Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn - report

[Uncle Joe]

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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 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”.

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Trump’s 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 Biden’s 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





Thanks Hermit for the image.

[bringthePaine]

1. Asshat selling off our assets?

[BOSSHOG]

2. Keep me out of jail because of things I AM GUILTY OF

Put me in the Oval Office and I will make you richer than you already are. I’ll destroy Medicare, social security, meals on wheels and any other obstacles to your getting a larger yacht. I will do all this because you and I have conservative values. And there is no reason I should be prosecuted for crimes I have committed.

I am unapologetic at stating conservative values are malignant cancers that will destroy freedom and democracy and liberty and Justice for all.

I do, however, apologize to English Teachers everywhere.

[Traildogbob]

3. Good job

As all these red states are blowing away with relentless tornadoes and softball hail from storm cloud heights way beyond normal.
I am certain he would be tossing paper towels to HIS states if he was not tied up in court.

[Traurigkeit]

37. One wonders if some thing other than natural is attempting to say some thing to those states

[Traildogbob]

38. The red folk

Sure waste no time blaming natural disasters on woke liberals. There certainly is plenty of reason for some smiting by a supreme power being trashed by his “Followers”. But if that were something, Mardi Lardo would have a stationary F5 taking care of evil, when the billionaire parties are going on.

[Traurigkeit]

39. Telling one: Open your eyes. simple message

[Diamond_Dog]

4. This is just nauseating.

Who does Orange Dump think he is to sell out our precious planet to the highest bidder. He makes me so sick. Evidently he doesn’t care what kind of world he’ll leave to his 18 year old son.

[Ziggysmom]

25. My thoughts exactly. He wants to leave the world a better place for his children.

[DENVERPOPS]

30. Well, this is a good example of Fascism

which is defined as the merging of Government and Corporations......

AND, they aren't even trying to conceal it anymore........Makes you kinda question if they all already know that the "FIX" is in on Trump's winning the election..............

[DENVERPOPS]

31. Sound's like Fascism to me,

which is defined as the merging of Government and Corporations......

AND, they aren't even trying to conceal it anymore........Makes you kinda question if they all already know that the "FIX" is in on Trump's winning the election..............

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. A naked Quid-Pro-Quo.

If documented, how is this not selling out to the highest bidder? Trump is getting desperate on both legal and political fronts,

[Justice matters.]

18. True, and don't forget his personal financial front...

like always...

No way he's going to win his half-a-billion case on appeal and someone in his cult of sycophants must have told him to kiss that bundle and the one he owes to E.J. Carroll goodbye, so he's trying to sell the planet's future to his effin billionaires' club.

[Traurigkeit]

36. actual case following the definition of that saying

[Turbineguy]

6. He won't live long enough to cook himself.

And what have future generations ever done for him?

[czarjak]

7. Pay2Play

There'll be takers.

[calimary]

8. Another ask for our Call to Action email!

Started working on it yesterday evening.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. A little more for you...

Click through for several news links about Repukes vs Biden on climate.

[calimary]

21. Thanks!

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Yeah, there’ll be more about this, for sure - as more news sources pick up on it.

I found it fascinating that, when this story first broke, you basically had The Guardian on it and everything else I googled was from weeks ago (so it really didn’t address what had just happened). But by the end of the day? DAYUM! EVERYBODY’s on it! All writethrus were dated by so many HOURS ago, not weeks.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Adding a little imagery...

[Uncle Joe]

10. Thanks for the addition Hermit The Prog

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. If you want to move the big image to your OP,

I can delete it from my post. It looks a bit big in the thread.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Done, but you might as well

leave yours up.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. Leaving the little one

But that big png felt like a stop sign at the bottom of the thread.

[Dorn]

15. This is illegal

[sop]

26. Of course it is.

How is this any different than Trump standing on the courthouse steps offering a million dollars to any member of the jury who votes to acquit?

[Hekate]

16. "The Art of the Deal" by Donnie Dementia. Who needs inhibitions when the brain worms are telling you...

… that SCOTUS’ ruling on your invulnerability is already a done deal?

[pwb]

17. With their earth on fire the young vote

will flock to Joe because of talk like this.

[Justice matters.]

19. Yes, but 75% of them must get off TikTok for a while to GOTV.

Unless TikTok posts about that end-of-the-world's "deal" go viral...

[CCExile]

20. Hey! Oil cartels...

are people, too! Billionaires lives matter! They care! They really do! They put on their $5000 suit pants one leg at a time, just like you! Arglebargle arglebargel...USA! Bibles!

[hay rick]

22. In an unbroken media, this would be the top story.

MSNBC is talking nonstop about who the next Trump trial witness will be on Monday.

[Uncle Joe]

23. You nailed it hay rick

[birdographer]

24. And so when he loses again

do they get their money back? A billion dollars is a mighty high bet that he will win. He can't buy the votes of sane and rational Americans no matter how much he spends on campaigning. There will be NO new voters going his way. And what if he has a mental breakdown and becomes a gibbering vegetable (more of one) before the election. Do they get it back then? They would be fools to take him up on this. Hm, wait.

[twodogsbarking]

27. Do the oil companies really need Trump? They seem to be doing, well, alright.

They already sleep with the Saudis.

[Evolve Dammit]

28. With the Citizens United debacle decision, they could do this and would anyone know?

[Uncle Joe]

29. I believe Clarence Thomas would know, he has inside connections.

A painting that hangs at Camp Topridge shows Crow, far right, and Thomas, second from right, smoking cigars at the resort. They are joined by lawyers Peter Rutledge, Leonard Leo and Mark Paoletta, from left. Credit: Painting by Sharif Tarabay

[Evolve Dammit]

32. One photo speaks volumes. Plotting, coup-planning Traitors.

[waterwatcher123]

33. Bribery - 18 U.S. Code § 201

It sure looks like Trump committed another crime by promising to use the power of the presidency to take official acts in exchange for payments to his campaign (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201). He just thinks he is above the law and should be able to do as he pleases.

[Turbineguy]

34. This sort of thing may violate corporate anti-corruption policies.

It puts the individuals at risk of getting fired, SEC investigations etc.

[FraDon]

35. This is nothing less than

soliciting a bribe. Lock him up!