Pruitt’s ethics mess kept dragging Trump’s anti-corruption act into the gutter
Fresh fact-checking on May 21 kept the Scott Pruitt saga in the mix, with more examples of an administration official behaving like the rules were for other people. The political problem for Trump was obvious: he had sold himself as a wrecking ball against waste and corruption, but the people around him kept becoming the exhibit. That is how a personnel problem becomes a credibility problem for the whole White House.
First recorded May 21, 2018·Meaningfully updated May 21, 2018
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Pruitt’s ethics mess kept dragging Trump’s anti-corruption act into the gutter
Fresh fact-checking on May 21 kept the Scott Pruitt saga in the mix, with more examples of an administration official behaving like the rules were for other people. The political problem for Trump was obvious: he had sold himself as a wrecking ball against waste and corruption, but the people around him kept becoming the exhibit. That is how a personnel problem becomes a credibility problem for the whole White House.
Fresh fact-checking on May 21 kept the Scott Pruitt saga in the mix, with more examples of an administration official behaving like the rules were for other people. The political problem for Trump was obvious: he had sold himself as a wrecking ball against waste and corruption, but the people around him kept becoming the exhibit. That is how a personnel problem becomes a credibility problem for the whole White House.
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