Trump’s EPA Chief Agrees on Fox News that Climate Change is a ‘Con Job’

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin agreed on Thursday with President Donald Trump’s assessment that climate change is a “con job.”

Trump made the comments during his marathon speech to the United Nations General Assembly. While criticizing the UN over a number of issues, the president referred to climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” Trump also slammed the UN member countries for their handling of immigration, claiming their countries were “going to hell.”

Asked by Brian Kilmeade for his thoughts on Trump’s climate change stance, Zeldin completely agreed, saying:

The president is absolutely right; and we’ve seen in the name of climate change, these left wing policies willing to cause extreme economic pain for people who can least afford it. We’ve seen in the name of climate justice, grants to $50 million to Climate Justice Alliance. They say that climate justice runs through a free Palestine.

In the name of environmental justice, they will have tens of billions of dollars go to their well-connected left wing former Obama and Biden officials and Democratic donors, rather than directly towards environmental remediation. And they’re willing to suffocate out entire sectors of our energy economy, and that caused the loss of jobs, higher energy costs. So President Trump is absolutely right. It’s something that with eyes wide open, the Trump mandate is being implemented all year long at the Trump EPA and across the Trump administration. And the rest of the world is taking notice because they’re having some of the same problems in their own country.

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