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 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.”
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