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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Hunter Biden on Elon Musk: “You’ve got some motherf-cker who’s made over $251 billion being a United States citizen, that got here and stayed here illegally before he got his citizenship, sitting here lecturing us on who we should allow into the US.”
Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies.
I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics.
It makes Nixon look like a boy scout.
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@JudithT7890987@RonFilipkowski Of course you don't tell the country you are attacking about your plans, silly. We are talking about informing your allies that might be affected.
“It should not surprise you that the same team which invited a reporter into a Signal chat about war plans a few months ago have been blindsided by the Iranian regime’s resilience.”
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@Scavino47@WhiteHouse They’d do this shit even if they saw irrefutable evidence that he raped kids. Because none of that matters to them. None of it does.
BREAKING: Legendary Pink Floyd guitarist @rogerwaters eviscerates “demented scumbag” Donald Trump in fiery rant!
On the Piers Morgan show, Waters was asked what he thought of Donald Trump. https://t.co/k1nFpccIaY
His answer is ALL of us.
“He's demented. He's demented. He's obviously very evil, but now he's demented as well as being very evil.”
“He was always a real scumbag. Everything he's ever done is awful in every way. So we can, you know, you can disagree.”
“You might think Donald Trump's, you know, a jolly good chap. All that crap. None of which he believes.”
“All he believes in is lining his pockets and the pockets of Jared Kushner and, you know, and maybe some of his other children and his friends Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and all the rest of the oligarchs who are all in the same cabal.”
He’s absolutely right, and it’s astonishing that more people can’t understand that.
The willingness of so many millions of people to ignore the things they are seeing and reading with their own eyes in favor of cult propaganda and the words of the world’s most lyingest liar just boggles the mind.
Share this far and wide!
@Martin_Sellner At the end of the clip, the two guys walking behind her, one on the right has same white shirt and dark jacket. They must be working together for this gag. Also, she dresses in bright pink and has bright cam lights on her? Looks all planned. Never get a good look at the guys.
@Martin_Sellner Looks really staged. The only guy you can see is on the left and looks like he just lobbed something and continued walking. Didn't look to see her reaction and the cam operator didn't even stop or try to get a good look at him??
From my appearance on 60 Minutes:
Me:
Research works. If you want to freeze society where it is, then cripple the research enterprise.
Bill Whitaker of 60 Minutes:
Is that whole idea being lost in the harsh rhetoric by the administration?
Me:
The attack on universities is a tragic blunder. For all the foibles of universities, and there are many, and I pointed them out, universities' research makes life better, massively so. Why would you want to cripple it? It's something that the United States does really, really well.