Backstabber Watch

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Friday that the Republican Party “sucks” while discussing why former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt lasted so long in the Trump administration despite multiple scandals.

While hosting a segment on MSNBC’s “Deadline” on Friday evening, Wallace pressed former CIA agent and 2016 independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin over the GOP's inaction on Pruitt amid multiple controversies.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt may still be clinging to his job despite his ever-expanding list of controversies, but his inner circle of allies is shrinking fast.

Since April, seven key EPA staffers have resigned, four of whom had once worked for him or were longtime friends he brought to the EPA from Oklahoma. And while not directly affiliated with the EPA, Senator James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who has been a key ally of Pruitt’s, recently revealed some cracks in his support. On Wednesday, when Fox News personality Laura Ingraham observed that Pruitt was “hurting the president”and it was time for him to go, Inhofe replied,“I’ve seen these things. They upset me as much as they upset you, and I think something needs to happen to change that.” He suggested that one solution “would be for him to leave that job,” and that the deputy EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler “might be a good swap.”

Donald Trump’s insane rally speech the other day was probably a welcome respite for disgrace of a person Scott Pruitt, as the latter retires under scandal, arguably one of the most corrupt and morally bankrupt government officials we have seen in the modern era. Trump attacked everybody including George Bush senior for his “Thousand Points of Light” call to charity.