Trump maintains that climate change is a “hoax” and has withdrawn the U.S. from the main global climate treaty. The Trump administration says scientists are wrong about the dangers of climate change and that the regulations hurt industry and slow the economy. At the time, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who is close to Trump, posted on social media that Haugh and his deputy “have been disloyal to President Trump. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has refused to release all the Epstein files to the public as Congress required when it passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Fifty percent of American adults think Trump “was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein,” while only 29% think he wasn’t.

Source: The Guardian February 13, 2026 08:01 UTC