Good. I’ll refresh my recollection. I love it that he wanted his security entourage to use sirens when he traveled by car — even to restaurants. And the woman who owned the apartment he stayed in, whom he favored politically because of his tenancy, said that she was fed up with him, he’d overstayed his welcome and she had to change the locks to get him out. Sure, these are clear indications of personal, not political, failings, they certainly are indicative of his ethics and morals; and in this case (as with most all of Trump’s crowd) I’d agree with the old feminist line: “The personal is the political.”

The greatest damage Mr Pruitt could inflict on the EPA has already taken place. Decades of environmental legislation undone. His corrupt actions (the 50$/night rooms in upmarket New York owned by a lobbyist, gigantic tax-payer funded travel expenses, huge increases for two of his collaborators in a sneaky way after it had been turned down [note although both are good looking young women, there is -surprisingly- no rumour of hanky-panky], unnecessary use of sirens,…the list goes on and on) amount to peanuts in comparison.
I just hope he will be kept at EPA for now, until the unfolding of his corruption makes him ineligible for any post. In other positions he might even cause fresh Major Damage (such as indeed firing Mueller).

I found the post I wrote about him recently: https://www.heatherhastie.com/us-epa-reduces-safety-rules-plus-tweets/

Yes, and I really messed up some of the details on this thing. It was Morroco where Pruitt and the whole gang were going to sell the Ichan Natural gas. They created themselves a nice layover in Paris as well.
He also has lied about the things done to get the two staffers a big raise. Now we have another one. A staff member that got paid but did not come to work for three months. It just keeps going. Now 64 members of congress have sent a letter asking that Pruitt resign or fire Pruitt. It is all Trump ethics times ten.

Wow! Outrageous! He’s done other stuff like tour oil companies etc., but that’s the worst I’ve heard of non-EPA duties that he’s got involved in. He should be out. Instead, Trump is praising him and considering giving him Sessions’ job. Pruitt wouldn’t have to recuse himself from the Mueller investigation and so could fire Mueller seems to be the reasoning. Trump is desperately trying to find a way to fire Mueller and stop the investigation. No the actions of a man with nothing to hide!

Imo Scott Pruitt is one of the Trump administration’s more dreadful creatures. I think I wrote about him not long ago. His history of corruption is disgusting. He was clearly deeply in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry and the evidence deliberately wasn’t released until after his confirmation. The EPA has become the Environmental Destruction Agency. He was one of the greatest advocates for pulling out if the Paris Accord. He’s simply ghastly. So much for draining the swamp. He’s The Swamp Monster.

There has always been lots of rape among those trying to get to the US. How he could possibly know it’s at levels beyond anything seen before is beyond me. The caravan itself is likely to have low levels of rape as it includes a lot of families. It’s an annual thing. Most of it has dissipated – about a tenth of the original is still there. They are, or should be, the least of Trump’s worries.

An interesting fact. Almost all border counties are Democrat, and are also majorly anti-Trump because of his anti-immigrant rhetoric. In general, the places that are the most anti-iimmigrant are those that have the least immigrants. That isn’t surprising of course. People fear what they don’t know.

Bush and Obama had National Guard troops as back up on the border to release border control agents for work in the field. Trump is talking about something different – placing armed soldiers ready to shoot. It’s ridiculous because sneaking across is not how most get in anyway. Armed soldiers was apparently done once before and a young Texas man was accidentally shot, so people on the border aren’t eager to have them back.

A sheriff from a border county was interviewed on CNN yesterday. He said similar stuff to what I did. They don’t need the military. They need more trained border control agents and better resourcing of those they’ve got, plus better resourcing of local law enforcement. He said locals are still really upset about the young man shot by the military.