House Democrat presses oil CEOs for details of Trump's fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago
The House Oversight Committee's top Democrat asked oil executives to reveal whether former President Donald Trump had proposed a "quid-pro-quo" arrangement to them at a recent Florida fundraising dinner, according to letters released Tuesday by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. The letters arose from a Washington Post report that Trump hosted the executives for dinner Apr. 11 at his private club, Mar-a-Lago. "You all are wealthy enough," Trump reportedly told the assembled guests. "You should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House." The former president then reportedly told the oil executives that if they helped him win another term as president, he would reverse the Biden administration's freeze on permits for liquefied natural gas exports, auction more oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico and roll back rules on auto emissions. The reporting raises "significan