Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.
The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.
It had fewer than 50 employees.
And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.
Here is the part the administration tried to bury.
Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.
One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.
Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.
A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.
This is public money. Your money.
Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.
And there is more coming.
A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.
This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.
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If I look like I’m about to do something against my better judgment, it’s because I am: I’m thinking about going live.
Specifically, I’m considering adding a weekly YouTube live after my regular deep dives — basically a deeper dive on the deep dive.
I haven’t done lives up to this point because, frankly, the concept has terrified me. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I can be a bit of a loose cannon, and my first thought has a troubling history of becoming my first sentence.
That’s why my philosophy has always been: record, review, reconsider, re-record.
But this audience has made me feel a lot braver. So credit where credit is due; you’ve been thoughtful, sharp, funny, surprisingly normal, and somehow enthusiastic about digging into the weird niche rabbit holes I was convinced would bore everyone but me. So I want to try building a little more community around it.
Day/time TBD. For now, consider this me soft-launching the idea before I talk myself out of it.
Would you hang?
Let’s take a very quick, conservative glance at some TPUSA numbers I have off the top of my head:
The annual Mar-a-Lago event - which conveniently jumped from $2,500 to $10,000 per ticket after Charlie died - had almost 1,000 attendees, as noted by Glenn Beck. If everyone purchased the cheapest ticket (not including the $50k/$80k/$125k options), that’s $10,000,000.
ALP and TPUSA-promoted GiveSendGo pages raised $8,000,000.
If Tyler Bowyer is to be believed (we can argue that another time), TPUSA had 520,000+ merch sales as of September 16. With a *conservative* average price per unit of $25, that’s $13,000,000 from merch alone in LESS than one full week since Charlie died.
Six days of merch + one Mar-a-Lago event + two public fundraisers = at the very least… $31,000,000.
Tax-free btw.
I think TPUSA is doing just fine without the morbid, dead husband copy and desperate CTA links, Blake. I genuinely don’t know why you keep trying to troll Candace like she doesn’t mop the floor with you every single time. Maybe try sticking to your sad XO incel online forums, CharlesXII?
P.S. My six day merch revenue estimate was actually generous. In fact, you’ve already made another $1,220.16 off merch (at $29.76 average unit price) since I started typing this. Keep cashing those checks, king!!!
@marklevinshow Wow. You really showed him what’s what.
Anyway, thanks for the signal boost. More people should know about the loathsome terrorist behavior you’ve dedicated your life to defending.
I think turning point played a role in Charlie’s death. I will not shut up about it. Erika was working with Netanyahus son and Tyler Bowyer before they pretended to meet. Come sue me bitches because you can’t sue the truth and win. Erika is a peice of shit
If you have not had the profound misfortune of visiting TrumpRx, it is a federal drug pricing website that looks like Wix and a Pinterest board threw up on each other.
There’s a gold 3D eagle, there are pills floating across the screen, with the tagline “TrumpRx the price,” which is unfortunately not satire.
It has the typography of a Brooklyn juice bar and the self-regard of a man who has never been told no.
It is, in every conceivable aesthetic sense, a catastrophe. But that’s almost the point.
Because while you’re busy looking at the website, the website is busy watching you.
Former Pinal County Sheriff and Trump endorsed Arizona Congressional candidate Mark Lamb is a swinger who destroyed marriages and silenced women with legal threats. The Mormon Church in which he is an official did nothing.
🚨🚨The Trump Crime Family is more corrupt than the totality of All Previous Organized Crime Families Combined in the history of the United States.
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I spent thirty (30 years investigating Major Organized Crime Families & Gangs and without a doubt, Donald Trump has committed more crimes against the United States of America and its citizens than all Organized Crime Syndicates.
TRUMP is directly responsible for the theft of billions of dollars and the systematic destruction of our economy, the rule of law and our democracy.
TRUMP must be Impeached and Removed from office by the U.S. Congress this year. Both Democrats & Republicans must join together to save our nation.