WASHINGTON – The pressure on President Donald Trump to remain in the Paris climate accord came from all sides. On Thursday, in a Rose Garden ceremony, the president announced his plan to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord. Kushner, a senior White House adviser, agreed with the president that the Paris agreement was a bad deal. Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Nick Ayers, a senior strategist for Vice President Mike Pence, both supported the idea. One senior White House official characterized disappointing European allies as “a secondary benefit” of Trump’s decision to withdraw.

Source: National Post June 02, 2017 11:37 UTC