According to a recent report, while hosting top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago estate last month, former President Donald Trump proposed a deal that included $1 billion for his campaign and a reverse to environmental regulations.
The report from the Washington Post cited people with knowledge of the meeting and the conversations.
Trump reportedly proposed that if the oil executives would raise him $1 billion for his campaign, he would look at reversing the numerous environmental rules and policies that President Joe Biden has enacted.
The report said that at least one of the executives had complained about the regulations they were facing, prompting the proposition from Trump.
Trump reportedly told the executives that donating $1 billion to his reelection efforts would be a “deal” for them because of the regulations and taxation they would avoid on his behalf, the report said.
It’s no surprise that Trump has been attempting to appeal to automakers and the oil industry throughout his campaign.
Despite failing to gain support from the head of the United Auto Workers union, Trump has bashed Biden over his electric vehicle regulations in an attempt to show he is pro-domestic auto manufacturing.
“The Great State of Michigan will not have an auto industry anymore if Crooked Joe Biden’s crazed concept of ‘all Electric Cars’ goes into effect,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post last September. “CHINA WILL TAKE IT ALL, 100%. United Auto Workers, VOTE FOR TRUMP. Get your leaders to ENDORSE ME, I WILL KEEP ALL OF THESE GREAT JOBS, AND BRING IN MANY MORE. CHOICE IN SCHOOLS, AND CHOICE IN CARS!!!”
The report also comes as Biden continues to take new action to fight climate change, including having the Interior Department block future oil drilling across 13 million acres of the Alaskan Arctic, the Associated Press reported.
But despite ExxonMobil and Chevron, the largest energy companies in the country, seeing bigger annual profits than they have in at least a decade last year, Trump reportedly said they would see even more profit if he won a second term.