When you’re on one side of the “political divide” and you see a lot of bad stuff about the president of the other side, it’s easy to think, “how the hell does anyone support this person?” However, it’s much harder for someone to turn on their “party leader,” especially if they have white hair and have been a dedicated member of that party for their whole adult life.
The Trump administration will announce today that the words “climate change” have been deleted from the National Security Statement, overruling advice from his own advisers, including secretary of defense James Mattis.
With the internal White House debate over whether to remain in or pull out of the Paris Agreement heating up, a bipartisan group of 20 retired senior military officers and national security experts have signed companion joint letters urging US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis to lead on addressing the security implications of climate change.
It looks like President Donald Trump and EPA chief Scott Pruitt just got schooled on climate change by Defense Secretary James Mattis.
