Trump Sons-Backed Firms Bank $6 Billion Plus In Pentagon Deals

Neither Unusual Machines nor Powerus had previously received government contracts prior to getting investments from the Trump brothers.

Vulcan Elements, a rare earths magnet startup that has received funding from 1789 Capital, last year received a $620 million loan from the Pentagon.

Foundation Future Industries, a robotics startup that named Eric Trump as its chief strategy adviser, was awarded a $24 million Pentagon contract in April. Shortly after the deal was announced, the Trump son boasted to Fox Business that it would help the US“win” the race with China to build battle-ready robots.

A spokesperson for the Trump brothers told ABC that they“are experienced business leaders who have built and invested in businesses across a wide range of industries for decades, long before their father first ran for public office.”

“Their investment decisions are based solely on their independent business judgment and personal convictions,” the spokesperson said,“and they do not seek to influence, direct, or participate in any government decision, procurement, award, regulatory action, or other governmental process. Attempts to portray their ordinary investment activities as improper are a deliberate distortion of the facts.”

Critics of the Trump family, however, were quick to accuse the two Trump brothers of engaging in unprecedented corruption.

“Donald Trump and his sons have raked in BILLIONS while Americans struggle to make ends meet,” wrote the social media account for Democrats in the US House of Representatives.“Let's call this what it is: blatant corruption and an abuse of power.”

Phillips O'Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews, said congressional Democrats should use the power of the purse to defund the Trump family's self-dealing.