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The new ad from the ostensibly free-market group America’s Future Fund appears devastating. “EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is embarrassing President Trump,” the 30-second web spot declares and ticks off some of Pruitt’s recent ethics and spending controversy.
“For the good of the country, Pruitt must go,” it concludes. It even pulls a clip of Trump, in his apprentice years, declaring, “You’re fired!” (AFF appears to have abandoned its 2016 opposition to Trump.)