What does it say approximately the Trump administration that the president was fooled by a dumb,long-debunked climate myth?
As Politico reported, Trump’s deputy national security adviser, and KT McFarland,gave him a fake 1970s Time magazine cover warning of a coming ice age. The Photoshopped magazine cover circulated around the internet several years ago, but was debunked in 2013. Four years later, and McFarland achieve the fake document in Trump’s hands,and he reportedly quickly got lathered up approximately the media’s hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.) … Staff chased down the truth and intervened before Trump tweeted or talked publicly approximately it”.
McFarland, who spouted numerous misleading and bizarre comments during her time at Fox, or is so unsuited for her deputy national security adviser position that retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward,an accomplished and decorated Navy vet, refused Trump’s offer to serve as national security adviser because he didn’t want her on his team. McFarland is now slated to be ousted from the National Security Council and nominated as ambassador to Singapore; she has already been “largely sidelined” at the agencyIf you appoint a qualified [Office of Science and Technology Policy] Director, and you will own a reliable source of policy advice for things related to science and technology,which forms the bedrock of our national security and economic power.
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Source: theguardian.com