In a Wednesday interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington governor and longshot 2020 Democrat candidate Jay Inslee told NBC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden that President Trump’s stance on global warming is “treason.”
A partial transcript is as follows:
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN: Last night President Trump was interviewed by Piers Morgan and he said he was just shocked, amazed that Prince Charles cared so much about climate change. After all, he was a prince and he didn’t need to worry about the future like that. So it’s a serious question. There are those, including the president of this country, who are climate change deniers. Is it worth having the debate with them, the scientific debate with them? Or do you just skip over them and go to the people who believe?
GOV JAY INSLEE: First off, a lot more people, despite the constant lies—and, by the way, we ought to be aggrieved morally by this. I was thinking—I was shaving this morning thinking about what we were going to talk about today.
The fact that we have the elected leader of the United States of America who willfully lied to us about something that is an existential threat ought to be something that we are outraged about.
We should not become inured to this or passive about this. If we had a president of the United States who told us that the communist threat was just a hoax perpetrated by the Council of Foreign Relations—you know, that would have been if not treasonous, at least something that—a moral abomination.
And we cannot allow ourselves to become accustomed to this.
This is a moral outrage. It is a gross failure of the commander in chief. And I don’t use the word treason very often, but when someone lies to the American people, when the entire intelligence community is telling the president of the United States that this is a national security threat of the first dimension and he is willing to lie to the American people, I don’t think we should take this lying down. I don’t think it should go without comment.
And I think people should raise their voices about it, as I am here. And if you want to know why some people still deny climate change, well, the president of the United States is telling them to deny climate change. It’s really not really their fault. And so I think that we need to be a little more vocal about this, number one.
Number two, he is failing. He’s failing in many ways. He’s failing on trade policy. He’s failing to unite the country. But he’s failing to fool people, because in the last twelve months the number of Americans who believe climate change deserves a commonsense response has gone up twelve percent, despite his lies and his tweets.
And the reason this is happening is you just can’t ignore seeing a town of twenty-five thousand in Paradise, California, burn to the ground. I went there at night and drove around at night with Jerry Brown’s security forces. And it felt like a post-apocalypse Hollywood movie.
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What total idiot Inslee a member of the Stupid Jackass Party(Liberal Democrat) just how can they have elect this jerk as a Govenor Obama commited acts of Treason but t his Bean rain prefered to look the other way He is dumber then a stump
The best thing this arrogant jack ass could do is save the world from his hyper venting CO2 exhales .
Just one look at this chimp in a suit and you know he isn’t going anywhere .
I know it’s so sad for some that Trump got elected but just look at the clowns the Democrats have lining up like fledglings , beaks open for Steyer cash .
a guy who thinks he’s Spartacus , an American Indian impostor, and a guy who’s family was bought by China .
Losers .
This is a perfect example how democrats are often guilty of the very thing they accuse others of. He accused President Trump of telling lies. What about his lies that climate change is causing increased wild fires, hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes, and floods. He accuses President Trump of treason on climate change. Yet supporting immigration where there is harm to environment, loss of American jobs to the immigrants, and additional costs such as English as a Second Language programs, that is treason.
And according to tje Eco-Wackos the whole earth was going to be dead by now ever since some cracked urns got together on the first Earth Day their lies about Pestisides,and Smog the Lnad is much more cleaner then it was back in the so called Good Old Days before Air Conditoners Screen Doors and Windows and Electric fans long hot summers and long cold winters