Trump says he has ‘open mind’ on climate change accord
Trump says he has ‘open mind’ on climate change accord
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would “keep an open mind” about whether to pull the United States out of a landmark multinational agreement on climate change.
Trump’s comments came at an on-the-record lunch with the publisher, editors and reporters of the New York Times, a meeting that was scheduled, canceled, and then reinstated by Trump after a dispute with the Times over the ground rules.
Trump opened the discussion with a list of grievances about the newspaper’s coverage of him, though he couched it in terms of wanting to improve the relationship.
Trump brushed aside questions about conflicts arising from his business dealings, declaring that “the law’s totally on my side, the president can’t have a conflict of interest.”
Trump offered a robust defense of his campaign chairman and newly appointed chief strategist, Stephen Bannon.