New Yorker Writer Lashes Out at Scott Pruitt’s Evangelical Supporters

Calvin Beisner Jun 21, 2018

“How is it that the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, a public servant who walks around clouded in ethics scandals like Pig-Pen in his swirl of dust, still holds his job?”

That snide lead by Margaret Talbot to her New Yorker article June 8 titled “Are Evangelical Leaders Saving Scott Pruitt’s Job?” should tip off even the uninitiated that what follows will be—shall we say, something less than journalistic fairness?

Talbot attacks Pruitt, then turns to evangelical leaders whose support she thinks has kept him in office despite his “ethics scandals.”

What’s her beef with Pruitt? Well, according to her, he has engaged in acts that range from the pettily self-serving (allegedly asking agency employees to help him acquire a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel and to set up meetings so that his wife could get a Chick-fil-A franchise) to the egregiously self-serving (spending millions of dollars on an around-the-clock, twenty-person security detail, which is unprecedented at the Agency, and splurging on first-class flights) to the weirdly clandestine (installing a forty-three-thousand-dollar soundproof phone booth in his office, though there are other secure locations for conversation at the E.P.A. headquarters, and declining to follow past practice and release his schedule in advance).

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