Rome: Scott Pruitt dines at 5-star restaurant with Cardinal under investigation for child sex abuse.
Credit, as requested: the lyin' New York Times.
Brought to my attention by: losin' Pulitzer Prize winner David Fahrenthold of the failin' Washington Post. The failin' Washington Post is owned by cheatin' Jeff Bezos.
Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold
During trip to Italy, SCOTT PRUITT dined at a 5-star restaurant with a Cardinal who is a climate change skeptic, even though @EPA staff knew the Cardinal was under investigation for child sex abuse. But they omitted the Cardinal's name from schedules released under FOIA. THREAD:
FOLLOW ALONG WITH US HERE, as we walk through a FASCINATING collection of documents The NYT has pulled together about a certain dinner in Rome that EPA's Scott Pruitt had last June with Cardinal Pell, who is now facing sexual abuse charges. (PLEASE CREDIT NYT )@LFFriedman
Dinner at La Terrazza is not cheap. It costs $240 per person, before wine and other stuff for the tasting menu. Pruitt, his chief of staff and senior political adviser were there, along with Leonard Leo, of the Federalist Society, Cardinal Pell, among others.
Here are a few more documents. FOUR different calendars that have been put out by the EPA covering this day. None of them mention that Cardinal Pell was at the dinner. Here is the FIRST