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Ramsey Barner

(669 posts)
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 08:03 AM Aug 2024

This oil tycoon brings in millions for Trump, and may set his agenda

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Harold Hamm has become Trump’s point person in raising funds from oil industry donors and relaying to the ex-president what the industry wants. His message appears to be resonating with some of the country’s wealthiest oil magnates, who are banking on Trump’s promises to reverse dozens of Biden’s environmental rules and policies. The money has been flowing in. The oil and gas industry has contributed more than $20.3 million to the Trump campaign, pro-Trump super PACs and the Republican National Committee in the 2024 cycle, according to data from OpenSecrets. Trump is expected to do more oil and gas events later this year, aides say.

Hamm has a wish list of policy changes in a second Trump term that would pad his profits and those of other oil executives. At the top of the list: opening up more federal lands to drilling, easing the Endangered Species Act and curbing numerous regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency, according to people familiar with his demands. Throughout Trump’s first term in office, Hamm was a reliable supporter of the administration and regularly spoke to the president. In early 2020, he lobbied Trump to help persuade Saudi Arabia and Russia to end a price war that had driven down the price of oil below $0 a barrel, causing Hamm to lose $3 billion in just a few days, people familiar with his meetings said.

The effort appeared to pay off. In April 2020, under pressure from Trump, members of OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations agreed to the largest production cuts ever negotiated — nearly 10 million barrels a day — as oil demand collapsed during the pandemic.


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/13/oil-donors-trump-pac-harold-hamm-election/
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This oil tycoon brings in millions for Trump, and may set his agenda (Original Post) Ramsey Barner Aug 2024 OP
Trump is a whore for money. He has no limits. Lonestarblue Aug 2024 #1
+1. The fake billionaire will do anything for a buck dalton99a Aug 2024 #4
Pay to play,.. and get your way,... magicarpet Aug 2024 #2
His money to lose. no_hypocrisy Aug 2024 #3

magicarpet

(16,849 posts)
2. Pay to play,.. and get your way,...
Tue Aug 13, 2024, 08:21 AM
Aug 2024

Buy the ability to bring deregulation to your industry with financial payment done under the table.

The US Supreme Court says - A Okay,... have fun boys. What could possibly go wrong ? They have a Constitutional Right and a fiduciary responsibility to make a reasonable (obscene) profit.

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