"“It certainly meets the definition of #corruption as the founding fathers would have used the term,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said about Trump’s audacious $1bn request for big checks to top fossil-fuel executives that took place in April at his Mar-a-Lago club.
Whitehouse added: “The #QuidProQuo – so called – is so very evident … I can’t think of anything that matches this either in terms of the size of the bribe requested, or the brazenness of the linkages.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/03/trump-big-oil-campaign-pitch-corruption