EPA’s Pruitt in 2016: Trump would be 'abusive to the Constitution'

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told an Oklahoma radio show in 2016 that Donald Trump in the White House would be "more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama," according to a recording released Tuesday by a watchdog group. On the Tulsa-based "The Pat Campbell Show," on Feb. 4, 2016, Pruitt, who was then Oklahoma's attorney general and an adviser to presidential candidate Jeb Bush, said he wouldn't support Trump. "I really believe he would use a blunt instrument," Pruitt said of Trump. "This president at least tries to nuance his unlawfulness." If Trump became president, "he would take, I think, unapologetic steps to use executive power to confront Congress in a way that is truly unconstitutional," Pruitt said...more