Some on the left are all atwitter about the fact that Scott Pruitt got a sweetheart deal on a condo in Washington from a lobbyist for whom he could do favors at the EPA.
The Environmental Protection Agency signed off last March on a Canadian energy company’s pipeline-expansion plan at the same time that the E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt, was renting a condominium linked to the energy company’s powerful Washington lobbying firm.
Both the E.P.A. and the lobbying firm dispute that there was any connection between the agency’s action and the condo rental, for which Mr. Pruitt was paying $50 a night.
Some might say there is an appearance of a quid pro quo here, but anyone with a brain can see that’s completely absurd. The pipeline-expansion plan is environmentally destructive, which means that Pruitt would have approved the plan even if he hadn’t gotten the sweetheart deal. That’s what he lives for. So the EPA is telling the unvarnished truth. I think it’s shameful for liberals to imply that Pruitt would have protected the environment had he not been paid to do otherwise. He’s a man of principle, after all.
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