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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn - report [View all]
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Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitches
Donald Trump dangled a brazen deal in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Bidens environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.
According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as remarkably blunt and transactional, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.
In front of more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administrations decision in January to pause new natural gas export permits which have been denounced as climate bombs.
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Trumps exhortation to the oil executives that they were wealthy enough to pour $1bn into his campaign war-chest, at the same time pledging a U-turn on Bidens efforts to combat the climate crisis, was immediately denounced on Wednesday by environmental groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation
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Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn - report [View all]
Uncle Joe
May 9
OP
One wonders if some thing other than natural is attempting to say some thing to those states
Traurigkeit
May 11
#37
My thoughts exactly. He wants to leave the world a better place for his children.
Ziggysmom
May 10
#25
"The Art of the Deal" by Donnie Dementia. Who needs inhibitions when the brain worms are telling you...
Hekate
May 10
#16
Do the oil companies really need Trump? They seem to be doing, well, alright.
twodogsbarking
May 10
#27
With the Citizens United debacle decision, they could do this and would anyone know?
Evolve Dammit
May 10
#28