We’re letting Trump distract us from his corrupt, anti-climate agenda
Donald Trump sat down with oil executives and told them that if he wins, he’ll scrap a slew of President Biden’s clean energy and other environmental regulations they don’t like
— as long as they raise $1 billion for him.
The response? Crickets.
Trump’s pay-for-play move was frequently described as
⭐️ “transactional.” The right word is
🔥“corrupt.”
Last weekend, at a rally in Wildwood, N.J., he pledged to halt offshore wind farms.
All of them.
Right away.
“We are going to make sure that that ends on day one,” Trump said.
“I’m going to write it out in an executive order.”
It was consistent with a remarkable statement he was reported to have made to the energy execs:
👉 “I hate wind.”
No investigative reporting is required to see what Trump would do.
His campaign website goes on and on about how he would “stop all Joe Biden policies that distort energy markets,” describing the president’s approach as “industry-killing, jobs-killing, pro-China and anti-American.”
👉The right’s propensity to deny climate change runs so deep that in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his fellow Republicans in the legislature have written their denial into law.
Last week, as Anna Phillips reported in The Post, DeSantis signed a bill that removes most references to climate change in state laws and, for good measure, bans offshore wind turbines in state waters and weakens natural gas pipeline regulation.
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