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.

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    6 months ago

    Roger Waters - Too Much Rope

    When the sleigh is heavy and the timber wolves are getting bold

    You look at your companions and test the water of their friendship With your toe

    They significantly edge closer to the gold

    Each man has his price bub, and yours was pretty low

    History is short the sun is just a minor star

    The poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar

    Que sera sera is that your new Ferrari car

    Nice, but I think I’ll wait for the F50

    You don’t have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder

    Tears burn our eyes

    Muslim or Christian Mullah or Pope

    Preacher or poet who was it wrote

    Give any one species too much rope

    And they’ll fuck it up