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Donald Trump Is a Hack Donald Trump Is A Hack Trump steals material from right-wing fringe groups for his standup routine on the Green New Deal Download this research in MS Word format here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=14XnXzuxGrxedbh7C5-OehvFUFs1aBT-t We all know that Donald Trump can’t take a joke, but is he stealing them too? In front of red hat rally crowds or other friendly audiences like CPAC and the NRCC, Trump loves to riff on the Green New Deal. He has a well-practiced stage routine that he can take from gig to gig without having to get to worry about remembering pesky little things like facts. Since he’ll never venture in front of a tough crowd, it doesn’t matter at all that nothing he says about the Green New Deal is true. While fact checkers can spin their wheels all day writing about what Donald Trump got wrong on stage, there’s a whole support team of fossil-fuel- backed science deniers that manage to stay behind the curtain feeding ideas to The Donald and amplifying his message. Here, we take a look backstage at the sources behind Trump’s top 5 lies on the Green New Deal. Climate Power 2020 Donald Trump Is A Hack 1 1. TILTING AT WINDMILLS Look, we get why the Donald’s hair has a problem with wind, but what’s with Trump’s tirades against wind energy? Trump’s bizarre (and wildly untrue) talking points against wind energy go back many years, but they also just happened to coincide with a big push against wind energy by fossil-fuel- backed special interests. One group with deep ties to Charles Koch and Big Oil has been right there all along, promoting the same anti-wind conspiracy theorists that caught Donald Trump’s attention back in 2012. Now they are defending his ridiculous claims and backing up his anti-wind messages in the style of children’ s cartoons (know your audience, I guess). HERE’S WHAT TRUMP SAID Excerpt from a transcript of Trump at an NRCC fundraiser, April 2, 2019: Hillary wanted to put up wind. Wind. If you -- if you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer. [Transcript | Video] Excerpt from a transcript of Trump’s remarks at CPAC, March 2, 2019: No planes. No energy. [Laughter] When the wind stops blowing, that's the end of your electric. [Laughter] Let's hurry up. "Darling" -- "Darling, is the wind blowing today? I'd like to watch television, darling." [Laughter] No, but it's true. [Transcript | Video] Excerpt from White House Transcript of Trump’s remarks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, FL, Dec 22, 2019: We’ll have an economy based on wind. I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody I know. It’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly — very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured tremendous — if you’re into this — tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we Climate Power 2020 Donald Trump Is A Hack 2 have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air, their air, everything — right? So they make these things and then they put them up. And if you own a house within vision of some of these monsters, your house is worth 50 percent of the price. They’re noisy. They kill the birds. You want to see a bird graveyard? You just go. Take a look. A bird graveyard. Go under a windmill someday. You’ll see more birds than you’ve ever seen ever in your life. [Transcript | Video] HERE’S WHY HE’S WRONG Windmills don’t cause cancer. Period. They are also one of the cheapest sources of electricity in the United States. Wind energy supports 24,000 manufacturing jobs right here in the United States with 500 factories in 42 states. Wind energy also brings value to the communities where projects are located. Most clean energy jobs are local by nature, and support a range of secondary jobs throughout the communities they serve. In 2018, the wind sector alone paid $1 billion to state/local governments and private landowners in tax and lease payments. Factcheck.org called out Trump for overblowing the risks of wind turbines to birds. Yes, birds are sometimes killed by turbines, but maybe only five per turbine per year. Even the Audubon Society supports well-sited wind projects because sticking with fossil fuels is a far worse option. Climate change will lead to total extinction for one in six bird species. Click here to get the facts from our research team Climate Power 2020 Donald Trump Is A Hack 3 HERE’S WHERE HE GETS HIS MATERIAL It has been well-documented that Trump’s long feud with wind energy traces back to his fight to keep wind turbines away from his coastal golf property in Aberdeen, Scotland, but where does he get his talking points to support his self-serving arguments? Thanks to documents published by the Government of Scotland, we now know that in July of 2012, Trump's office forwarded a press release from Sherri Lange of the North American Platform Against Wind (NA-PAW) raising questions about possible health concerns surrounding wind turbines and calling for a moratorium on wind development. NA-PAW claims to represent 77 local anti-wind organizations in the United States. Around that exact same time, fossil-fuel-backed groups were ramping up pressure against renewable energy incentives in congress, and a confidential memo leaked outlining a plan hatched in 2011 to bring together NIMBY groups including Sherri Lange’s NA-PAW to fight wind energy. We’ll never know to what extent fossil-fuel-funded front groups may have played a role in organizing anti-wind groups like Sherri Lange’s NA-PAW, but we can clearly see how the Institute for Energy Resources (IER) - which was reportedly founded by oil billionaire Charles Koch and has been funded by Koch, Exxon Mobil, and the American Petroleum Institute - has been amplifying their messages. Sherri Lange has been a regular author, publishing 31 anti-wind-energy articles (links in the research below) on the Institute for Energy Resources’ blog MasterResource.org. John Droz, one of the architects behind the leaked plan to coordinate anti-wind groups also posts regular anti-wind newsletters on IER’s blog. After Trump was ridiculed for his comments about wind turbines causing cancer, IER was there to try to justify the ridiculous comments with a blog post from none other than Sherri Lange. That was just the beginning though, as IER’s advocacy arm, the American Energy Alliance began buying Facebook ads to attack the Green New Deal parroting the bogus arguments favored by the smaller anti-wind groups and featured in Donald Trump’s campaign speeches. Climate Power 2020 Donald Trump Is A Hack 4 Click here to see the research section below for more details on these ads and their fossil fuel backers Climate Power 2020 Donald Trump Is A Hack 5 2. ONE HUNDRED TRILLION DOLLARS? TRUMP GOES FULL DR. EVIL Trump spends way too much time on Twitter, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that his talking point about the cost of the Green New Deal actually began as wild speculation in a Twitter thread. Actual economists, experts, and fact checkers have widely dismissed this claim HERE’S WHAT TRUMP SAID Excerpts from a transcript of Trump at a campaign rally in El Paso, TX, February 11, 2019: They want to take away your car, reduce the value of your home, and put millions of Americans out of work, spend $100 trillion, which by the way, there's no such thing as $100 trillion, you have to spend $100 trillion -- And remember this, no other country except us is going to do it. That's a little problem, too. [Transcript | Video] Excerpt from a transcript of Trump at CPAC 2019, March 2, 2019: But perhaps nothing is more extreme than the Democrats’ plan to completely takeover American energy and completely destroy America’s economy through their new $100 trillion Green New Deal. [Transcript | Video] HERE’S WHY HE’S WRONG Let’s just start by acknowledging that the guy who originally posted the $100 trillion estimate on Twitter admitted in the same thread that he couldn’t actually calculate a real number. Other Republicans have been citing an analysis by the American Action Forum (AAF), a right wing think tank and sister organization of Karl Rove’s American Action Network (AAN), who tried to set a $93 trillion cost for the Climate Power 2020 Donald Trump Is A Hack 6 Green New Deal. AAF’s $93 trillion figure is bolstered by non-environmental parts of the proposal, including $36 for universal healthcare and up to $44.6 trillion for a jobs guarantee. PolitiFact called that a “flabby” estimate and gave a statement by Senator Joni Ernst using that number a “false” rating. Politico called the $93 trillion price tag “bogus,” arguing the think tank’s analysis “made huge assumptions” about the implementation of the plan and failed to distinguish between government and private-sector spending.
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