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- Trump-Owned Company Scores Defense Contract From Trump Administration
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin The U.S. Air Force will buy interceptor drones from a company that is partly owned by President Donald Trump’s two eldest sons, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are part owners of Powerus, a company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. The government will purchase an undisclosed number of drone interceptors after a demonstration in Arizona, Powerus president and co-founder Brett Velicovich said. Bloomberg reported: The deal represents the first sale of this kind of weapon — which can zip into the sky and blow up enemy drones — by Powerus to the US military. The company declined to detail the terms of the deal or the size of the contract, but the military frequently enters into such deals as it weighs whether to adopt a new weapons system. The arrangement fits with a broader US push to counter cheap Iranian attack drones with similarly inexpensive interceptors instead of far pricier missiles. The US Army has already sent 10,000 AI-enabled Merops interceptor drones developed in Ukraine to the Middle East. Last month, before securing the contract, one ethics scholar pointed out the issue with a defense contractor being partly owned by the president’s children. “It’s corruption,” Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law told the Associated Press last month. “Government decision makers will feel pressure to use contract awards to enrich the president’s family.” Last week, Eric Trump appeared on Fox Business after Foundation Industries, where he is an adviser and investor, won a $24 million Department of Defense contract to make humanoid robots for use on the battlefield. “We have to win this race,” Eric Trump said at the time. “We have to win a lot of races, right? I got involved with crypto in a very big way because we had to win that digital revolution.” Eric Trump was referring to World Liberty Financial, in which the Trumps have a majority stake. Last week, billionaire investor Justin Sun sued the company, alleging breach of contract.The post Trump-Owned Company Scores Defense Contract From Trump Administration first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Fantaspoa, Latin America’s Largest Genre Film Festival, Wraps After Screening ...
Fantaspoa, the Porto Alegre, Brazil-based genre film festival, brought together a record 550,000-plus attendees through in-person and online programming. The 22nd edition of the festival, which took place over 19 days and wrapped with an April 26 award ceremony, brought in more than 80 domestic and international guests and hosted 24 world premieres. Additionally, this […] [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - 2 employees killed in Kentucky bank robbery, suspect at large, police say
Kentucky State Police said a man went to a U.S. Bank in Brea, Kentucky, and shot and killed a man and a woman, both employees at the bank. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - 5 wounded in possible stabbing attack at Washington high schoolThe suspect, a student, was detained at the scene, police said. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Texas executes man who claimed innocence in 2008 double murder
Texas on Thursday evening executed a 37-year-old man convicted of a double murder in 2008 that he said he didn't commit. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - ‘Get Your F*cking Hand Out Of My Face’: Scott Jennings Loses It on Adam Mock...
CNN’s Scott Jennings exploded at MeidasTouch commentator Adam Mockler on Thursday, telling him to get his “f*cking hand out of my face.” Mockler hammered Jennings on the timeline for President Donald Trump’s war with Iran on CNN’s NewsNight, noting the former George W. Bush staffer’s history of promoting foreign wars. “We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country that starts with letters ‘I-r-a’ that we are currently failing, that is going to put us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt,” said Mockler. “I was only a few years old while you were in the administration defending prior endless wars. Now this war is failing.” Jennings pushed back on Mockler’s characterization of the Iran war as “endless,” leading to a confrontation between the two that forced host Abby Phillip to intervene: JENNINGS: Eight weeks is endless to you? MOCKLER: Ok, you said it was going to be four to six weeks. JENNINGS: Is that your– you have the attention span of a nat? MOCKLER: Wait a minute, dude, hold on– JENNINGS: Is that what you have? Okay. MOCKLER: When I debated you on TV four to six weeks ago, and you said we were weeks away from it. Now you’re making condescending remarks because you can’t defend the fact that this war is not going your way. Wait, one more time– JENNINGS: Not going– not going your way? MOCKLER: Give me one– name me one political concession– JENNINGS: Get your f*cking hand out of my face, first of all. MOCKLER: Name one political concession– PHILLIP: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Woah woah woah. Guys, excuse me. JENNINGS: I’m not going to have this guy’s hand in my face. PHILLIP: Everybody, everybody hang tight, okay? JENNINGS: Honestly. PHILLIP: No, everybody, calm down. Okay? We’re having a debate. You can respond to the points that he’s making. MOCKLER: Can you name a political concession that we’ve gotten? PHILLIP: We’re not. CNN PANELIST GERALDO RIVERA: Flashback to the war the skinheads had at my studio. MOCKLER: I would be mad about it– PHILLIP: Okay. Scott, you can respond and then move on. JENNINGS: We have a very simple goal: to keep terrorists and a terrorist regime from having a nuclear weapon that can threaten the United States, our interests in the region, our allies in Europe, anybody else in the world. MOCKLER: So you can’t answer the… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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