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Ed Pilkington in New York

Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

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Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, on 22 January 2024. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images

Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.

According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.

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