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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John Kerry is such an old has been. Nobody in their right mind listens to this Iran worshiping idiot. Go away John Kerry, permanently. You add nothing of intelligence to the discussion.
As long as the deathtoll is on liberals I have no objections!
Yep. Just think if we had spent 10% of the money we have wasted on “global warming” for pandemic research.
Real problems put fake problems in perspective. This climate change crap is the primary focus of global entities to include the WHO.
And I don’t think
The only part of his speech he got right.
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