Steve Bannon and Scott Pruitt beat Kushner, Tillerson and Ivanka on Paris Agreem

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by Sarah Westwood, W. James Antle III | Jun 2, 2017

Steve Bannon and Scott Pruitt beat Kushner, Tillerson and Ivanka on Paris Agreement

President Trump sided Thursday with the members of his administration who wanted the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and against influential voices who wanted him to stay or renegotitate it from within.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt had become a leading voice for withdrawing completely from the climate pact. He was the only Cabinet member to speak Thursday after Trump's appearance in the Rose Garden.

Ivanka Trump, the president's eldest daughter, and Jared Kushner, her husband and a top White House adviser, both reportedly pushed for Trump to remain in the deal. Neither attended Trump's speech on Thursday, although the White House said their absence was not related to the fact that the president decided against their advice when it came to the Paris agreement.

Various White House aides and lawmakers had split themselves among the three camps as internal debates dragged on for weeks longer than initially anticipated.

Twenty-two Republican senators — including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — sent Trump a letter urging him to ditch the deal last month.

Trump aligned himself with the conservative critics of the Paris Agreement in the end, consistent with his campaign promises last year. This group includes free-market activists who disapprove of resolving environmental problems through heavy-handed government regulations, Republicans from energy-producing states and climate change skeptics.

"The fact that the Paris deal hamstrings the United States while empowering some of the world's top polluting countries should dispel any doubt as to the real reason why foreign lobbyists wished to keep our magnificent country tied up and bound down by this agreement," Trump added. "It's to give their country an economic edge over the United States."

The president vowed to protect the coal country states that voted for him last year, protesting, "The current agreement effectively blocks the development of clean coal in America."

"I love the coal miners," Trump said at one point in an aside.

"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," he declared. Critics pointed out that Trump actually lost Pittsburgh in November, but his win in Pennsylvania helped seal his Electoral College majority.

But on the Paris Agreement, Trump listened to administration officials who advised him to keep a campaign promise and spoke up for a critical group of his working-class voters.

"We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore, and they won't be," Trump vowed. "They won't be."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/steve-bannon-and-scott-pruitt-beat-kushner-tillerson-and-ivanka-on-paris-agreement/article/2624758

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Scarborough: Steve Bannon is the real president

 "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough repeatedly called Steve Bannon "President Bannon" on his show Friday: "TIME magazine was right: Steve Bannon is the president of the United States."

"He has gone in. Donald Trump doesn't know anything about policy. Donald Trump doesn't know anything about politics. Donald Trump doesn't know anything about anything. He can get up and give a good speech. You listen to him talk about any topic and he wanders from sentence to sentence to sentence. So Steve Bannon is now the President of the United States. And that was more clear yesterday than ever before."

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1lemIqLyc[/youtube]

https://www.axios.com/scarborough-steve-bannon-is-the-real-president-2430129219.html

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Wilbur Ross: Europeans Angry About Losing ‘Free Ride’ from Climate Accord That Was ‘Terrible Deal’ for America

“I think the economic case is quite clear,” said Secretary Ross. “This was a terrible business deal that was engineered, not on behalf of the U.S.’s best interests.”

“This was a deal that would have cost the economy $3 trillion over the next several decades. By 2040, our economy would have lost six-and-a-half million industrial sector jobs – almost half of which, 3.1 million, were in the manufacturing sector. That doesn’t make any sense to me,” he said.

“It also doesn’t make sense that we were scheduled to put out a lot of money up front, but meanwhile, China would be able to increase its emissions every year for the next 13 years,” he continued. “That’s not a balanced arrangement. India made their participation contingent on receiving billions of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries. That’s not a balanced thing, either.”

“It makes no sense as an economic deal. This is sloganeering in its worst fashion,” he declared.

SiriusXM host Joel Pollak brought up the argument from critics of Trump’s decision, such as California Gov. Jerry Brown, that withdrawing from the Paris accords will eliminate a large number of “green” jobs.

Ross responded by noting the figures on job losses due to the Paris accords “are net of whatever gains there might have been in green power.”

“The reality is, in a lot of green power, particularly the solar, a lot of those jobs are, in fact, being created in China, not here,” he said. “It’s really a question of where are you creating jobs, not so much of are you creating them.”

http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/06/02/wilbur-ross-europeans-angry-losing-free-ride-climate-accord-terrible-deal-america/

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This whole climate change / global warming scam is just another scheme to bring America down to the economic level of Botswana. With carbon tax / credits and rises in energy costs and sending our money to third world countries it would not be long before we were crushed economically.

Thank God for President Trump!!!