In April 2024, at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago, an oil executive complained that his industry had spent $400 million lobbying the previous administration, and rules still hadn’t been changed. Trump’s answer to the 20 or so executives in the room was that they raise him $1 billion. He was specific about the return — more oil and gas leases auctioned on federal land. He called it a deal.

 The Washington Post and The New York Times reported the “deal” within a month, and two congressional committees opened inquiries. But nobody in the administration disputed it. 

One BILLION $, from Big Oil, to buy the president.

Before the Forest Service logs a drainage or the Bureau of Land Management leases a parcel to a driller, the agency must publish what it intends to do, allow the public to respond and answer the objections. That arrangement is 56 years old, and 640 million acres of federal land run on it.

But on July 3 of last year, five federal departments filed rules in the Federal Register that gutted their own environmental review regulations. Agriculture. Interior. Energy. Transportation. Defense filed twice. All six took effect the day they were published, with public comment invited afterward, if at all.

And you wonder WHY I hate the PIG, as he steals our country from us?