Top Democrats launch inquiry into Trump’s brazen $1bn pitch to oil execs
theguardian.com
The original exposé describing Trump’s offer to end US efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and end environmental for a billion dollars regulation is here
The original exposé describing Trump’s offer to end US efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and end environmental for a billion dollars regulation is here
Like laws and corruption matter if he gets in. It'll be nothing more than a country for sale
End goal of Capitalism, tbh.
Didn't the world go through this same scenario about 1500 years ago with the Roman empire?
At least they lasted more than 250 years
They would have burned out faster if they had the internet and social media 1750 years ago
They went through nearly constant civil wars and government changes
I AM SPARTACUS!
At one point even putting the government up for sale
Well yeah, but we explicitly modeled much of our government after Rome, so it shouldn’t be shocking that we share their problems.
I mean, with lobbying, it’s already a country for sale. In this case it’ll just be more blatant and easily accessible to foreign interests
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“It certainly meets the definition of corruption as the founding fathers would have used the term,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said in an interview about Trump’s audacious $1bn request for big checks to top fossil-fuel executives that took place in April at his Mar-a-Lago club.
The two senators have written to eight big-oil chief executives and the head of the industry’s lobbying group seeking details about the Mar-a- Lago meeting, as has representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the oversight and accountability committee, who has begun a parallel investigation into the pay-to-play schemes that Trump touted to big oil leaders.
Amplifying those concerns, former Federal Election Commission general counsel Larry Noble said that Trump’s unusually aggressive money pitch “violates the letter and spirit” of campaign-finance laws, and a veteran Republican consultant called it “blatant pay to play”.
“The totality of … Trump, the fossil-fuel industry and a [conservative thinktank] Heritage Foundation blueprint advocate will put a dagger through efforts to avoid catastrophic warming,” said Joe Romm, a senior research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media.
Trump’s strong embrace of climate-change denialism and his pro-big-oil policies were underscored by his aggressive $1bn pitch at Mar-a-Lago, which drew CEOs from giants such as Chevron and ExxonMobil, and the fracking multibillionaire Harold Hamm, the founder of Continental Resources, as the Washington Post first reported.
Likewise, Noble, the former Federal Election Commission general counsel, said Trump’s appeals for massive donations from oil and gas bigwigs [are] “pretty blatantly offering policy favors in exchange for large contributions”.
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All of them are selling policy making for money. Dems have mostly moved over to banks and investment firms.
Whitehouse and Raskin are the DEEP STATE! That's the ONLY reason why they would Investigate Donald Trump's attempts to allow Big Oil and other Corporations to BUY US Policy!
/s? Or troll?
I thought trump got rid of the "deep state"... Yay another campaign promise he had no ability or desire to achieve...