The Washington Post reported on a meeting at Mar-a-Lago where Trump made an extraordinary offer to leaders of the oil and gas industry: you put up $1 billion for my campaign and I will roll back all Biden’s regulations that restrict drilling.
He promised to reverse all Biden’s efforts to promote clean energy and fight climate change. He said he would open the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic to drilling. Whatever Biden has done to preserve the environment, Trump promised to void.
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. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
Giving $1 billion would be a “deal,” Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him, according to the people.
Trump’s remarkably blunt and transactional pitch reveals how the former president is targeting the oil industry to finance his reelection bid. At the same time, he has turned to the industry to help shape his environmental agenda for a second term, including rollbacks of some of Biden’s signature achievements on clean energy and electric vehicles…
Diane Ravitch's blog 
In Trump’s sick mind, everything is for sale. Trump himself was for sale to Vladimir Putin. Prostitutes were for sale to Trump to do golden showers in a Moscow hotel. This event helped to facilitate Trump’s self-sale to Putin, which is a kind of prostitution that is actually evil.
Besides this being a major bribe, this shows how Trump plans to be a ruler and have no consideration as to what the Legislative of Judicial branches have to say.
This story shows how far we have fallen in accepting corruption as normal
We have to keep this maniac out of the White House. Get the vote out, vote, vote, vote for Biden, PERIOD!
Amen. Why aren’t the Democrats amplifying T***p’s climate-change denial like mad (or, as mad)? If T***p is elected, there will be billions of tons more carbon in the atmosphere than if Biden is reëlected. This simple fact—it _is_ a fact—will be persuasive to millions of voters and potential voters.
Why would those oil execs believe anything that comes out of his mouth? Why would they take a chance on being conned?
Why would the state “Professionals” believe the select oral college could transform a known shamster ( 4K law definitions in 3 decades) into a trustworthy holder of national vulnerabilities? The proof of a strategy is revealed in the results. Most all “professionals” are minted by state institutions…
Because they have everything to gain and only a billion to lose?
Because they are used to bribery in the age of Citizens United?
Because they are just as transactional and morally bankrupt as he is?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Why would those oil execs believe anything that comes out of his mouth? Why would they take a chance on being conned?
Trump is asking for a billion but will settle for less and the oil execs will give him less, probably in the hundreds of millions (collectively), because this psychopath/sociopath could actually become president.
Trump is a supreme kleptocrat. His only goal is to use everyone and everything to enrich himself. The idea that this vandal is anointed by God is crazy! Another term of his crime boss leadership would cause our nation international embarrassment and denigration. We would be considered the “banana republic of the United States” by our former allies that would no longer trust us.
Is he the only American president actually to be laughed AT by the delegates when he spoke at the U.N.?
What a freaking embarrassment.
An embarrassment who is leading right now in the polls.
Giving your hard earned cash to a guy who is purportedly a billionaire yet has already squandered hundreds of millions of inherited dollars on failed businesses, who escaped the consequences of that thru lenient bankruptcy and tax avoidance laws favoring the rich, so was able to continue to live an outsized lavish lifestyle that’s basically been funded by banks & actual people he defrauded (as well as Russia), in exchange for letting that evil dim-wit live out his fantasy of playing king-dictator (no doubt for life), while further alienating our country’s allies, raping the earth AND leaving the world’s children (including his own progeny) with an uninhabitable planet, would be nothing less than A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL!
The problem is not just the billion dollars he asked for from big oil. Since April, tRump/the RNC have been getting $1 million a day, over half of which is coming from small dollar donations:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-rnc-raise-over-76-million-april-half-small-donors-2024-05-05/
Here’s some examples of how nutsy some of tRump’s small dollar donors are: “supporters who often made miniscule but repeated donations in a bizarre, seemingly random, manner.
Take Gail D. Lopez, listed in public documents as a retiree from Lacombe, La., who made 1,450 separate contributions to Trump’s campaign in less than 17 months.
Of those, 116 were for one penny.
Lopez made 228 additional contributions for less than a nickel.
And 1,000 contributions were for less than a dollar.
Her total giving was $4,272″
Think about how much time it must have taken for her to do all that. People like this are true fanatics who could probably never be penetrated by genuine truths about who the former guy really is and how little he actually cares about or even likes them.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/donald-trump-campaign-contributions-fec/
I think IQ 45 has made the same pitch most if not all extreme right billionaires, to Putin in Russia, Xi in China, Kim in North Korea, and whoever leads Saudia Arabia, in that order. Iran might be on that list too.
The traitor is working his way down a list.
Trump’s transactional malignant narcissism illustrates how much the Putin puppet has already damaged the United States. His constant stream of Kremlin disinformation disparaging our elections, our military, our intelligence agencies, any and every American institution, his embrace of racism and political violence – makes it hard to perceive of it as anything other than an attack on our country. Make no mistake – we are at war with authoritarianism and the Traitor is Putin’s sleeper nuke.
If he wins, oil and gas will be the tip of the transactional iceberg. The US will be for sale.
With these energy/environmental policies, there will be no icebergs in a generation.
Exactly so
Per the comments here, I think what Trump voters don’t understand is that he isn’t really interested in doing anything for them. Sure , thy all hate the same people but that’s where the commonality ends.
Trump is out for himself and he cares nothing for his base. They find his shamelessness entertaining but there is no single policy that improves their quality of life. They are so caught up in their anger thy feel that they will happily vote for a man whose policies will make their lives and their children’s lives significantly worse.
That pitch of his caught the attention of the House Oversight Committee. They’re launching an investigation.
Not that it’s going to go anywhere. The combination of Republican support in Congress and how he can afford to file appeal after appeal even when he’s indicted is maddening.
“Nobody is above the law” is beginning to ring hollow.
“Nobody is above the law” and “Equal justice for all” are both a complete joke in the United States. If, like Trump, you have money, then you are part of the “Just Us” System, which differs from the Justice System that the rest of us are subject to.
trump is right about energy hence gas price and heating prices at all time lows . Nobody except for people here and others want Biden and this terrible country we have now. So sad this blog is down this path too.
Terrible country? Can you explain without lapsing into FOX/OAN hyperbole? Do you prefer an authoritarian dictatorship like they have in Russia? You might also consider educating yourself about what causes climate change instead of broadcasting your ignorance and scientific naivete.
lCallisto, you mean censoring , mask mandates, vaccine mandates, open borders. 10-15 million illegals, men playing in women’s sports, government going after people they don’t like, wanting 80,000 more IRS to go after Trump people. High gas and high energy prices. Glad you believe climate change is so bad. Meanwhile, all the elites have a carbon footprint worse than countries with their own planes . Please you have no high ground here and living in fantasy world led by left media, sad.