EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, is out. Trump rallies in Montana and we check the mailbag.

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So a lot of people are coming to Scott Pruitt's defense.

They are suggesting that he was unfairly targeted. They were pointing out the EPA under Barack Obama was scandal-ridden. Yes, that's true. The EPA under Barack Obama was indeed scandal-ridden. I remember when they turned an entire river in Colorado yellow. You remember that? They were trying to get rid of some waste, and so they blew up a barrier in the place that was holding the waste and infused an entire river with this bright yellow copper-tinged gunk. It was great. The EPA under Barack Obama was a disaster. That said, was Scott Pruitt on the up and up? There are a lot of people out there defending Scott Pruitt today saying that Scott Pruitt was on the up and up. It was all targeted. Well, if that's the case, then you have to wonder, why is it that the only Trump administration officials who have been forced out were forced out for actual reasons of corruption, like Tom Price over at the Health and Human Services desk, or Scott Pruitt over at EPA? Like, they haven't found anything on General Mattis over at Department of Defense. They haven't found anything on Mike Pompeo over at State, even when Rex Tillerson was there, and he wasn't a good Secretary of State.

They had nothing on Rex Tillerson. And there are a lot of folks who are defending Scott Pruit today saying that he was just targeted because he was such a do-gooder over at the EPA, reducing regulations. But the guy who is going to be replacing him, Andrew Wheeler, is going to be just as activist,

from what I understand. Donald Trump tweeted out, I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt

as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within the agency, Scott has done an

outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this. The Senate confirmed deputy

EPA. Andrew Wheeler will on Monday assume duties as the acting administrator of the EPA.

I have no doubt, Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda. We have made tremendous progress in the future of the EPA was bright. Well, his resignation letter to Donald Trump is appropriately obsequious. I mean, it is supremely obsequious. And Trump is a big Trump defender. He's a big Pruitt defender, specifically because Pruitt is a big Trump defender. So Pruitt wrote in his letter, quote, is extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role first because I count it as 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.

The talk from inside the administration is that Pruitt was actually forced out. This was not him

saying that he wanted to go. The president says that Pruitt did an outstanding job inside the EPA.

So here is just a list of the scandals that led to Scott Pruitt stepping down because there's a lot of talk about Pruitt being unfairly targeted here. Okay, it ain't great. So number one, Pruitt fired an aid after she refused to alter appointments on his calendar. So an EPA schedule was asked to delete and change information about past events on Pruitt's schedule, which could be potentially a violation of federal law since you're not allowed to go back retroactively and change what was on your schedule. EPA lawyers made the aid aware that altering records may be illegal. This is fortune.com reporting. Scott Pruitt asked his staff to find his wife a job with a salary of at least $200,000, which is not an appropriate use of government staff. She also reportedly agreed that Pruitt had asked subordinates to perform personal work. This is according to Samantha Dreyvis, a former EPA policy administrator. She told congressional investigators that Pruitt had asked her to help find Pruitt's wife a job, and the salary should be at least 200 grand. Scott Pruitt used official channels to try to get a Chick-fil-A franchise for his wife, which is real weird since you can just apply to get a Chick-fil-A franchise. He used a secret email address instead of official ones, even after the Hillary Clinton email scandal. He used a loophole to award staff raises without White House knowledge. This, of course, was very controversial at the time. The White House told Prude he couldn't offer high salaries to two of his closest AIDS, but then he used a loophole in the Safe Drinking

Water Act to boost their wages, according to the Atlantic. He rented a Washington, D.C. apartment at a steep discount from a lobbyist. He apparently rented this apartment at $50 bucks a night. In Washington, D.C. It was supposedly owned by the wife in a couple who were both lobbyists. Her husband represented clients who had matters in front of the EPA. He chartered lots of flights. He flew first class. He had a $43,000 soundproof phone booth

installed in his office, suggesting that there were just too many people attempting to spy on him.

He ordered a non-precedented security detail. He was saying there were threats against him,

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