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Ted Cruz: “Climate change was the excuse for communists to seize…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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And he wrote this 17 page analysis ahead of next month's United Nations Climate Change conference in Brazil, hoping to shift funding away from climate initiatives towards other endeavors that he now believes are more important. Look, I don't … Climate change was the excuse for communists to seize control of our government. … about follow the money. Money and power. It was a lot of money, a lot of money about it. Power. (29:57–30:00)

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Asserts that climate change was used as a pretext for communists to take control of the government.

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