
Fossil fuel groups poured a record $96m into Trump in 2023-24, demanding more scrutiny, not less, says Sheldon Whitehouse
The Republican party’s seizure of the Senate and House of Representatives has ended a congressional investigation into big oil just when it is needed most, according to the leader of the inquiry.
“The fossil fuel industry is running perhaps the biggest campaign of disinformation and political interference in American history and they’re backing it up with immense amounts of political spending,” said the Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse. “The consequences in the White House are enormous and having a huge effect … but people aren’t aware.”
Craig Unger’s books House of Trump, House of Putin & American Kompromat, argue that Trump’s financial ties to Russian oligarchs & the mafia,1980’s real estate deals, made him a witting or unwitting asset. David Bogatin, Russian mafia figure, buying condos in Trump Tower in 1984
— Ian Hartley ★
(@IanHartley_) March 6, 2025
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