"ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum each made $ Million donations. None of the three companies have any morality whatsoever.
Altogether, Global witness identified $19,151,933 in donations from fossil fuel-linked donors.
The president raised a stunning $239m for his inauguration – more than the previous three inaugural committees took in combined and more than double the previous record – according to data published by the US Federal Election Commission (FEC).
energy giant Chevron made the largest contribution to Trump’s inaugural fund at $2m"
"that was less than the $1bean he requested from the sector in an infamous meeting at his Mar-a-Lago club last spring"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/10/sheldon-whitehouse-fossil-fuels
"The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” the Rhode Island Democrat said in an interview on Monday with the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now. "
Long before Donald Trump reportedly told oil company CEOs he would repeal Joe Biden’s climate policies if they contributed $1bn to his 2024 presidential campaign, Republicans went silent on climate change in return for oil industry money,
Sheldon Whitehouse asserted. The key shift came after the supreme court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which struck down limits on campaign spending.
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