Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report
by Ed Pilkington in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#6MP6S)
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.
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