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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(138,854 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 09:17 PM Mar 2026

Trump's Sons Launch Jaw-Dropping Bid to Cash in on Dad's War

Donald Trump’s sons could be in for a payday over their father’s 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 drones—which had long dominated the consumer and commercial markets—and launching the Pentagon’s 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

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Trump's Sons Launch Jaw-Dropping Bid to Cash in on Dad's War (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2026 OP
remember when repukes screamed endlessly about Hunter Biden? Skittles Mar 2026 #1
Yes JBTaurus83 Mar 2026 #6
Well he painted a $5000 dollar painting! Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2026 #9
Yep. Laptop! Laptop! BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2026 #11
Spam deleted by MIR Team gfarber Mar 2026 #2
Then he will use the 'Slaughter Bots' on us.... SonOfNebanaube Mar 2026 #3
Keep shouting about this please TommyT139 Mar 2026 #23
Uday and Qusay are at it again, eh? johnnyfins Mar 2026 #4
Hopefully, we get to find their daddy in a worm hole KPN Mar 2026 #13
Grifters gotta grift! surfered Mar 2026 #5
Like father, like FIL malaise Mar 2026 #18
I wonder how much the Trump Crime Family will steal from the US? Irish_Dem Mar 2026 #7
How about how much they already of have stolen or appropriated against the emoluments clause. mdbl Mar 2026 #15
Members of congress and the courts get their cut. Irish_Dem Mar 2026 #21
Bueller? Tapper? Congress? SCotUS? UTUSN Mar 2026 #8
The next democratic candidate must run on throwing these psychos in prison. Initech Mar 2026 #10
Someday when this is all over KentuckyWoman Mar 2026 #12
And why not? popsdenver Mar 2026 #14
Why is it jaw dropping? malaise Mar 2026 #16
Everyone in Trumps orbit is a war profiteer, scam artist, grifter, thief, or pedophile. Or, all of the above. Multichromatic Mar 2026 #17
It's past time to take another look at those BidenRocks Mar 2026 #19
It's so bizarre! Kablooie Mar 2026 #20
Comer is going to investigate them? Right Owens Mar 2026 #22

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

TommyT139

(2,505 posts)
23. Keep shouting about this please
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 06:49 PM
Mar 2026

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.

mdbl

(8,965 posts)
15. How about how much they already of have stolen or appropriated against the emoluments clause.
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 01:20 PM
Mar 2026

And the complicit assholes in the GOP Congress just sit with their thumbs up their butts doing nothing about it.

Initech

(109,648 posts)
10. The next democratic candidate must run on throwing these psychos in prison.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:25 PM
Mar 2026

Fuck Trump and his whole damn family.

KentuckyWoman

(7,417 posts)
12. Someday when this is all over
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:39 PM
Mar 2026

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

(2,813 posts)
14. And why not?
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 12:07 PM
Mar 2026

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......

Multichromatic

(246 posts)
17. Everyone in Trumps orbit is a war profiteer, scam artist, grifter, thief, or pedophile. Or, all of the above.
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 01:22 PM
Mar 2026

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

(3,655 posts)
19. It's past time to take another look at those
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:07 PM
Mar 2026

War Profiteering Laws!
Insider Trading
Market Manipulation
and just being insufferable assholes!

Kablooie

(19,136 posts)
20. It's so bizarre!
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:20 PM
Mar 2026

They spend their whole life figuring out how to scam people to grab more money for themselves. Money they don’t need and can never spend. Their sense of worth is based on how big a number they can write in their bank accounts. It doesn’t provide anything for anyone, not even themselves because they already have more than enough to do anything they want. It’s just bragging rights among their cronies. They feel proud to be able to destroy lives just for stupid bragging rights.

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