Trump is a cynical climate denialist
by digby
That "climategate" scandal was on of the first examples of how hacking could be used to sow confusion and disinformation. Trump was on it.
Dylan Matthews at Vox investigated his "evolution" on the subject:
Long before he even declared his run for the White House, Donald Trump has been issuing periodic statements affirming his belief that man-made global warming is a myth, meant to stifle US manufacturing. While as recently as 2009 he was cosigning letters with other business leaders calling for “meaningful and effective measures to control climate change,” since about 2011 he has been tweeting his climate denialism regularly, a denialism that culminated in his exiting the Paris climate agreement on Thursday.
Matthews found dozens of tweets on the subject from 2011 on, when Trump decided he was going to run for president.
They are all just as stupid as these:
It's not like it isn't clear exactly what he's doing. He's pimping the white nationalist, alt-right, America First GFY Breitbart agenda and using this issue to do it.
It's basically "the USA has the biggest ... hands on this plant and we do what we want, when we want and if you don't like it STFU and get out of the way. "
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