In a book published in 1997, Trump claimed that asbestos is “100 percent safe, once applied.” He went on to explain, “I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal.” In 2018, his EPA announced that it would only evaluate new uses of asbestos and no longer consider the risks of asbestos already in the environment.

Newsweek – Donald Trump called asbestos poisoning a mob-led conspiracy, now his EPA wouldn’t evaluate asbestos already in homes.
The New York Times – The Chemical Industry Scores a Big Win at the E.P.A.