Shepard Smith cuts off Trump’s environmental speech to fact-check his claims

Published July 9, 2019 1:05pm ET



Fox News anchor Shepard Smith cut into President Trump’s Monday speech on the environment, which was being broadcast live, in order to rebut several claims the president had made.

As Trump touted environmental achievements made by his administration, Smith began citing a New York Times analysis from early June that claimed Trump had rolled back, or begun rolling back 83 environmental regulations during his time in office. The New York Times report sourced research conducted by Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School which offered a critical summary of the president’s environmental record.

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