Exhibit 3B, 2012 to 2020: Before and after his election, President Trump tried many times to convince the rest of the world that climate change was a hoax. For example, on November 6, 2012, he claimed "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive" - despite the fact that the first warning that burning fossil fuels would warm the planet was by a famous Nobel Prize-winning physicist in the 1800s. The overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change was a reality was pointed out to him by White House officials, yet his attempts to prevent any action continued. He stated that he had the best instincts for science and they told him that tens of thousands of scientists in the field were wrong, and he made policy based on that. However, the US government's willful dismissal of scientific warnings of the danger was widespread, with many members of Congress voting repeatedly to do nothing or make the problem worse - and some of them used the same argument that climate change was a hoax by scientists.
Exhibit 3C, June 2017: the Secretary of Energy publicly, and falsely, stated that CO2 emissions were not the primary driver of climate change.
Given the time, we will present our evidence regarding the remaining four charges when we reconvene tomorrow. . .
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