{"id":31725,"date":"2018-07-08T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31725"},"modified":"2018-07-08T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T18:05:00","slug":"former-epa-chief-and-trump-appointee-scott-pruitt-is-reportedly-devastated-over-his-ouster-and-didnt-resign-voluntarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31725","title":{"rendered":"Former EPA chief and Trump-appointee Scott Pruitt is reportedly devastated over his ouster and didn’t resign voluntarily"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt is reportedly devastated after he was forced to resign.
\nPruitt was reportedly taken aback after White House chief of staff John Kelly told him it was time to leave
\nThe latest report contradicts President Donald Trump’s assertion that the decision “was very much up to” Pruitt.
\nWhite House officials had been urging Trump for months to fire Pruitt, after a wave of scandals threatened to embarrass the administration even further.<\/p>\n

Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt is reportedly devastated after he was forced to resign<\/a>, contradicting President Donald Trump’s account that the decision “was very much up to” Pruitt.<\/p>\n

The former EPA head reluctantly resigned on Thursday after White House chief of staff John Kelly informed him it was time to leave, two people familiar with the situation told Bloomberg<\/a>.See the rest of the story at Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n

NOW WATCH: Why the North Korea summit mattered even if it was ‘mostly a photo op’<\/a><\/p>\n

See Also:<\/p>\n

Scott Pruitt sent a bizarre, unapologetic resignation letter to Trump<\/a>Government watchdog group releases epic one-word statement after Scott Pruitt finally resigns<\/a>EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigns amid scandal<\/a><\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: Embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt reportedly lobbied Trump to fire Jeff Sessions so he could run the Justice Department<\/a><\/p>\n

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Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt is reportedly devastated after he was forced to resign. Pruitt was reportedly taken aback after White House chief of staff John Kelly told him it was time to leave The latest report contradicts President Donald Trump’s assertion that the decision “was very much up to” Pruitt. White House …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16023,16289,16290,338,16287,16288,15857],"class_list":["post-31725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-after","tag-chief","tag-former","tag-house","tag-pruitt","tag-scott","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/5b3feebd32245c1d008b4d98-2732-13661531073101.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}