Trump Official's Lies EXPOSED After Humiliating Fact-Check
May 17, 2026
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as posted by the channelDonald Trump's interior secretary Doug Burgum exposed as a low energy fraud after his talking points blow up in his face at hearing. John Iadarola and Jackson White break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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On renewable energy, Interior’s Burgum offers a case study in willful ignorance
"Donald Trump has railed against clean energy technology for years, and when targeting solar and wind power, the president has routinely repeated a familiar mistake: After sundown or when the wind isn’t blowing, those energy sources are practically useless.
Unfortunately, he’s not the only Republican who’s expressed confusion about this. The New Republic reported:
The secretary of the interior should presumably know how solar power generation works. On Wednesday, Doug Burgum showed that he does not."
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