Posted on 04/17/2020 5:42:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State John Kerry charged Thursday that the Trump administration was using the coronavirus pandemic as a cover to weaken key environmental regulations that will “kill more Americans.”
“It’s a tragedy. It’s stupid. It’s absolutely counterproductive,” Kerry said during an interview on Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast when asked about the Trump administration’s controversial decision that day to loosen rules on the release of mercury and other toxic chemicals from coal and oil-fired power plants.
“George Orwell never conceived of quite such a topsy-turvy situation,” he added. “And I don’t think anybody’s ever dreamt we’d have a president who’s quite such an enemy of common sense and facts and science.”
Kerry, who recently launched a bipartisan coalition to fight climate change, made the comments during a lengthy interview in which he also lashed out at President Trump’s decision to freeze funding for the World Health Organization. Kerry called it “the last thing” the president should be doing.
But, he added, the WHO should actually be “strengthened” with more funding if the United States wants to be prepared for the next pandemic. “This is the moment they need to be fully funded, and even plussed up in terms of their budget,” Kerry said. “And when the president pulls out support for the WHO, he’s not just hurting them immediately in terms of their budget. … He is hurting us, because the World Health Organization is critical to managing the health crises of the world. And if you don’t want the next pandemic to hurt us, the last thing you ought to do is be defunding the World Health Organization.”
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We’re going through a national crisis and this is the fecal matter the left offers us?
The statement is idiocy as well.
What a dumbass.
Perfect candidate to be a Democrat Senator - or even president.
Oh, wait..........
John Kerry: New Trump environmental rules will ‘kill more Americans’>>>>>>>
Translation:
John Kerry: New Trump environmental rules will ‘kill more Democrats and Leftists’
I see the DNC has issued the drones the “kill more Americans” talking point” for use on any occasion.
I find it pretty hilarious to see John Kerry say: “It’s a tragedy. It’s stupid. It’s absolutely counterproductive,”
Says the traitor Iran’s butt boy.
“John Kerry: New Trump environmental rules will ‘kill more Democrats and Leftists’”
But, but Democrats and leftists are not Americans.
“because the World Health Organization is critical to managing the health crises of the world”
Says it all doesn’t it
Wasn’t he in Vietnam?
Who can forget this moment in Obama era environmental consciousness?
would like to see him as one of many in a perp walk
Stated by john Kerry who seems never to have met a mass murdering dictator he did not like. Mass murdering means people really died. Environmental models use fake science to show people will die in the future to scare people into giving up their freedom.
Don’t the state’s have the power to establish rules to protect their citizens?
Exactly what I was thinking. Businesses are destroyed. Savings are wiped out, millions of families without jobs......Kerry and Pelosi epitomize the rat party. ....$25mil to the freaking JFK Center my eye. Really hate these people.
Lurch can’t keep his mouth shut. Impossible!
You can always count on John Kerry to be on the Side of Communists, Dictators and Terrorists and in direct opposition to the American People.
Shut up John. Grandstanding isn’t allowed during the shutdown.
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