I haven’t followed this but it stands to reason the left is out for his blood because he is good. They need to keep him.
no-one in President Trump’s Cabinet has been more effective than Scott Pruitt. he is systematically dismantling the architecture of the phony manmade global warming hundred-trillion-dollar scam. (that is how much allegedly needed to stop the temperature rising beyond their arbitrary figures).
in this one, the Atlantic’s global warming gate-keeper, Robinson Meyer, participates in another grossly exaggerated smear, which turns into another nothingburger when you get to the final paragraphs. no need to read any of the rest:
3 Apr: The Atlantic: Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides
by Elaina Plott and Robinson Meyer
It’s not as though Pruitt is the first EPA administrator to lean on the Safe Drinking Water Act hiring authority. EPA veterans of both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations said they were well-acquainted with the provision...
“I can’t imagine that being done in the regime in which I served,” said Stan Meiburg, a former acting deputy administrator of the EPA in the Obama administration. “It would have been very controversial. The accusation that would have been pinned on the administrator was that they were trying to give a private benefit using public funds.”
Meiburg, who spent his career at the EPA after joining as career staff in 1977, said that “ADs”—the internal shorthand for “administratively determined” hires—were considered a precious commodity inside the agency.
“The number of ADs were monitored very closely by the chief of staff,” he said. “To get one was a big deal. To get one was not an easy task.”...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/pruitt-epa/557123/
let Scott Pruitt know we also have his back.