Trump's climate claims: experts analyze Republican's energy policy remarks

Trump told North Dakota oil executives that they were standing at the 'forefront of a new energy revolution' powered by deregulation and protectionism

For his first major energy policy remarks, Donald Trump would quote, almost verbatim at times, from an op-ed published in the Grand Forks Herald earlier that morning. But Trump was not the author.

The byline belonged to local congressman Kevin Cramer, the longtime champion of his state's oil and gas industries. North Dakota has boomed and busted right along with the price of gas. Trump would start his speech by telling the state's oil executives that they were standing at the "forefront of a new energy revolution" powered by Trumpian deregulation and protectionism.