EPA’s Very Own Scandal Boy Is Back

Guess who’s again!!!!

Disgraced former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt launched an official marketing campaign advert for his bid for U.S. Senate on Thursday, his first official foray right into a crowded race to interchange climate-denier extraordinaire James Inhofe of their house state of Oklahoma. Titled, fairly actually, “I’m Back,” the video is a doozy.

In the advert, Pruitt begins by quoting Winston Churchill, as each right-wing faculty debate goober is taught to do. “‘You’ve got enemies? Good! It means that you stood up for something,’” Scott says, holding a newspaper. “As a member of President Trump’s cabinet, I had enemies.”

Given how scores of Republican operatives and officers have come out of the woodwork in latest months to speak about how a lot they assume Scott Pruitt completely sucks, one might be forgiven for pondering that the GOP at giant is who he’s speaking about right here. (Among Pruitt’s haters is, sadly for Scott, Inhofe himself, who instructed reporters in March he was “not his biggest fan.”)

But no! Scott is aiming to indicate you on this advert that it’s the liberal media who’re in opposition to him. “The New York Times. The Washington Post—they tried to cancel me. But guess what? I’m back,” he declares, as he dramatically tosses the newspaper he’s holding into the trash can. (He in all probability ought to have recycled that newspaper, however given his monitor file of just about single-handedly obliterating the surroundings throughout his brief tenure at EPA, is it a shock that he didn’t?)

The video goes on to clarify how Biden is “undoing the progress we made during the Trump administration,” as Scott pitches himself for Senate on what looks as if a fairly rote right-wing platform, together with guarantees to “protect the unborn,” “restore energy independence,” and “protect free speech.”

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All in all, it’s fairly bland so far as marketing campaign adverts go. (Pro tip: If you’re working as a Republican, it is advisable to shoot one thing and make obscure dying threats.) With Pruitt’s scandal-ridden historical past and seemingly abysmal assist from his personal celebration in a crowded race, it’s maybe not stunning that he form of…glosses over what truly occurred throughout the 12 months and alter he was in Washington. Anyone making an assault advert in opposition to him, however, will have a lot of fabric to work with, like his bizarre obsession with acquiring a used mattress from Trump’s resort, or his spending tons of of hundreds of {dollars} on round the clock safety element, or his resolution to construct a soundproof room in an workplace that already had one, or possibly even that point he used government resources to get his spouse a Chick-fil-A franchise. Pruitt possibly ought to have clarified that when he says the Times and Post “canceled” him, he means they revealed exposes about how he made his safety element drive round in search of a particular lotion for him from the Ritz-Carlton—all on taxpayer {dollars}, in fact.

The advert is interspersed with previous footage of Pruitt with Trump, so it’s clear that his marketing campaign will likely be leaning laborious on that affiliation. Unfortunately for him, an precise endorsement from the Big Wet Former President doesn’t appear assured. E&E News reported last month that Pruitt, thirsty for that candy, candy Trump approval, put in a name to him in March as he explored the potential for working for Senate. Trump’s response apparently left one thing to be desired: a former administration official stated the President gave Pruitt a “brushoff.”

Ouch! Well, good luck with that endorsement, Scott previous buddy. In the interim, like Big Gas and Big Dairy, you possibly can all the time simply cry in regards to the liberal left canceling you as an alternative.