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How A Single Shell Company Drained $1.6 Billion From The Pentagon

More Perfect Union | July 12, 2026



Trump’s sons found a way to profit from nearly $2 billion in government contracts.

One defense startup won $620 million in taxpayer money only three months after Trump Jr.’s firm took a stake in it.

We uncovered how the Trumps are using our money to enrich themselves.

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This post currently has 46 comments.

  1. @Denny-ix9sx

    July 12, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    They would have neither the insider knowledge or leverage to force the governmental structure to make and support any of these deals, contracts, investments and companies if their father wasn't actively making the us government make them profitable.

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  8. @HeroesforDemocracy

    July 12, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    But Hillary and Hunter Biden's laptop!
    Classic look over there while I steal from you over here.
    The jail for these people needs to be Guantanamo Bay with all the waterboarding for free.
    Confiscate Everything!

    Reply
  18. @robertprice4788

    July 12, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    My only critique would be that you clearly stated they own a "piece" of the mentioned companies. But when you're calculating their worth you are attributing full value of those companies to them and not a piece. Don't disagree with the shadiness of what is going on though.

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  21. @ryanfiske2265

    July 12, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    These are all legitimate companies developing mind blowing technologies. If it wasn't Don and Eric providing private equity to these companies it would have been somebody else. This report acts like there aren't thousands of other contracts worth hundreds of billions that the Pentagon doles out. These companies would have secured these contracts with or without Don and Eric.

    Is their compensation grosely excessive…….YES!

    THIS IS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAVE BALANCED BUDGET, BECAUSE WHEN IT'S NOT…….. THIS TYPE OF GROSS OVERPAYMENT FOR PENTAGON CONTRACTS that CREATES THIS ABSURD COMPENSATION.

    This is going to happen and has been happening on both sides, just look at Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

    Balance the budget.

    Reply
  30. @luisdelgado4882

    July 12, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    This is the reason why I find it hard to believe the so called “ SUPPORT “ towards the republican party. They are fucking the country in every way possible…. There’s nothing to go back to …. The whole structure is falling into shambles in real time.

    Reply
  34. @rachelmae887

    July 12, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    Not one of these corrupted people are ever held accountable not from biden's family and certainly not going to be from Trump… The system here is broken and corrupt, everything is broken here…. The whole system needs to be gutted from the inside out all the corruption needs to be gone…

    Reply
  39. @abhig6589

    July 12, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    COME ON @moreperfectunion … your reporting is now just a “To-Do” list and “How-to-for-dummies” on how to benefit from the American Government. Good job!!

    Reply
  43. @ili626

    July 12, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    TAXPAYERS SHOULD REFUSE TO PAY FOR THEIR LIFETIME SECRET SERVICE. LET THEM PAY FOR IT! BETTER YET, PUT THEM IN JAIL AND TAX THEIR WEALTH INTO OBLIVION

    Reply
  44. @rootheadonelove2846

    July 12, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    The American tradition is corrupted. That is why this recent trend is merely an increase in normalized criminality misrepresented as 'democracy.'
    People better demonstrate their firm opposition or they can continue to be bought and sold by criminal insiders, justices disconnected from historical reality of legalized injustice, by markets misrepresented as 'free', as 'rational' and as 'necessary'. Continue to fund organized crime if you wish.

    Pop the bubbles of historical illusions and embrace freedom for the first time. Freedom requires truth telling, full accountability, and significant legal repercussions for corrupted politicians, parties, corporations and justices. End the reign of terror by dismantling historical institutions designed to fail at justice, democracy and equality.

    Reply

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