AP FACT CHECK: 11 Trump climate goofs and 1 correct claim

 

November 30, 2018



WASHINGTON (AP) — It's elemental. President Donald Trump got his facts about earth, water, air and fire wrong as he and his aides spent a week attacking the White House climate report.

In interviews and off-the-cuff remarks, public statements and briefings, the president and the White House made a dozen discernible claims about the National Climate Assessment that the White House quietly issued on the day after Thanksgiving. Only one was supported by facts.

Here are 11 ways that the president bungled the basics of climate change, the Earth and of science itself. At the end of this list, y...



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