Trump repeats environment criticism of India in first Speech post WH exit

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ Former US President Donald Trump has repeated his criticism of India’s environmental record in his first speech since leaving the White House in defeat.

Speaking to a conservative group on Sunday, he attacked his successor Joe Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Change Agreement asserting that the US had “the cleanest air the cleanest water”, but it was accepting restrictions that would cost jobs and affect the economy while India, China and Russia were the polluters.

“What good does it do when we’re playing (by the rules), but China is not and Russia is not and India is not, so they are pouring fumes… and we’re trying to protect everything,” he said at the annual conference of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida.

“First of all, China doesn’t kick in for 10 years, Russia goes by an old standard which was not a clean standard and other countries, but we get hit right from the beginning when it costs hundreds of thousands and millions of jobs, it was a disaster,” he said.