Hakeem Jeffries: Trump Lied to the American People When He Said Pulling out of Climate Deal Is Good for Jobs

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JEFFRIES: "Well, Donald Trump through hut his life has peddled in conspiracy theories and president of the United States unfortunately for us here in America and the rest of the civilized world he continues to do so. But apparently they just don’t want to acknowledge that he believes that climate change is a hoax but a he understands that most reasonable people throughout this country and the most reasonable people throughout this country and the world would be aghast at that characterization, particularly from someone who is sitting as the president in 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. Climate change is a reality. It has adverse consequences in terms of cop failure, potential famine, drought, extreme weather events such as superstorm Sandy that we experienced here in new York City and in the district that I represent, floods all over the country and in different parts of the world. We need to do something about it to make sure that we can leave behind a country and a planet that is in a good condition for our children and for our grandchildren. It’s also important that we do something about climate change for economic purposes, and that was one of the biggest lies that I would say the president put forth before the American people when he talked about him pulling out being good for jobs. No, he’ll actually undermine the economic capacity of the united States to be a leader in the green jobs economy."