Posted on 05/11/2024 7:16:07 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, has threatened former President Donald Trump with a new investigation into his reported promises to Big Oil.
The Washington Post reported this week of a deal that Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, reportedly offered to top oil executives at a Mar-a-Lago dinner last month—raise $1 billion for his campaign and he will reverse dozens of President Joe Biden's environmental regulations and prevent new rules, according to people with knowledge of the dinner.
According to the Post's sources, Trump said gifting him $1 billion would be a "deal," because of the taxation and regulations they wouldn't have to worry about if he was in office.......
"Except for day one," the former president said. "No, no, no, other than day one. We're closing the border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator." His drilling comment was a reference to his vow to expand oil drilling in the United States. He later said that the comments were in a "joking manner." Trump also said that "I'm not going to have time for retribution."
According to the Post, Trump reportedly promised oil executives to end Biden's halt on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, three people present when the comment was made, said. "You'll get it on the first day," Trump reportedly said, according to one dinner attendee.
On Biden's first day in office in 2021, he reinstated or strengthened over 100 environmental regulations that Trump weakened or removed during his tenure. With only six months left until the election, which will likely be a rematch between Trump and Biden, the Biden administration has been working to roll out 10 new environmental rules including increasing the cost for Big Oil to drill on public lands.
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And Trump is basically promising that gas prices will come down for the people. Which dems hate because it will reverse inflation.
All dems can do is complain oil companies are getting richer under Trump with lower gas prices.
Sheldon “Whites Only” Whitehouse, the racist KKK punk, weighs in...
Scratch a Democrat, and you see the white hood and the burning cross right away.
President Trump would do whatever he could to encourage more oil drilling in the U.S., so the improved regulations would come whether they ponied up dough or not. He has to get elected first, so donating money to candidates who are likely to do what you want them to do is what campaign fund-raising essentially is.
Sheldon can shove his investigations up his @$$.
GETS PRETTY COLD IN R.I. in THE WINTER
I must have missed that story... ?
As a stockholder ... that works for me.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe re-electing President Trump is going to solve any of these problems unless he is willing to use all of the powers inherent to his office.
And if he wasn’t before, I don’t see any reason to believe he has changed.
Today’s DemonKKKrats have been yearning to wear that white hood and lighting the burning cross since Reconstruction. They feel they were cheated in the outcome of the Civil War. Hence, they maintain the Political Plantation through monetary bribes for their Black minions. They have not given up the fight!
They get more desperate by the day.
We’ve reached a tipping point.
“Unfortunately, I don’t believe re-electing President Trump is going to solve any of these problems”
Trump as a new president tried to work with establishment as the way to get things done. He was royally F’d by the RINOs. He has no reason to trust anyone with a 2nd chance. So he just as well should be F’d for what he is doing as opposed to the fake news.
Isn’t Whitehouse the guy whose laptop was recently found to contain photos of underage boys in “compromising” poses?
I agree. What Trump is promising is to Make America Affordable Again. Democrats hate that.
I guess the Dems want to see just how high Trump’s polling can get.
Trump got out of bed one morning, so of course Democrats are going to start an investigation.
Trump has stated his plan to “drill baby drill”, to the whole nation.
He was quite clear about it in his speech today.
Big oil can save their $1 billion he’s doing it no matter what.
Senator White Man is being explicitly political.
Government, both left and right, should not be involved in energy.
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