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Donald Trump's stated views on global warming have changed over the past seven years or so (we'll leave it to pundits to judge whether they've evolved or devolved in that time), as exemplified, on the one hand, by his endorsement of a 2009 letter urging the U.S. government to invest in a clean energy economy and pass legislation addressing the immediate challenge of climate change, and, on the other, by his November 2012 tweet stating that The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. (Contrary to rumor, Trump did not attempt to delete that tweet years after the fact.) Trump's current position, as clarified by his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, in a 27 September 2016 interview with CNN's Alisyn Camerota, is that climate change exists but is naturally occurring. While Conway pointedly evaded questions about Trump's previously claiming that global warming is a hoax, the candidate himself adamantly denied having made such claims during his first debate against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016: But Trump has, in fact, said just that. Here, from the public record, in his own words, are instances of Donald Trump calling global warming a hoax (and more colorful things):
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