https://www.foxnews.com/media/al-gore-warns-about-trumps-jihad-clean-energy-transition
Gore has used heated rhetoric about Trump, political opponents
By Lindsay Kornick Fox News
Former Vice President Al Gore accused President Donald Trump in a new interview of launching a “jihad” against the renewable energy transition.
In an interview with Axios, Gore said Trump was more “loaded for bear this time around” in his opposition to clean energy compared to his first presidential term. He added that outside forces pushing back against Trump have also grown stronger, particularly outside the U.S.
“If you look at it on a global basis, we get a distortion field here in the U.S. now with Trump’s jihad against the sustainability transition,” Gore said. It’s unclear when Gore made the remarks, but Axios published the comments on Wednesday.
Gore’s published use of the word “jihad” comes after Turning Point USA founder and conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week. Kirk’s death reignited conversations over the role political rhetoric plays in violence and motivated calls to “turn the temperature down” in politics by leaders like House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
Gore is no stranger to using controversial rhetoric against his political opponents. In April, he compared the Trump administration to Nazi Germany.
“I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement,” Gore said. “It was uniquely evil, full stop. I get it. But there are important lessons from the history of that emergent evil.”
Gore went on to cite a German philosopher’s “moral autopsy” of Hitler’s Third Reich following the end of World War II.
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