Old_Trapper70
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One of the first things that tyrants do when in power is eliminate the opposing press, and the Intelligentsia. Obviously Trump feels threatened by those more intelligent then he (and that would include my dog), and them replace them with those who know nothing just as he knows nothing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/...rod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=1
"A spokesman for the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate, as part of the wide net it plans to cast. “The administrator believes we should have people on this board who understand the impact of regulations on the regulated community,” said the spokesman, J. P. Freire."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/...rod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=1
"A spokesman for the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate, as part of the wide net it plans to cast. “The administrator believes we should have people on this board who understand the impact of regulations on the regulated community,” said the spokesman, J. P. Freire."