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Donald Trump Threatened With New Investigation
Newsweak ^ | May 11, 2024 | Rachel Dobkin

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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To: Telepathic Intruder

Here is the line of dirty DA's and crap-headed congress cruds, waiting for their turn to start another investigation, or issue another indictment, when this slug is through with his investigation.


      

21 posted on 05/11/2024 8:10:24 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Jim Noble

He ends all war on earth almost instantly.

Russia has received $91billion/yr in added oil revenues alone thanks to climate hoax oil.


22 posted on 05/11/2024 8:10:27 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Stupid. He doesn’t need donations from BigOil to follow through on eliminating all those economy-stifling regulations.


23 posted on 05/11/2024 8:11:33 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Ni)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It also impoverishes Iran and Russia to the point of being unable to threaten a large swarm of gnats.


24 posted on 05/11/2024 8:11:41 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: kiryandil

I call him Sheldon Whorehouse.


25 posted on 05/11/2024 8:17:47 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
That works.  

26 posted on 05/11/2024 8:22:42 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The Dem reasoning is absurd. A candidate’s public promise at a fundraiser to carry out declared policies that will benefit an affected industry if he elected is not corrupt. It is normal politics.


27 posted on 05/11/2024 8:45:22 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Yep. Democrats do this kind of stuff all the time.


28 posted on 05/11/2024 9:08:27 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: BrexitBen

It’s been evident for some time that actions regarded at de rigueur for Democrats will be pursued as crimes if performed by patriots. Cancelling executive orders, a Day-1 Biden action, would be an impeachable offense by Trump - in their willful/debilitated delusion of reality.

It’s the core of the leftist’s “double-or-nothing standards.” If it’s not a double-standard then they have no standards at all. Cite whichever section of whatever penal code you wish, the only punishable offense in the current regime is opposing the current regime. We used to call that a banana republic.


29 posted on 05/11/2024 9:13:34 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

He should have proposed cancelling their student debt instead.

EC


30 posted on 05/12/2024 3:32:17 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: Dr.Deth
We used to call that a banana republic.

We still do.

31 posted on 05/12/2024 3:55:35 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: kiryandil

Trump needs to find a way to crush these parasites when they surface and destroy them


32 posted on 05/12/2024 4:33:35 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So. Standard campaign promises. Now worthy of investigation?


33 posted on 05/12/2024 4:58:15 AM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Nothing illegal about a promise but the democrats are working on it.

If it were illegal Biden would have been prison 50 years ago.


34 posted on 05/12/2024 7:25:08 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

35 posted on 05/12/2024 7:55:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

No investigations to Biden undoing everything Trump did?


36 posted on 05/12/2024 8:38:50 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Trump is going to do that anyway, whether the oil companies contribute to his campaign or not. He’s already said so.


37 posted on 05/12/2024 9:18:04 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Trump is going to do that anyway, whether the oil companies contribute to his campaign or not. He’s already said so.


38 posted on 05/12/2024 9:18:44 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Yet “The Big Guy” gets payouts from foreign governments including China and there are crickets in the media.


39 posted on 05/12/2024 3:41:26 PM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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To: kiryandil

It is time to play cowboys and Democrats!


40 posted on 05/12/2024 5:51:54 PM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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