


Pruitt would ask members of his security detail, the report said. “Can you guys use that magic button to get us through traffic?” Mr. Pruitt with the lights and sirens going, in the wrong direction into oncoming traffic, to pick up Mr. Among the incidents cited in the report was a 2017 trip in which a special agent drove Mr. The security officers said they knew this was a violation of federal policies and “endangered public safety,” the report said. WASHINGTON - Scott Pruitt, while in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration, repeatedly pressured his federal security officers to drive at excessive and sometimes dangerous speeds on routine trips, with sirens and emergency lights on, because he had a habit of running late, according to a federal report released on Thursday.
