Leaked Memo: Tom Steyer Lied About Funding Take Down of ExxonMobil & Coal

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A leaked memo reveals that SF Billionaire and Trump hater Tom Steyer lied about not being involved with the take down of ExxonMobil and the bankruptcy of the coal industry.

The Daily Caller Foundation published a leaked memo that details how Tom Steyer funded Fahr LLC, Next Gen America and TomKat Foundation intended to put pressure on state attorney generals to “weaken the political influence of the oil industry by leveraging the ExxonMobil investigation’ into consumer fraud claims that the energy giant lied about its knowledge of climate change risks.

Tom Steyer built a $1.6 billion fortune as a hedge fund manager that invested in coal and other energy plays, before flipping the script to become Democrats’ and liberals’ 2016 largest individual political contributor with $89,794,744 in funding during the election cycle.

In response to a published report by the New York Post that the state’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was seeking Steyer political funding and support for his New York governor’s race as reward for launching and investigation of ExxonMobil, Tom Steyer told Politicojust 6 weeks before the 2016 elections, “We’re definitely not pushing this thing.”

An official with of Steyer-founded NextGen sought to nuance the quote the next day by telling Politico that the investigations of ExxonMobil were “not something that Tom personally is pushing, though some of our teams on the ground have participated in rallies or events to support our coalition partners.”

But the November 5, 2015 memo leaked to the Daily Caller states that Steyer through his founding of Fahr LLC, Next Gen America and TomKat Foundation was directly involved in coordinating strategy to “weaken the political influence of the oil industry by leveraging the ExxonMobil investigation.”

In addition to discussing Schneiderman’s request for Steyer to fund his New York Governor’s race, the memo offered tactics to personally “target Exxon management” and ideas to “engage with city attorneys” in California to sue the Texas-based company.

NextGen sponsored an April 2016 rally that was advertised on its website as an effort to nudge Democrat New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster “to join the investigation of Exxon Mobil and find the truth about whether Exxon Mobil intentionally misled the public about the risk climate change and fossil fuels pose to our communities.”

The leaked memo under a section titled: “Objectives and Key Results,” also sought to “use pending and forthcoming coal company bankruptcies to shift resources from coal production to coal field reclamation.”

The Steyer-funded groups discussed preparing to immediately “intervene” with $2.5 million to fund groups and unions to become “Parties of Interest,” if and when either of the U.S. major coal companies Arch or Peabody filed for bankruptcy.

In comments that smack of trying to coordinate with President Obama to help push coal companies into bankruptcy liquidations, the memo outlines a strategy to “Prevent increased coal exports” and to “Leverage Administration relationships to push the Department of Interior to enforce reclamation requirements and reform the federal coal-leasing process to account for the cost of carbon from mining activities.”

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