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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I’m glad Dr. Barbabella’s overall assessment is that the president is well. A few questions.
1. Why did the president have another coronary artery CT? He was last scanned in Oct. We don’t typically scan patients 6 months later unless we are concerned about a finding on the initial scan. What prompted the repeat CT?
2. The report notes that the president’s ankle edema is improved compared with last year, but at the president’s last annual exam he had no edema.
3. Dr. Barbabella attributes the president’s bruising to his aspirin and handshaking. But what about his left hand? Also, why is the president, taking a dose of aspirin 4x higher than recommended for cardiovascular protection?
4. Why was the president again given a MOCA dementia screening test? He’s had 3 in the recent past.
5. Did the WH medical team address the patient’s apparent daytime fatigue and sleepiness?
6. AI assessment the president’s “heart age” is that of a much younger 66-year old man is not a clinically utilized tool.
7. The president himself called this visit a semi-annual physical. Going forward, is the new schedule every 6 months? Why more frequent than the traditional yearly exam?
My entire community is showing up to stop the data center takeover happening in Coweta County. This was just 1 of 4 places you could sign this petition.
Israel spent 2 years running an elaborate lobbying campaign to have Hamas added to this UN sex-abuse blacklist, making the case that the UN designation was thorough, evidence-based and widely respected, which was why it was so important for them to get Hamas added to it.
Now that Israel has been added to it, they say the whole thing is a sham.