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Trump To Oil Tycoons: Give Me A Billion, I'll Give You Everything

You may have heard of this already, where Trump casually promised a quid pro quo to the oil industry that would let them rape and pillage the environment at will. Even for Trump, this was stunning. Via the Washington Post: As Donald Trump sat with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one executive complained about how they continued to face burdensome environmental regulations despite spending $400 million to lobby the Biden administration in the last year. Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House.

 

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