„Absurde Korruption“: Abscheu, als Eric Trump damit prahlt, einen 24-Millionen-Dollar-Deal mit dem Pentagon abgeschlossen zu haben; „Die US-Regierung ist mittlerweile eine der korruptesten Regierungen der Welt, wenn nicht sogar die korrupteste“, sagte ein Kritiker.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/eric-trump-pentagon-contract
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By the Trump Family’s own words we have the best government big „donor“ money and open corruption can buy.
**In Brief:**
* Thursday morning, Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo invited on both Eric Trump and Sankaet Pathak, co-founder and CEO of Foundation Future, a robotics firm that earlier this year **won a $24 million Pentagon contract** that will see its robots deployed in Ukraine, where they will be used to inspect and transport weapons.
* **Eric Trump and his brother, Donald Trump Jr., for months have been investing in companies with the goal of scoring lucrative Pentagon deals.**
* The *Wall Street Journal* reported in March that the Trump brothers invested in a Florida-based drone company called Powerus that “is vying to meet fresh demand from the Pentagon” for drones that started when the Trump administration banned foreign-made drones and drone components from the US in December.
* **At least two companies backed by Trump Jr. have received contracts collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the DOD.**
* Given this history, critics were quick to hurl accusations of corruption at the Trumps for **using their father’s presidency to personally enrich themselves.**
* “The president’s son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon,” declared Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch. “This is absurd corruption that Republicans in Congress will say nothing about and do no oversight.”
* Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews, [said](https://x.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/2047299768066445593) the fact that the president’s son is openly boasting about getting multimillion-dollar deals from his father’s DOD shows “the US government is now one of, if not the most, corrupt governments on earth.”
But but Hunter…
> Disgust as Eric Trump Brags About Scoring $24 Million Pentagon Deal
What a fucking loser.
Have we drained the swamp yet?
“*An underestimated rationale for Trump’s massive ramp-ups in immigration/military spending,” he wrote, “is to create a public slush fund for friends, families, donors.”*
Yes, exactly. I don’t know why it is „underestimated“ however, since it is so *very obvious*. Each time Donald Trump announces a new threat against Iran, for example, it is a boost for prediction markets, many of which are backed by Eric Trump.
Corruption has never been done so openly.
“But Hunter Bidens laptop and Burisma lol”
When the Department of Justice and the Congress majority (a tiny majority) are in your father’s pocket, you can do whatever you want. There aren’t any repercussions.
What do you even do after this? Substantial amounts of wealth and intelligence from our country has been looted, and put into the hands of people who hate, and have tried to destroy this country. Paths have been built to extract unfathomable amounts of wealth without oversight — what happens when they are on their way out?
I guess we hope they just sit on it all, and hope its never used to fuck our shit up. Not sure what kind of future can even be built with this level of funding to an insurgency.
The “greatest economy in the world” is quickly becoming a train wreck of epic proportion.
Trumps are parasites. Karma will find them
If you tally the total amounts grifted off conference contracts, foreign „favors“, crypto scams, and funds misappropriation, the US is by far the most corrupt economy.
But but Biden
Chump was right when he warned us that America would become a 3rd-world country.
The only part he left out was that *HE* would be the cause of it
Their feeling is if the corruption is done in the open then it’s not corruption. It’s good business.
Zimbabwe lost the title to the US for sure!
Grifters gonna grift.
Record and preserve Maga corruption evidence now. Don’t want this bullshite falling through the cracks.
That family is a shit stain on this planet.
Hunter Biden had a congressional hearing/deposition about RUMORS that he and Joe Biden did this exact thing…but here is PROOF that Trump is doing this and all we’re going to get is the Mouth of Sauron, KKKaroline, just going up to that podium to make up some crap about why this is ok and yell at the media for even calling this out. And they won’t do a damn thing to push back on her.
The Swamp^TM
The most frustrating part is that even though this is clearly corruption, nothing will ever happen to stop it
Prosecute them all, take the money, put them in prison.
edit: words
No one is safe with these idiots in charge.
„is now…?“ The Pentagon has trillions of dollars of unaccounted for for the past 3 decades. The US government is, and has been the most corrupt government on earth for decades.
The funny thing about maga and US Conservatives is that these awful people are robbing society for everyone to see and they still are on the side of the trump family.
Yeah, but don’t forget our priorities in 2024. Harris didn’t win a primary and Biden was old. We as a people voted for Trump’s corruption, if we don’t like it we need to vote better.
The swamp is festering
All 3 investors for his drone company are tied to the Trump family.
I will not be satisfied unless these people are all in jail and we claw back all of their corrupt profits from them and all their family and friends who put their grubby little fingers in the mix.
This is no longer the United States government. This is not the “will of the people”. It was stolen from us, we are living in the Trump states of America, the grift will go on.
Bragging that your daddy helped get you millions in taxpayer money is not just corrupt, but it’s also pathetic. Trumps kids would fail harder if he wasn’t around…..and that’s saying something.
Trump will pardon his piece of shit sons
The question is how do we get MAGA voters to care about this? The majority of adults, domestically and abroad, can look at what they’ve done in the past 16 months and see it for what it is, but his base doesn’t seem to give a fuck. I don’t know if it’s willful or blind ignorance, but we have to wake these people up and get them to turn on this administration and the Trump Crime Family.
a world run by and for billionaires … while regular folk validate what they do …
after this is all over, the first thing that should be done is combing through every shady dealing, prosecuting, seizing every penny, then sending them to rot in prison. fuck these people.
It’s only corruption if a Democrat does it. If a Republican does it, it is just good business. Republicans love corruption, it’s one of their favorite things to do along with sexual assault and paedophilia.