German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after reaching a $1.2bn (£892m) payout deal with Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior (DOI).
RWE said that it will now reinvest the sum into conventional gas projects, including $900m (£669m) in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Louisiana.
There’s always corruption waiting in the wings. Did the German company pay him? Maybe. Did the oil/coal/gas companies pay him? Maybe.
This is much like the tariff refunds, right? Trump makes money by insider trading, probably gets bribed too, and the US taxpayers foot a gigantic bill which pays the people who bribed him.
What is shocking, if you haven’t seen it before, is the difference in the amount he makes versus the amount it costs us. For example, if you give Trump a million dollars, he’ll happily waste a hundred million of our dollars… You might think 100x is excessive, like can’t he steal a little more efficiently, amirite, but basically criminals don’t give a shit about collateral damage, so the thought never crossed his mind.