White House: Trump Has Full Confidence In Scott Pruitt

The Hill reports:

White House legislative director Marc Short said on Sunday that President Trump has full confidence in embattled Environmental Protection Administrator (EPA) Scott Pruitt. “Scott Pruitt is doing a phenomenal job and the president is happy with him,” Short told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.” Short refused to say what it would take for Trump to lose full confidence in Pruitt. Pruitt has weathered a series of controversies involving spending over the past month, which has raised ethics questions.

Yesterday the New York Times published a lengthy recounting of Pruitt’s grifting and corruption while Oklahoma Attorney General. The piece is really something.