(7 Jan 2025)
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Palm Beach, Florida – 7 January 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President-elect:
"But they took away 625 million acres of offshore drilling. Nobody else does that. And they think they have it, but we’ll put it back. I’m going to put it back on day one. I’m going to have it revoked on day one. We’ll go immediately if we need to, I don’t think we should have to go to the courts, but if we do have to go to the courts, you know, they try to be sneaky. They go in and they sign. Remember this is a man that said he wants to transition to be smooth. Well, you don’t do the kind of things … you don’t have a judge working real hard to try and embarrass you, because I did nothing wrong, by the way. I did nothing, absolutely nothing wrong. If I did something wrong, I wouldn’t be standing here right now because I’ve won all these cases. Nobody’s ever won so many cases as I have against the Justice Department. Jack Smith had cases all over the place. People were being subpoenaed. Lives were being ruined. They were spending everything they had. Money. We were helping them out. We had to."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President-elect:
"So that’s what we’re up against. So, they say we’re going to have a smooth transition. All they do is talk. It’s all talk. Everything they do is talk. We’re going to have a smooth transition and then they take 625 million acres and they essentially landmark it. So you can’t ever drill there again. Well, we’re going to be drilling soon. We’re going to be opening up ANWAR. We’re going to be doing all sorts of things that nobody ever thought was even possible. But remember, when, when and just to get off the subject, because I couldn’t believe it when I heard it yesterday. I couldn’t believe the size of it. I mean, you put down a map and put this off. It’s just massive. And remember that that’s worth probably I mean, I’ve had estimates 40 to $50 trillion. That’s more than our national debt. Essentially, he’s thrown it away. He’s thrown it away. He’s taken $50 trillion. So if we owe 35 trillion, he’s taken $50 trillion of value and thrown it right out the window. We can’t do that. Nobody can do that."
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STORYLINE:
President-elect Donald Trump complained on Tuesday that President Joe Biden was undermining his transition to power a day after the incumbent moved to ban offshore energy drilling in most federal waters.
Biden, whose term expires in two weeks, used his authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from future oil and natural gas leasing. All told, about 625 million acres of federal waters were withdrawn from energy exploration by Biden in a move that may require an act of Congress to undo.
“I’m going to put it back on day one," Trump told reporters at his private club in Florida. He pledged to take it to the courts “if we need to."
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