Biden: Trump at odds with most Americans on climate change

As vice-president Biden, supported former President Barack Obama’s efforts to take part in the Paris accord and fight the effects of climate change.

On Wednesday, he also underscored the key significance for the U.S. of European security and the trans-Atlantic alliance.

“I know at this moment there are questions about what kind of leadership the world can expect from the United States of America, going forward,” Biden said. “But I want to be very clear that there is still in the United States of America a strong bipartisan consensus, especially in the United States Congress, that European security is vital to U.S. security.”

“The United States has had moments of turning inwards in the past. But we’ve always overcome them, just as we will overcome this,” he said.

“History has proven that the defence of free nations in Europe has always, always, always, been in America’s best interests and is America’s fight.”

Speaking at the same event, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte described the Trump administration as still being on a “learning curve.”

“We now have a president who has literally no government experience and I’m not sure yet appreciates the difference between governmental work and private sector work,” he said. “The real question we all face, looking at this now from a United States perspective: is just how long is just how long is this learning curve going to be? And in the end, is he really going to learn?”

Biden met later Wednesday with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

The Associated Press

by Canadian Press

Biden: Trump at odds with most Americans on climate change

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