Rep. Paul Tonko said that President Trump committed “borderline criminal negligence” in dismissing climate change science during his visit to Europe this week.

“When the leader of the nation and free world is willing to broadcast total rejection of climate science and unawareness of what’s going on around us, we are tarnishing the image of a nation,” Tonko, D-N.Y., told the Washington Examiner. “It’s borderline criminal negligence.”

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