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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@Titan_Cane@RHiggins_USF LOL, we’ve won how many straight? We aren’t going to lose money just to play them. Same thing they did to us, btw. And 05-08 only got played bc of their CUSA buyout. They wouldn’t have played us at all otherwise. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
@TheJoesList@3YearLetterman I’m sure Coach would agree that Dr Pepper is just a sorry imitation of Mr. Pibb, a man of the people who doesn’t need a fake doctorate to promote his superior product.
I was a long time Trump supporter, I became a National Delegate to make certain Trump was seated as the nominee.
While en-route to Wisconsin, I learned of the attempt on Trump's life at the Butler rally. I was in the middle of having dinner at a restaurant in Little Rock, AR. We immediately got the check and left, I was very upset.
Prior to learning of the "assassination attempt" I was to scheduled to do an interview with The Washington Post, they had a reporter who was going to shadow me at the convention. He reached out to me after the shooting in a way that I found lacked concern for Trump, so I canceled the interview and did not allow them to shadow me.
The purpose of allowing them to follow me was to bring awareness to J6ers. One of the hats I wore at the convention dawned the images of 4 J6ers, that hat now sits in the Smithsonian.
At the convention of course there was massive concern for President Trump the consensus was it was divine intervention that saved Trump and we were all incredibly grateful.
On the night Trump spoke, he had the ear patch on and many in the crowd did also. As Trump begin to speak, he started with this:
“So many people have asked me what happened. Tell us what happened, please. And therefore, I will tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.”
As I stood on the convention floor you could have heard a pin drop as he spoke. My first thought was how odd for him to begin this way. He was nearly assassinated just a few days before and yet he was declaring this would be the only time he spoke of it, that was my first red flag.
When people tell a lie, certainly a big one it is tough to keep all the details straight and doing so is an effort. In my opinion Trump made that statement to stop any further conversation about what happened. He gave us his official story, would only do it once and that was the end of it. Now we all know no one loves Trump more than Trump so this to me felt completely out of character.
Fast forward to the questioning of Secret Service on how this was allowed to happen. If you look at the perfectly timed ICONIC photo Trump standing triumphantly screaming FIGHT, FIGHT FIGHT, certainly this was divine intervention....right?
Following the inauguration, I found it odd that Trump wasn't going aggressively after those who allowed this to happen. He seemed to behave like it was no big deal.
His Secret Service detail failed him massively, allowed him to be shot, and they allowed that perfectly timed photo op to take place
Instead of his SS detail being terminated as they should have been, Trump made the gentleman in the white shirt the HEAD of the Secret Service on January 22, 2025. Instead of losing his job Sean Curran was given a massive promotion.
Now, I want you to look critically at this photo. They allowed President Trump to stand up, exposing multiple potential kill shots, as the flag is gently lowered. Interesting that the other SS agents lower their heads as the perfectly time ICONIC photo is taken. Honestly, it couldn't have been scripted better if were to have been done in a studio.
Since the attempt on his life, Trump has show no interest in investigating what really happened. He never mentions it, it's as if it never happened, except when he tells us, he took a bullet for us.
As for Corey Comperatore, he was used in this plot, someone had to die otherwise, it would have been much easier to claim it was a HOAX. They killed Corey, likely because he was truly a real life hero, one people would rally behind and defend passionately, as they should.
Then to top it off, they used Corey to their benefit at the convention. To this day his wife is begging for answers, answers she has repeatedly been denied. Sadly, they have no more use for her, she no longer matters.
If you cannot look at this story, and use critical thinking skills and have at least some questions, you are the problem and we need you to snap out of it.
#EpsteinFiles: New FBI report indicates 13-year-old accuser was truthful in allegations against Trump, corroborating most of her testimony
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@TorchmasterTm@BTForCongress You clearly don’t remember what it was like pre-ACA. You could be kicked off for any reason, many plans had low coverage caps, and prices were high.
Insurance is expensive in America for two reasons: we are a very unhealthy nation and have a for-profit healthcare industry.
@Jaydixon@Ben_Baby Well, Alpha School has been around for a decade or so, but I’ve never seen any study that isn’t just their internal work using their own assessments.
Could you point me to the study you’re citing please? Sounds interesting but highly correlational.
@nick_nahsty@notgaetti His ace pitcher argument is built on the short Covid season. There’s nothing that suggests he’s anywhere near a high quality major league starter, and the evidence from Japan says he’s less than replacement level.
Cincinnati spent $3.6M on Mamadou N’Diaye and Moustapha Thiam, which may be more than UCF's entire roster budget.
UCF just ended their season in the Big 12 Tournament.
The once-proud Bearcats have not made the NCAA Tournament since 2019.
Meanwhile, UCF likely just solidified their ticket to the Big Dance.