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Donald Trumps sons could be in for a payday over their fathers planned $1 billion-plus military equipment purchases.
Donald Jr. and Eric Trump are investors in a new drone company targeting Pentagon contracts, with plans to go public on the Nasdaq, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Trump administration has made domestic drone supply a national security priority, banning new models of Chinese droneswhich had long dominated the consumer and commercial marketsand launching the Pentagons Drone Dominance initiative.
The program is earmarked to spend $1.1 billion procuring hundreds of thousands of American-made systems by 2027. That has opened a major commercial window in a sector that has historically been fragmented and starved of defense contracts.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-sons-launch-jaw-dropping-143459597.html
Skittles
(171,146 posts)So our side should have everyone hitting tv talking about this.
Hassin Bin Sober
(27,448 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,926 posts)gfarber
(257 posts)There once was a plan from the Hill,
To buy drones by the hundred-thousand still.
With a billion to spend,
The Pentagon penned
A program to boost domestic skill.
Two sons of a president bold
Found a startup in drones to behold.
If contracts align,
And markets feel fine,
Their Nasdaq debut might turn gold.
For years Chinese drones filled the sky,
Cheap cameras that businesses buy.
But bans changed the game,
Securitys aim
Now local manufacturers try.
The Pentagons push came with might,
Drone Dominance set in its sight.
With billions in play,
New firms race the fray,
To build fleets that buzz into flight.
A market once fractured and thin
Now beckons investors to spin.
If contracts appear,
The profits draw near
And Trumps sons may happily grin.
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SonOfNebanaube
(102 posts)TommyT139
(2,328 posts)For a supposedly short-term "excursion," no one starts a company producing a new line of high technology military equipment only to use outside the US.
DHS has already been using drones to surveil peaceful protesters, identifying them with DOGE/Palantir -constructed facial rec cameras and detailed databases.
These will be used on/over US soil, against citizens. And if they are classified as a "national security" item, I bet the information about purchases and use will not be available to us.
johnnyfins
(3,714 posts)KPN
(17,319 posts)again.
surfered
(13,023 posts)malaise
(295,305 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,858 posts)mdbl
(8,564 posts)And the complicit assholes in the GOP Congress just sit with their thumbs up their butts doing nothing about it.
Irish_Dem
(80,858 posts)UTUSN
(77,564 posts)Initech
(108,504 posts)Fuck Trump and his whole damn family.
KentuckyWoman
(7,397 posts)The rules around government contracts and foreign business deals need to be tightened up. And taxpayers should confiscate every penny grifted by all of them.
I know it won't happen but a girl can dream
popsdenver
(2,179 posts)Trump, all his spawn, Jared, all of Trump's advisors, and fellow Republican Politicians, and everyone else in his CABAL have been grifting to the MAX off their "entitled", lawless positions......
malaise
(295,305 posts)Donvicts pardoned his criminal daddy
Multichromatic
(125 posts)Can't we get rid of all these corrupt scum bags or put them in jail? I am SO sick of hearing how Trump or his family are robbing the country blind.
BidenRocks
(3,168 posts)War Profiteering Laws!
Insider Trading
Market Manipulation
and just being insufferable assholes!
Kablooie
(19,096 posts)They spend their whole life figuring out how to scam people to grab more money for themselves. Money they dont need and can never spend. Their sense of worth is based on how big a number they can write in their bank accounts. It doesnt provide anything for anyone, not even themselves because they already have more than enough to do anything they want. Its just bragging rights among their cronies. They feel proud to be able to destroy lives just for stupid bragging rights.
Owens
(594 posts)Expect hearings and naked photos?? Right??