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By JEREMY STAHL MAY 22, 201811:54 AM
After months of unceasing scandal, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, before Tuesday, could have been fairly described as the worst, most corrupt member of President Donald Trumps Cabinet. Now he can claim a new title: most thuggish member of Trumps cabinet.
The EPA banned reporters from AP, CNN, and environmental-focused news organization E&E from attending a national summit on harmful water contaminants on Tuesday, violently ejecting a reporter from the Associated Press.
Guards barred an AP reporter from passing through a security checkpoint inside the building. When the reporter asked to speak to an EPA public-affairs person, the security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.
Its unclear at this time why Pruitts government-sponsored goons went after these specific news organizations, but it might have something to do with their coverage of his bald-faced public corruption and his near-daily assaults on the environmental safety he was sworn to protect.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/scott-pruitt-has-reporters-violently-and-thugishly-ejected-from-epa-forum.html
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)When is the Fourth Estate going to burn these A---holes down?
olegramps
(8,200 posts)The Republican Party is financed by fascist oligarchs who are intent on establishing an authoritarian government that mimics those of Russia and China. Our freedoms are in deep jeopardy of being sacrificed. Good luck kids. While your parents slept they stole your inheritance for a good life.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)I am not being facetious. It seems to me that they are pushing the envelope to the point of breaking. Are they counting on their gun nut base to do the dirty work much like Hitler's Brown Shit thugs who they will get rid off after they have done the dirty work. I am convinced that these thugs who have taken over the government will stop at nothing to succeed.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Just because we have all the marksmen and women on our side doesn't mean we should take the bait.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)to the people...People should be FILLED with rage
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)the US gov. is just fine and will return to normal. That IMO is a major problem in the US, a lackadaisical populace when it comes to politics and trying to understand what is really going on.
triron
(22,013 posts)Hope we are not entering a new dark age.
babydollhead
(2,231 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)No hyperbole at all!
And if anyone questions the fact that the GOP are outright fascists, this outrageous incidence should erase all doubt!
Girard442
(6,083 posts)They think as long as we don't cross that line, we're still a democracy -- but there is no line. Governments exist on a continuous spectrum. It's possible to slide down the spectrum just a tiny bit at a time without triggering anyone's alarms -- until one day, ICE is loading brown-skinned people onto boxcars at bayonet point who will then never be seen again.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)beginning to think something like this could happen.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)He and his party have assaulted the rule of law and the constitution continuously.
For the most part the media has covered up for them. Maybe now that Trump's goon squads are coming after them the will start covering these fascist bastards as a threat to democracy!
LisaM
(27,827 posts)It became clear to me at that point that the Republicans would stop at nothing to gain power.
Submariner
(12,506 posts)Pruitt relishes being hated by his opposition. I only wish his imaginary skyperson was real so he would burn in hell for eternity.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)which explains why he keeps his job
spanone
(135,861 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)gademocrat7
(10,665 posts)Pruitt is a deplorable, despicable scumbag.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Wise up, America... Or it's over.