The Longer This War Runs, the Richer They Get

The president's two sons quietly bought into the drone companies his Pentagon keeps paying. Once you see how the money moves, you cannot unsee it.

All In The Family

Picture a hot night over the Persian Gulf. A twenty year old from your state stands watch outside a base in the desert. The air smells like jet fuel and sand. Somewhere out in the black, an Iranian attack drone the size of a small plane comes in low and fast, cheap to build, packed with explosives, aimed at the building where his friends are sleeping. A small American interceptor lifts off, tears into the dark, and slams into the incoming threat. A flash. A thud you feel in your own chest. The base survives one more night.

That interceptor is one the government bought. Burn through them, and someone reorders. Someone gets paid.

Two of the men who own a piece of the company selling those drones share a last name with the president who sent that soldier to the desert.

You have not heard the whole story yet. Stay with me, because once you see how this machine runs, you will never be able to unsee it.

Do You Know About 1789 Capital and American Ventures?

Since their father took back the White House in 2024, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have poured money into more than a dozen companies selling to the Pentagon. Don Jr. runs his bets through a firm called 1789 Capital, where he signed on as a partner right after the election. Eric works through American Ventures, an outfit tucked inside Dominari Holdings, a small investment bank sitting inside Trump Tower. The brothers own about twelve percent of the bank.

Neither son holds a job in the government. Both still carry the title executive vice president of the Trump Organization. So they collect the upside, they keep their distance from the paperwork, and they answer to no ethics office watching them, no form forcing them to sell a share. Their own lawyers will tell you the gap is the whole design. The gap keeps them legal. The gap does nothing to pass the smell test.

The Longer The War, The Greater The Profits

A drone startup called Powerus, barely a year old, builds small interceptor drones with a single job. They hunt and kill the cheap attack drones Iran fires at our troops and our allies, the same Shahed drones lighting up the Gulf right now. One of the men who started Powerus, an Army veteran named Brett Velicovich, says the buyer sits inside Air Force Special Operations. In April, after a demonstration out in the Arizona desert, the Air Force placed its first order.

Who backs Powerus. The president’s sons. They came in through a side door so strange you would laugh if the stakes were smaller. A Florida golf course company, the kind with fairways near Orlando, is folding itself into the drone maker so the whole thing goes public. The brothers owned a piece of the golf company. Now they own a piece of the war machine. One of the golf courses might even become a testing ground for the drones.

Follow the logic all the way down, slow, one step at a time.

Iran fires cheap drones at Americans. Powerus sells the drones built to shoot them down. The Air Force writes the checks. Other countries in the region do the same. The president, their father, runs the war keeping those drones in the air over our people. Every extra night the fighting drags on, our side burns through more interceptors, someone reorders, the company sells more, and the family holding a slice of the company grows richer.

The longer this war runs, the richer they get.

Say that sentence out loud. Sit with the weight of it for a second.

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Your Tax Dollars Are The Fuel

This whole engine burns your tax dollars. All of it.

Their father’s Pentagon rolled out a plan named Drone Dominance, stamped a top presidential priority, wired into a defense budget request of about a trillion and a half dollars. The goal. Buy hundreds of thousands of cheap attack drones by 2027. Powerus is competing for a cut of a billion dollar slice of exactly that program. Layer on a quiet rule the administration pushed through banning foreign drones and foreign drone parts, which clears the field of competitors and hands the American market to the domestic makers the family bet on.

Companies tied to the brothers have already pulled in more than three billion dollars in federal contracts since the sons got involved, with billions more lined up, plus a door cracked open to bid on close to two hundred billion dollars in future work. Take the two giants out of the math, and the smaller startups the family climbed into still cornered almost one point eight billion dollars in long term Pentagon commitments.

Then there is the magnet company, and this one carries the fingerprints.

Hello, The White House is Calling

There is a rare earth magnet company in the pile too, another Don Jr. bet, a company whose magnets go straight into drones and radar. Don Jr.’s firm bought a stake in August 2025. Three months later the Pentagon handed the company a six hundred and twenty million dollar loan, the largest that lending office had ever made, worth twice what the whole company was valued at.

Reporters at ProPublica traced how the deal moved. A top White House adviser named Peter Navarro, a friend of Don Jr., leaned on Pentagon staff to push the loan through. One official described the message coming down the chain. The call came from the White House, get this done. Staff who normally take months to vet a deal worked late nights and closed this one in weeks. The government even took an ownership stake in the company as part of the package.

Over those few months the company’s estimated value jumped about tenfold, from around two hundred million dollars to around two billion. A windfall for a startup with fewer than fifty employees, underwritten by your taxes, with the president’s son holding a piece.

Here is the detail that tells you how close these men are. A week before that loan went public, Don Jr. sat Navarro down as a guest on his streaming show and told his millions of followers to go buy the man’s book. Don Jr.’s firm says he knew nothing about the loan and played no part in it.

The Stock That Jumped The Day His Name Was Added

Watch how the name alone moves money. A small drone parts company called Unusual Machines put Don Jr. on its advisory board right after the election. They handed him two hundred thousand shares for the honor. The stock closed up around eighty five percent the day they announced him. His stake sat near eight million dollars this summer. Months after he joined, the Army placed the company’s biggest order yet, thousands of drone motors and parts, with word of tens of thousands more to come.

This spring, news broke that the Pentagon wants to pump federal money straight into a group of drone companies, Unusual Machines among them, some deals shaped to hand the government its own ownership stake. The stock rocketed again, blew past a record high, and Don Jr.’s paper pile fattened by millions in a single morning. No product launch. No new invention. A report about government cash, and the president’s son got richer before lunch.

Nobody Is Guarding The Gate

Here is the piece meant to make your stomach drop. United States senators pushed the Pentagon for answers, and the answer they got back told the story. The department screens the financial disclosures of the people it employs. The president’s sons hold no government job, so they file no such disclosure. The senators read that reply and reached the only conclusion it allows.

The department has no real way to catch a conflict like this one. The sons sit outside the fence, and the officials handing out the contracts hold no formal tool to see the conflict standing right in front of them.

Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, and Andy Kim have been hammering the Defense Secretary with letters for months, asking one plain question. Are these contracts clean. The reply they got back showed a gate with no guard. Congressman Mike Levine had this to say about the drone companies:

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An ethics expert put a single word on the whole arrangement. Corruption. Richard Painter, once the chief ethics lawyer inside a Republican White House under George W. Bush, looked at the war and the family’s stake in it and said the country fought a war over these months and got little for it, while the president’s sons profit off the defense budget. Read the source of that line again. The former top ethics lawyer for a Republican president is telling you the war looks like a raw deal for you and a sweet deal for them.

Painter will also tell you the ugliest part. No law bars a president’s children from investing in companies that feed off government money. Feel that land. The thing eating away at your government is legal. A gate with no guard is not an accident. It is a choice, and the people who benefit from it made it.

Let’s Get Real- These Guys Couldn’t Build a Drone if Their Lives Depended On It

Strip away the family name and ask a simple question. What do these two men know about drones. About aerospace engineering. About the guts of a Pentagon contract. Nothing. Their careers ran through real estate, hotels, golf resorts, and Trump branded television. Their sudden rise as the hottest names in the defense world tracks one event and one event only. Their father returned to power.

Don Jr. once knew exactly how this looks. Back in 2021 he mocked Hunter Biden online, sneering that those no show, no experience board seats never come without an expected return. He wrote the case against his own family with his own thumbs. Read his old words back to him and the game stands fully exposed.

What They Will Tell You

The White House calls this a tired, decade old narrative from Democrats. The Pentagon says outside investors and political connections play no role in who wins the work. Don Jr.’s people say he does not deal with the federal government for these companies. Eric calls himself one of several passive investors and says he is proud to invest in companies he believes in. The Powerus founder says the government picks a weapon because troops need it now, no matter who sits on an investor list.

Hold each answer up to the light. Every one of them dances around the same plain fact. The president’s family makes money when the president’s government spends. These guys wouldn’t be involved in these companies if their father wasn’t the president. Their distance from the paperwork erases none of the incentive. The incentive lives in the bank account, and the bank account does not care who signed which form.

What You Do Now

You feel the pull to look away. The story comes wrapped in company names and dollar signs and shell games stacked layer on layer, until your eyes glaze and your brain taps out. The fog is the plan. A confused voter stays quiet, and a quiet voter is the exact thing a family cashing in on a war is counting on.

So carry one clean picture out of here with you. A toll booth. Their father built the road. He aimed the traffic straight down it. He put his kids in the booth. Every drone that flies, every night this war grinds on, drops another coin in the family jar.

Then do four things, starting today.

Share this with five people who still believe both sides play the same tired game. Show them the toll booth. Let them reach the conclusion on their own.

Call your senators and your House member, by phone, and ask one question. What are you doing to stop the president’s family from profiting off a war paid for with our taxes. This post shows you how to do this.

Get behind the people demanding a real wall between the president’s family and the Pentagon’s checkbook. A gate with no guard gets a guard when voters make enough noise to force one.

Remember all of this the next time someone tells you the war has to keep going. Ask who gets paid when the fighting never ends. You already know two of the names.

Mitch Jackson, Esq.

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