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Jimbo101

(776 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 03:28 PM Mar 2017

Sessions not the only Trump cabinet member who lied during confirmation hearings

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There’s Scott Pruitt, heading up the incredible shrinking and increasingly pointless EPA. During his hearing, Pruitt was asked a rather straightforward question that should have been expected by anyone who had a nodding acquaintance with the election.

Pruitt stated in testimony that he had never used a private email account to conduct business while he was Oklahoma’s attorney general.

Yeah. Except, no.

Emails released under court order last week in response to a different public records request yielded additional examples where emails were addressed to Pruitt's private account ...

Or take this exchange with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos about her family’s LGBT-hating foundation.

“You sit on the board,” Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., noted. DeVos responded, “I do not.”

Funny thing … she does. Except DeVos says she doesn’t. It’s just that the foundation’s paperwork has been wrong. Every year. For twenty years. And that’s still not all ,......................
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Sessions not the only Trump cabinet member who lied during confirmation hearings (Original Post) Jimbo101 Mar 2017 OP
Since every one of them really wants to dsmantle the agencies they are tapped for... LisaM Mar 2017 #1

LisaM

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1. Since every one of them really wants to dsmantle the agencies they are tapped for...
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 03:32 PM
Mar 2017

I'd say they are liars just be saying they'll work on behalf of those agencies.

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