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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,844 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 09:17 PM Mar 9

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

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

TommyT139

(2,360 posts)
23. Keep shouting about this please
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 06:49 PM
Mar 10

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

(8,671 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 10

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

Initech

(108,815 posts)
10. The next democratic candidate must run on throwing these psychos in prison.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:25 PM
Mar 9

Fuck Trump and his whole damn family.

KentuckyWoman

(7,408 posts)
12. Someday when this is all over
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:39 PM
Mar 9

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

(2,319 posts)
14. And why not?
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 12:07 PM
Mar 10

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

(147 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 10

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

(3,284 posts)
19. It's past time to take another look at those
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:07 PM
Mar 10

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

Kablooie

(19,110 posts)
20. It's so bizarre!
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:20 PM
Mar 10

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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