However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.

Yup.

flockofseagulls104 wrote:

However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.

Yup.

flockofseagulls104 wrote:

However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.

Yup.

silverscreenselect wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote:

However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.

Yup.

Accountability is tough, especially in the Trump administration.

BackInTex wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Yup.

Accountability is tough, especially in the Trump administration.

Tell me about it! Previously is was a cake walk.

silverscreenselect wrote:
And none of these "scandals" resulted in a single federal ethics investigation, let alone the 18 that were ongoing at the time of Pruitt's resignation.

elwoodblues wrote:But would it be too much to ask for the next EPA chief to be someone who is actually interested in protecting the environment?

BackInTex wrote: LOL. THAT is part of the problem, a complete lack of federal ethics in the previous administration.

flockofseagulls104 wrote:

However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.

Yup.

BackInTex wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:
And none of these "scandals" resulted in a single federal ethics investigation, let alone the 18 that were ongoing at the time of Pruitt's resignation.

LOL. THAT is part of the problem, a complete lack of federal ethics in the previous administration.

Bob78164 wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:
And none of these "scandals" resulted in a single federal ethics investigation, let alone the 18 that were ongoing at the time of Pruitt's resignation.

LOL. THAT is part of the problem, a complete lack of federal ethics in the previous administration.

More whataboutism (and in this case factually baseless). --Bob

flockofseagulls104 wrote:Yes, He was the worst EPA Chief in history

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/09/us/color ... index.html

More whataboutism, eh, bob-tel?

But, of course, nobody suffered any consequences in the obama admin, because they all had good intentions.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... mine-spill

Bob78164 wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote:Yes, He was the worst EPA Chief in history

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/09/us/color ... index.html

More whataboutism, eh, bob-tel?

But, of course, nobody suffered any consequences in the obama admin, because they all had good intentions.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... mine-spill

Yes, it is.

And what Pruitt deliberately did to the environment will last far longer, and affect far more people, than one accidental spill that shut down use of a river for a couple of weeks. Hell, the Colorado spill doesn't even compare to what the government of Michigan did to the citizens of Flint. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote:Yes, He was the worst EPA Chief in history

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/09/us/color ... index.html

More whataboutism, eh, bob-tel?

But, of course, nobody suffered any consequences in the obama admin, because they all had good intentions.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... mine-spill

Yes, it is.

And what Pruitt deliberately did to the environment will last far longer, and affect far more people, than one accidental spill that shut down use of a river for a couple of weeks. Hell, the Colorado spill doesn't even compare to what the government of Michigan did to the citizens of Flint. --Bob

flockofseagulls104 wrote: The pressure gets so bad, and it would be so expensive for the target to try and defend him/herself, so they give up. Very ethical. All lawyers do it.

flockofseagulls104 wrote:https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... /78719620/

Notice it's not an 'unnamed source familiar with the subject'.
Did the EPA officials and their families experience unrelenting personal attacks from feral conservative activists?

silverscreenselect wrote:

flockofseagulls104 wrote: The pressure gets so bad, and it would be so expensive for the target to try and defend him/herself, so they give up. Very ethical. All lawyers do it.

So, you would rather believe that all these alleged ethics violations are inventions by leftist groups rather than something that actually occurred, based, I guess, on your superior knowledge of what Scott Pruitt actually did, and that the only reason that Pruitt gave himself up was because it was too expensive to defend himself.

Admittedly, Pruitt isn't one of Trump's wealthiest cabinet picks, but he is a millionaire and could certainly have afforded quality legal representation. But that's apparently the new party line among right wingers, that a group of completely innocent Trump loyalists are giving up and/or pleading guilty to lesser charges simply to avoid the pressure and/or expense of continuing to fight.

What will it take to actually convince you that some of these people actually are guilty? That the allegations that have been multiply sourced in various reputable news media (including the Wall Street Journal and other center to right--wing publications) and logically fit in with each other could actually be true and not part of a "fake news" conspiracy against Trump?