Scott Pruitt wanted an EPA office in his hometown even before he was sworn in – ThinkProgress

[ad_1]<br/><br><div><br/> <p>Even before he was sworn in as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt was demonstrating the questionable judgment that has marked his 15-month tenure as head of the agency.</p><br/><p>Working with his soon-to-be chief of staff, Pruitt explored the possibility of establishing an EPA office in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. If successful, Pruitt could have stayed in Tulsa to conduct much of his work. As it turned out, Pruitt was unable to get the office set up in 2017 and has since ended up traveling back to Tulsa on most weekends.</p><br/><p>In January 2017, Ryan Jackson, who was working on the staff of Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) at the time, directed EPA staff to identify proposed new office space in Tulsa that included a conference room, secure parking, and secure communications space, according to information in a <a href="https://democrats-science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.house.gov/files/documents/05.01.18%20Letter%20to%20Pruitt%20with%20Tulsa%2C%20OK%20Office%20Records%20Request.pdf">letter</a> sent to Pruitt on Tuesday by three Democratic members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.</p><br/><p><span style="font-size: 18.7501px;">On February 17, 2017, </span>Pruitt was sworn in as EPA administrator. Jackson, who was several days away from joining the EPA himself, sent the email request for a Tulsa office to the EPA’s Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations on January 31.</p><br/><p>“It appears that even before he was confirmed, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had dreams of dismantling programs to protect air, water and kids from pollution from the comforts of an office in his hometown,” Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook said Wednesday in a statement. “What better place to have a secure phone booth to receive instructions from the energy lobby, and avoid the pesky expertise of agency scientists and lawyers?”</p><br/><br/><p>In early 2017, the EPA’s staff followed Jackson’s orders, even though he was still serving as majority staff director of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, headed at the time by Inhofe. The EPA staff contacted a top official at the General Services Administration (GSA), informing him that the request for a Tulsa office was coming directly from Pruitt.</p><br/><p>“Establishing a new EPA office in Tulsa may be personally convenient for you, but it seems ethically questionable, professionally unnecessary, and financially unjustified,” the three Democrats <span style="font-size: 18.7501px;">wrote. The letter is signed by</span><span style="font-size: 1.17188rem;"> Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), the top Democrat on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee; Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), the top Democrat on the committee’s Environment subcommittee; and Don Beyer (D-VA), the top Democrat on the committee’s Oversight subcommittee. </span></p><br/><br/><p>The House members also noted that the EPA already had a regional office in Dallas, which is about 250 miles from Tulsa.</p><br/><p>In the letter, the lawmakers said their goal was to fully understand the circumstances behind the request and find out the status of the inquires about a Tulsa office. They’ve requested all email communications between the EPA and the GSA about the proposed creation of a Tulsa office.</p><br/><p>While Pruitt has yet to get an agency office in Tulsa, the EPA did spend $43,000 on a privacy phone booth in his office at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. In addition to the privacy booth in Pruitt’s office, there are two other sensitive compartmented information facilities, or SCIFs, at the EPA’s headquarters building, similar to the secure communications space he wanted at a Tulsa office.</p><br/><p>The three Democrats also noted in their letter that documents previously obtained through the Freedom of Information Act revealed that Pruitt frequently traveled home to Tulsa on weekends during his first few months in office. In fact, the records showed that Pruitt <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-inquiry-scott-pruitt-travel-fc573254269f/'">traveled</a> to Oklahoma dozens of times, at taxpayer’s expense, during his first six months as administrator.</p><br/><p>Inhofe, who has strongly supported Pruitt as EPA administrator, recently expressed concern about the EPA chief’s spending habits and the ethics questions surrounding him. “I’ve known him since he was in the state legislature and supported him,” Inhofe <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/climate/pruitt-inhofe-epa-ethics.html">told</a> the New York Times last week. “These are accusations I did not know anything about.”</p><br/><p>White Pruitt’s job currently appears to be safe, two top EPA officials announced their <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/two-top-pruitt-aides-resign-6d20e7ff2400/">resignations</a> on Tuesday. Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta, who led Pruitt’s 24-hour security detail, and Albert “Kell” Kelly, who was in charge of the agency’s Superfund program, both left the agency.</p><br/><br/><p>Last week, Pruitt faced extensive questioning before two House committees. Democrats portrayed him as an embarrassment to the Trump administration and called on him to resign, while most Republicans defended him.</p><br/><p>Despite surviving the hearings relatively unscathed, controversy continues to swirl around Pruitt. Questions have arisen this week about the role played by lobbyists in Pruitt’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/us/pruitt-epa-trips-lobbyists.html">trip to Morocco</a> last December and a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/climate/epa-pruitt-australia-travel.html">planned trip to Australia</a> that was canceled due to Hurricane Harvey hitting the Gulf Coast.</p><br/><p>Pruitt’s ability to survive all of the scandals has many in Washington perplexed. Some attribute Pruitt’s ability to keep his job to his dedication to ignoring EPA’s core responsibilities: protecting the environment and human health.</p><br/><p>“Trump means what he says about people looking strong as opposed to weak,” a Republican consultant <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-scott-pruitt-may-be-hanging-onto-his-job-for-now/">told</a> CBS News. “Pruitt hasn’t backed down in the face of some searing criticism — even from people in his own party. 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Trump’s Former Doctor Says Office Was Raided and Files Seized

[ad_1]<br/><br><div><div class="css-xk4wzv emamhsk2"><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">WASHINGTON — President Trump’s longtime physician said <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351" target="_blank" title="">in an interview published Tuesday</a> that after he told <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/trump-prostate-drug-hair-harold-bornstein.html" target="_blank" title="">The New York Times</a> that Mr. Trump took a drug to promote hair growth, two Trump aides staged what he called “a raid” of his Manhattan office in February 2017 and removed all of Mr. Trump’s medical files.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, who served as Mr. Trump’s personal doctor for 36 years, <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351" target="_blank" title="">told NBC News</a> that the roughly half-hour encounter left him feeling “raped, frightened and sad.” He said that since the president’s bodyguard, Keith Schiller, accompanied by a lawyer for the Trump Organization, Alan Garten, and a third man he did not recognize took the files, he has had no contact with Mr. Trump and been effectively removed from his orbit.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">In a brief phone call with The Times on Tuesday, Dr. Bornstein did not elaborate on what he told NBC except to say that his earlier interviews with a reporter for the newspaper had caused him “torture for more than a year.” He demanded an apology and a large donation in his name to Tufts University, <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://sites.tufts.edu/medicine/summer-2017/three-questions-with-dr-harold-n-bornstein/" target="_blank" title="">where he completed medical school</a>. The Times declined both requests.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">Dr. Bornstein had privately told several associates that he had been the target of a raid during which handwritten records and printed laboratory results were seized, but he had declined to answer questions publicly about the episode until this week.</p></div><aside class="css-15v9f0h emamhsk1"/></div><div><div class="css-xk4wzv emamhsk2"><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">He told NBC that he decided to speak out after seeing reports that Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, the president’s nominee to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, had been <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/politics/ronny-jackson-nomination-withdrawn.html" target="_blank" title="">accused of doling out medications and behaving inappropriately</a> while serving as the White House physician. Dr. Jackson withdrew from consideration for the post shortly afterward.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Tuesday that Dr. Jackson would return to the White House medical unit but not as Mr. Trump’s physician. She said Dr. Sean Conley, a Navy commander who has been the acting White House physician since Dr. Jackson’s nomination to the cabinet, would replace him.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">“This is like a celebration for me,” Dr. Bornstein said.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">Ms. Sanders dismissed Dr. Bornstein’s description of the visit by the three men as a raid. In a briefing with reporters, she said that the files had been removed by the White House medical unit as part of a standard transition procedure.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">“The White House medical unit took possession of the president’s medical records,” Ms. Sanders said. Asked whether the visit was a raid carried out by Mr. Schiller, she replied, “That is not my understanding.” She did not address why Mr. Schiller, who was not a part of the unit, had been present.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">Dr. Bornstein said that he was not given a standard release form conforming to Hipaa regulations to sign over Mr. Trump’s records before they were taken. But Ms. Sanders said that the White House medical unit supplied Dr. Bornstein with a letter requesting the records.</p></div><aside class="css-15v9f0h emamhsk1"/></div><div><div class="css-xk4wzv emamhsk2"><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">The Trump Organization, which at the time employed both Mr. Schiller and Mr. Garten, declined to comment.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">In his initial interviews with The New York Times in 2017, Dr. Bornstein made no secret of the fact that he had wanted to be the White House physician.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">During the presidential campaign, he wrote two letters vouching for Mr. Trump’s health. In December 2015, he said that Mr. Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” and in September 2016, he said that Mr. Trump was “in excellent physical health.” (As his frustrations appeared to mount on Tuesday, Dr. Bornstein told CNN that Mr. Trump <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/politics/harold-bornstein-trump-letter/index.html" target="_blank" title="">had dictated</a> the contents of the first letter.)</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">Dr. Bornstein quickly fell out of favor with Mr. Trump after the Times article, in which he gave a public accounting of Mr. Trump’s health and complained about the poor seats he was assigned at the president’s inauguration.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">In the Times interviews — for which he also asked for a donation in his name to Tufts, a request The Times also declined — Dr. Bornstein <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/trump-prostate-drug-hair-harold-bornstein.html" target="_blank" title="">discussed Mr. Trump’s medical history</a> and bragged about having “every phone number for him and all the wives,” whom he also treated. He said Mr. Trump, rumored to be a germaphobe, “changes the paper on the table himself” after examinations.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">He also described the medications Mr. Trump was taking: antibiotics to control rosacea, a statin for elevated blood cholesterol and lipids, and finasteride, a prostate-related drug to promote hair growth.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">“He has all his hair,” said Dr. Bornstein, who also took the drug. He also slipped in a boast about his own shoulder-length coif: “I have all my hair.”</p></div><aside class="css-15v9f0h emamhsk1"/></div><div><div class="css-xk4wzv emamhsk2"><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">Among other claims he made to NBC about the confrontation in his office, Dr. Bornstein said Mr. Schiller and Mr. Garten instructed him to remove a photo of Mr. Trump from the wall. As his lopsided news media tour continued, Dr. Bornstein <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/991386021718908931" target="_blank" title="">also fielded a brief call</a> from CBS.</p><p class="css-1psrv1x e2kc3sl0">“Sweetheart, this is Watergate. Goodbye!” the doctor said to a producer for the network before hanging up.</p></div><aside class="css-15v9f0h emamhsk1"/></div><div><div class="ExtendedInformation-extendedInformation--3og6I ExtendedInformation-news--2QoWo"><p>Nate Schweber contributed reporting from New York, and Julie Hirschfeld<em> </em>Davis from Washington.</p> </div><div class="PrintInformation-printInformation--2_6hD PrintInformation-news--3j8HX">A version of this article appears in print on <!-- -->, on Page <!-- -->A<!-- -->14<!-- --> of the New York edition<!-- --> with the headline: <!-- -->Doctor Says Trump Aides Raided His Office for Files<span>. <a href="http://www.nytreprints.com/">Order Reprints</a> | <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html">Today’s Paper</a> | <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8HYKU.html?campaignId=48JQY">Subscribe</a></span></div></div><script async src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br/><br>[ad_2]<br/><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/us/politics/trump-doctor-harold-bornstein.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">Source link </a>

Trump’s Former Doctor Says Office Was Raided and Files Seized

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White House confirms involvement in ‘raid’ of Trump’s former doctor’s office – ThinkProgress

[ad_1]<br/><br><div><br/> <p>During a news briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that the White House was involved in retrieving President Trump’s medical records from his former doctor, Dr. Harold Bornstein, but disputed Bornstein’s claim that what a top White House aide and Trump Organization official did to his office in February 2017 was tantamount to a “raid.”</p><br/><p>“Why did Keith Schiller, who was a White House employee at the time, go and take medical records from the president’s personal doctor last year?” NBC’s Hallie Jackson asked. Schiller is Trump’s longtime bodyguard and served as director of Oval Office operations from Trump’s inauguration until September of last year.</p><br/><p>“Ah, as is standard operating procedure for a new president, the White House medical unit took possession of the president’s medical records,” Sanders replied.</p><br/><p>“It was characterized as a ‘raid’ — is that your understanding of what happened?” Jackson followed up. “The doctor seemed to be pretty upset about it.”</p><br/><p>“Ah no, that is not my understanding,” Sanders replied, without elaborating.</p><br/><p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZknWfvBpGNM?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;"></iframe></span></p><br/><p>A short time later, another reporter followed up, noting that “there are some today that are saying what happened with the president’s former personal doctor is a burglary, the way Keith Schiller busted in–”</p><br/><p>Sanders cut him off.</p><br/><p>“I don’t know if ‘some’ — I think there is one, but not ‘some,'” Sanders said, alluding to Bornstein’s recollection of in the incident. “Once again, it would be standard procedure for the president — a newly elected president’s medical records to be in possession by the White House medical unit, and that was what was taking place, is those records were being transferred over to the White House medical unit, as requested.”</p><br/><p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vG4A7rMsHFY?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;"></iframe></span></p><br/><p>Sanders’ portrayal of the February 2017 incident is at odds with Bornstein, who <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doc-says-trump-bodyguard-lawyer-raided-his-office-took-n870351">told NBC</a> that the “raid” left him feeling “raped, frightened, and sad” and “created a lot of chaos.”</p><br/><p>Bornstein said that the incident happened two days after he told the New York Times that Trump takes Propecia, a drug that is often prescribed to stimulate hair grown in men.</p><br/><p>“I couldn’t believe anybody was making a big deal out of a drug to grow his hair that seemed to be so important,” Bernstein said. “And it certainly was not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody they take Propecia to grow their hair. What’s the matter with that?”</p><br/><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><br/><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump's doctor, Dr. Harold Bornstein, tells NBC that Trump's bodyguard & lawyer spent 30 minutes raiding his office. </p><br/><p>"I couldn't believe anybody was making a big deal about a drug that's to grow his hair, which seemed to be so important… what's the matter with that?" <a href="https://t.co/R2XvAKim7h">pic.twitter.com/R2XvAKim7h</a></p><br/><p>— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/991350515236724736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2018</a></p></blockquote><br/><br/><p>Bornstein said that Schiller, Trump Organization Chief Legal Officer Alan Garten, and another “large man” showed up unexpectedly at his office and spent about 30 minutes rummaging through it. He says they took the original and only copy of Trump’s medical charts.</p><br/><p>During a subsequent conversation with CBS, Bornstein compared what happened in his office to the Watergate break-in.</p><br/><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><br/><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/KaciSokoloff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KaciSokoloff</a> just spoke w Dr. Harold Bornstein, who refused an interview but said that NBC's piece was "a pretty good story." Bornstein also said that he spoke to the NBC reporter “in the bathroom” of his office. He signed off with: "Sweetheart, this is watergate, goodbye!"</p><br/><p>— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/991386021718908931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2018</a></p></blockquote><br/><br/><p>During the presidential campaign, Bornstein — who was Trump’s personal doctor for more than three decades — <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-campaign-embraces-conspiracy-theory-about-hillary-clintons-cough-29213e3c0958/">released a letter</a> proclaiming Trump had “no significant medical problems in the past 39 years” and would be “the healthiest individual elected to the presidency.”</p><br/><p>During a press conference earlier this year, White House doctor Ronny Jackson provided a similarly glowing review of Trump’s health. “Some people have just great genes. I told the president that if he had a healthier diet over the past 20 years he might live to be 200 year old,” Jackson said. He <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/953367280305475590">also confirmed that Trump takes Propecia</a>.</p><br/><p>Jackson was recently nominated by Trump to be director of the Department of Veterans Affairs, but his nomination quickly fell through amid allegations that he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/25/the-list-of-allegations-against-ronny-jackson-annotated/?utm_term=.5bd18a1ed76b#annotations:14415634">doled out prescription drugs like candy and drank excessively on the job</a>. Trump has <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/989935155870658562">repeatedly said he believes all of the allegations against Jackson are false</a>.</p><br/><p>During the briefing on Tuesday, Sanders confirmed that Jackson no longer serves as Trump’s personal physician. </p><br/><div class="promo amp-wp-article-promo"><br/><figure class="post__figure post__figure--format-full"><div class="post__thumbnail"><br/> <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/membership/?c=cr042018-4-00-wp"><br/> <picture id="picture-1049373" class="size-full " data-id="1049373""><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cr042018_4-00.png?w=1051&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C1454px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 1280px)"/><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cr042018_4-00.png?w=1051&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C1454px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1280px)"/><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cr042018_4-00.png?w=1024&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C1417px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1024px)"/><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cr042018_4-00.png?w=1024&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C1417px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 512px) and (max-width: 1024px)"/><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cr042018_4-00.png?w=768&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C1062px&ssl=1" media="(min-width: 512px) and (max-width: 768px)"/><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cr042018_4-00.png?w=512&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C708px&ssl=1" media="(max-width: 512px)"/><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cr042018_4-00.png?w=768&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C1062px&ssl=1" media="(max-width: 768px)"/><source srcset="https://i2.wp.com/thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cr042018_4-00.png?w=1051&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C1454px&ssl=1" media="all"/><img alt="" srcset="https://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cr042018_4-00.png?w=1051&h=1454&crop=1"/></picture></a><br/> </div><br/></figure></div><br/><br/><br/> </div><script async src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><br/><br>[ad_2]<br/><br><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/harold-bornstein-raid-sarah-sanders-confirms-white-house-involvement-trump-records-1e84e14e2b24/">Source link </a>

White House confirms involvement in ‘raid’ of Trump’s former doctor’s office – ThinkProgress

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