Donald Trump pitched a deal to the bosses of America’s Big Oil firms last year. Over a dinner of chopped steak at Mar-a-Lago in April, he told his guests: “You all are wealthy enough,” The Washington Post reported him as saying, “that you should raise $US1 billion to return me to the White House.”
He promised to reverse dozens of environmental rules and prevent any new ones should he win the election. He said that giving $US1 billion would be a “deal”, according to the masthead, because of the tax and regulation they would avoid.
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