The Republican candidate for president of the United States, Donald Trump, He promised to roll back dozens of environmental rules and policies in a meeting with top oil executives, in which he also asked them to raise $1 billion for his campaign, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Citing unnamed sources familiar with the meeting, held last month in Florida, the newspaper said Trump promised to end the president’s “term” Joe Biden Over the electric cars, in reference to recent emissions standards, and stopping the freeze on permits for new exports of liquefied natural gas, among other actions.
Trump trial over classified files postponed “sine die”
This week, Trump had good news on the judicial front. The Florida judge in charge of the case for alleged improper handling of classified documents postponed the start of her trial this Tuesday “sine die”according to court documents consulted by AFP.
The trial against the former US president was due to begin on May 20, but Judge Aileen Cannon said that would not be possible due to the high number of motions filed with the court.
The judge did not announce any date for the start of the trial.
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The postponement is a severe setback for special prosecutor Jack Smith, who brought the charges against Trump, and makes it unlikely that the trial will be held before the November elections, in which the former president is the Republican candidate for president.
The magnate’s lawyers have tried to delay his various criminal cases until after the elections, in the hope that he will win and be able to avoid the federal charges against him by being in the White House.
Trump, 77, is currently on trial in New York in a state case.
A court accuses him of falsifying 34 accounting documents to hide a payment of $130,000 intended to buy the silence of former porn film actress Stormy Daniels, in the final stretch of the 2016 elections, which the Republican magnate won against Hillary Clinton.
Last June, Trump pleaded not guilty in Florida to federal charges of unlawful withholding of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and false statements.
The former president kept classified files — including records from the Pentagon, CIA and National Security Agency — unsecured at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida and hampered official efforts to recover them, according to the indictment.
In the document published this Tuesday, Cannon said that the large number of pretrial motions and the classified nature of some of the evidence in the case forced the start of the process to be postponed.
“Therefore, the Court vacates the current trial date of May 20, 2024,” he wrote.
In addition to the New York and Florida cases, Trump has been accused in Washington and Georgia of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden, his likely rival in November.
Joe Biden said Trump would not accept defeat
US President Joe Biden, assuming he would win the November presidential election, assured on Wednesday that his Republican rival Donald Trump “will not accept” the election result, as he did in 2020.
“He may not accept the result of the elections. I assure you he will not accept it,” the US president said in an interview with CNN.
