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Sen. Whitehouse urges climate commission to probe Trump actions

January 6, 2021
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is calling for President-elect Joe Biden to investigate President Donald Trump’s “climate denial and obstruction,” arguing that the United States cannot just “move on” from Trump and arguing for the creation of a special presidential commission to “expose” the president’s actions and their “devastating” effects. Whitehouse says that Trump has engaged in a climate science denial and destruction campaign that “may prove to be the most insidious and systematic fraud in American history.” The senator outlined...


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