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 Biden’s 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 administration’s decision in January to pause new natural gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.
“You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the Post, citing an unnamed dinner attendee.
What a difficult choice I have come general election /s
Nothing like a good old fashioned quid pro quo resulting in the permanent destruction of the environment for an elderly sociopath who won’t be around to see the world burn, but hey…at least he won’t serve his final days on earth in jail.
Even Trump’s legacy is bankrupt.
If it’s legal to openly state this from a former president and possible future president, then you need to change your laws asap. Has to be born in america to even be able to become president, but openly admitting to accept bribery is fine?
Who’s next? Some Epstein 2.0 donating $1b for rebuilding the island?
Trump promised to scrap
climate lawsearth if US oil bosses donated $1bnLet’s not exaggerate . He’s just offering to scrap the biosphere. The rest of Earth will be fine.
I want to know what happens if they don’t quite make the $1 billion. I mean, that’s a lot of cash. What happens if they only donate, say, $750 million? $900 million. Is the quid pro quo pro rata?
This might be the only latin joke I ever get.