Jackie Calmes: Whatever Big Oil wants, Big Oil gets. As long as it bankrolls Trump

What better sign could there be that we’re drowning in political outrage, that we’re inured to it, than this:

A national newspaper scooped this month that Donald Trump gathered about two dozen oil industry executives for a chopped steak dinner at his Mar-a-Lago playground in April and suggested “a deal”: They should raise $1 billion for his presidential campaign because, once reelected, he’d slash their taxes and federal regulations and, as he’d said many times before, let them “drill, baby, drill.”

That story came and went, with little commentary or follow-up in the news