Dana Bash: Trump's “mad libs for conservatives” speech on Paris Climate agreement “clearly written by” Steve Bannon

Bash: “It was almost like mad libs for conservatives,” “and it was clearly written by the Steve Bannon and Stephen Millers of the world”

From the June 1 edition of CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper:

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JAKE TAPPER (HOST): And Dana, I know a line that the president said that struck a lot of us was when he cast the Paris agreement as quote, “a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries.”

DANA BASH: Right, because the whole theme against President Obama during both of the elections against him was that he was a Democrat who wants to redistribute wealth. That is a buzz word, a signal to conservatives that we got your back and we're going to make sure that sort of the big bad Democrats who want to socialize and globalize and do everything that would hurt you and your jobs won't happen.

And there were a series of those buzz words, it was almost like mad libs for conservatives, this speech, and it was a long one. The thing -- one of the things that struck me is after all of the reporting that we've done about the discussions, and the debates, and the pressure that he got from his daughter, from his -- Ivanka, from his son-in-law Jared, from his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson -- there wasn't an olive branch in here.

It's like those people were walled-off in the writing of this speech, and it was clearly written by the Steve Bannon and Stephen Millers of the world, and there wasn't really anything that I heard that was even remotely -- aside from the idea that he might try to redo this deal and renegotiate this deal if he can.

Previously:

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