(No one has ever lined their pockets from behind the resolute desk like Trump and his brood has. Never. This is amazing corruption. Forcing nations in the Middle East to buy shitty interceptor drones from a company being run by his sons. Unfucking believable. Had ObamaGod or SleepyJoe done something like this the MAGAites would have been out in the streets tearing up the place. TrumpyBear does it? (crickets) I mean, this is a war of choice with no congressional approval. When SCOTUS gave Trump immunity, how did they not know he would be doing this with it?)
from The Guardian
A drone-maker backed by Donald Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the US military led by their father.
The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father began.
“These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want,” said Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer under George W Bush. “This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war – a war he didn’t get the consent of Congress for.”
Powerus co-founder Brett Velicovich told the Associated Press that the company is making sales pitches that include drone demonstrations in several Gulf countries to show how its defensive drone interceptors could help them ward off Iranian attacks...
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