I am skeptical of reports saying that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was forced to resign.
There is no way that guy could have been forced out of his office — even with special ops teams involved. Pruitt spent the past 16 months turning the Environmental Protection Agency into a paramilitary operation, with the sole purpose of protecting him.
Pruitt had spent some $4.6 million on security, enlisting a round-the-clock detail that followed him everywhere, even to Disneyland and Italy, whisking him from his office — where a $43,000 soundproof phone booth cocooned him and a panic alarm connected him directly to the security office — to the $50-a-night room in a condominium that he had rented from a lobbyist.
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