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Sons Cash In on Dad’s War 🚨Cheap interceptor goes out. Expensive missile stays in the magazine. I know… Revolutionary thinking, right? Great. Give that Pentagon planner a Dunkin Donut. Possibly a day off. Then someone followed the corporate trail and discovered that the drone company selling the interceptor is financially backed by the sitting president’s sons. What worries me is that the Air Force might have chosen an interceptor drone based not on its performance, but to make the Trump family more money. Because lives will be saved or lost based on the success or failure of these interceptor drones. 🚨Trump’s Sons Backed a #Drone Company. Now the Air Force Is Buying Its Weapons Powerus was founded in 2025. The Trump brothers’ involvement ran through American Venture Partners, a vehicle also backed by Dominari Holdings, a fintech and securities group operating out of Trump Tower. A golf club company merging with a drone manufacturer sounds like a Mad Libs page from a defense investment conference after the bourbon came out and the prostitutes went home. But that’s the actual structure. The Deal -- ------------------------------------------------------ Bloomberg reported this week that the US Air Force agreed to buy an undisclosed number of interceptor drones from , a company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. The system in question is the Guardian-2, a semi-autonomous interceptor designed to defeat cheap one-way attack drones of the Shahed variety. The Air Force placed what Powerus is calling a “limited procurement order” after a successful demonstration. This is happening while the US is in its third month of active conflict with Iran, a war prosecuted under the foreign policy decisions of the same president whose sons are financially tied to the company now selling weapons into that operational environment. I’ll pause so you can pour some whiskey into your coffee. It helps… Let’s be honest about something first: America genuinely needs cheap drone interceptors. If you’ve been reading this newsletter for more than five minutes, you already know this. You’ve heard me talk about the air defense cost curve until you can recite it in your sleep. Shahed-style drones are a real threat. Israel and Gulf states have been bleeding through expensive interceptor missiles trying to knock down $20,000 drones with $2 million Patriot rounds, and the math is killing them. So have US forces in the region. The solution space is obvious, thanks to #Ukrainian ingenuity: you need cheap interceptors that can be produced at volume, fielded by small teams, and replaced fast when they get chewed up. A perfect system that arrives in 2034 is a war crime against the people who need it in 2026. A decent system that troops can actually hold, launch, and reload, that saves lives. So, the need is real and Guardian-2 may genuinely be part of the answer. The issue is that we don’t have clear line of sight into the interceptors competing for the same contract, how much better the Guardian-2 presumably is, and whether the decision was weighted by Trump’s sons. The Ethics Problem -- --------------------------------------------------- Reuters reported in March that #Aureus Greenway Holdings, (a golf club company… I know, stay with me), backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. planned to merge with #Powerus to take the drone company public. #Powerus was founded in 2025. The Trump brothers’ involvement ran through American Venture Partners, a vehicle also backed by Dominari Holdings, a fintech and securities group operating out of Trump Tower. A golf club company merging with a drone manufacturer sounds like a Mad Libs page from a defense investment conference after the bourbon came out and the prostitutes went home. But that’s the actual structure. Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s former special envoy for #Ukraine and #Russia, joined Powerus’s advisory board. Powerus was simultaneously trying to sell drone interceptors to Gulf countries that were under Iranian attack and dependent on US military protection. Remember, these Gulf nations are only under attack because of a war Trump started. 🔔 If #Obama had done this deal, Congress would already be halfway through impeachment proceedings. Former Bush White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter warned the arrangement creates “serious conflict-of-interest concerns.” No shit, Richard. Welcome to the party, pal. The president controls foreign policy. Okay. The president controls the chain of command. Slightly more damning. The president appoints senior defense officials. Is it getting hot in here? The president shapes the operational environment in which defense contractors make money. Ding, ding, ding! WINNER! When the president’s family backs a defense company selling weapons into that same environment, the public has every right to demand a full accounting of how that deal happened, who approved it, and whether anyone in the chain of command felt, consciously or not, that a company with that last name attached deserved extra attention. In a functioning political culture, that would be the boring consensus position. Like “don’t fly into a thunderstorm” or “don’t invade Russia in winter.” If the Guardian-2 shows up in theater with Trump’s face on the side, or rebranded as 47, or painted gold, I guess we’ll have our answer as to whether this was politically motivated. #GulfState #EricTrump #Pentagon #ShahedDrone #IranWar‌ #Trump #SpiritAirlines #Airlines #Flights #News #OnlyFriendsDreamOnEP10 #DíaDelTrabajo #Airport #Inflation #DeltaAirlines #UnitedAirlines #Airport #Cuba #Tehran #NATO #Germany #EleccionesPerú2026 #şampiyon

War pigs gotta war pig! Trump family profits from arms sales to US military A US company called Powerus has signed a deal to supply the US Air Force with interceptor drones, though the exact amount of the gear to be sold and the value of the contract are yet to be publicly disclosed. The kicker? Powerus is backed by none other than Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, sons of the sitting president of the United States. Totally not a conflict of interest and totally not profiteering from the illegal US war in the Middle East! geopolitics_prime