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WarGamer

(12,463 posts)
Mon Nov 13, 2023, 08:19 PM Nov 2023

Donald Trump isn't even the most interesting Trump.

And he's certainly the least accomplished.

Dr. John G. Trump was an electrical engineer with the National Defense Research Committee of the Office of Scientific Research and Development in WW2. That's serious TOP SECRET type shit there...

Summary, after the death of Nikolai Tesla in 1943, the US Gov't had a KEEN interest in the papers and records of Tesla who was believed to be working on advanced weaponry... Donald Trump's Uncle was the last person to inspect all of Tesla's papers.

One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World War II, he claimed that he had perfected his so-called "death beam." So it was natural that the FBI and other U.S. Government agencies would be interested in any scientific ideas involving weaponry. Some were concerned that Tesla's papers might fall into the hands of the Axis powers or the Soviets.

The morning after the inventor's death, his nephew Sava Kosanovic´ hurried to his uncle's room at the Hotel New Yorker. He was an up-and-coming Yugoslav official with suspected connections to the communist party in his country. By the time he arrived, Tesla's body had already been removed, and Kosanovic´ suspected that someone had already gone through his uncle's effects. Technical papers were missing as well as a black notebook he knew Tesla kept—a notebook with several hundred pages, some of which were marked "Government."

P. E. Foxworth, assistant director of the New York FBI office, was called in to investigate. According to Foxworth, the government was "vitally interested" in preserving Tesla's papers. Two days after Tesla's death, representatives of the Office of Alien Property went to his room at the New Yorker Hotel and seized all his possessions


https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html

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Donald Trump isn't even the most interesting Trump. (Original Post) WarGamer Nov 2023 OP
There's absolutely nothing interesting about him. bif Nov 2023 #1
What about the story? WarGamer Nov 2023 #2
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