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04-03-2018, 01:12 PM
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/03/trump-and-kelly-phone-pruitt-as-damaging-reports-pile-up-498328
Trump and Kelly phone Pruitt as damaging reports pile up
President Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly each phoned Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt over the last 24 hours amid a series of damaging reports that have raised the possibility that Pruitt could be fired.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that Trump spoke with Pruitt Monday night and Kelly talked to him Tuesday morning. She declined to get into the substance of their conversations, but other reports said the message to Pruitt was that "we've got your back.”
Or maybe a knife for in it.
The president also expressed muted support for the embattled agency chief during a meeting with foreign leaders on Tuesday. "I hope he's going to be great," Trump said of Pruitt, according to a press pool report.
In Trump’s White House, however, messages of support do not always carry much weight and can quickly be followed by an ouster, as was the case with former national security adviser H.R. McMaster.
A White House official told POLITICO on Tuesday that Pruitt’s future in the administration was uncertain, with the EPA chief facing mounting questions about his travel expenses, high security costs and the $50-a-night lodging he secured for several months last year in a lobbyist’s Capitol Hill condo. On Tuesday, the Atlantic reported that Pruitt went around the White House to secure raises for two of his staffers.
Trump and Kelly phone Pruitt as damaging reports pile up
President Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly each phoned Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt over the last 24 hours amid a series of damaging reports that have raised the possibility that Pruitt could be fired.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that Trump spoke with Pruitt Monday night and Kelly talked to him Tuesday morning. She declined to get into the substance of their conversations, but other reports said the message to Pruitt was that "we've got your back.”
Or maybe a knife for in it.
The president also expressed muted support for the embattled agency chief during a meeting with foreign leaders on Tuesday. "I hope he's going to be great," Trump said of Pruitt, according to a press pool report.
In Trump’s White House, however, messages of support do not always carry much weight and can quickly be followed by an ouster, as was the case with former national security adviser H.R. McMaster.
A White House official told POLITICO on Tuesday that Pruitt’s future in the administration was uncertain, with the EPA chief facing mounting questions about his travel expenses, high security costs and the $50-a-night lodging he secured for several months last year in a lobbyist’s Capitol Hill condo. On Tuesday, the Atlantic reported that Pruitt went around the White House to secure raises for two of his staffers.