The receipts are finally out, and they are damning.
The numbers are staggering. The firms backed by Trump’s sons have already secured more than $3. 2 billion in Pentagon deals since Trump retook the White House, plus another $3.
1 billion in potential future work and the exclusive right to bid on up to $200 billion more.
Here’s the part that makes it even worse: most of their investments came after Trump won the election. Neither brother had any real experience in the defense sector before they suddenly started buying into companies chasing federal contracts.
The money flows through two vehicles
Don Jr. joined 1789 Capital as a partner just days after his father’s win. Eric runs American Ventures out of Dominari Holdings, headquartered inside Trump Tower itself.
Two MAGA-connected names dominate the haul. Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Palmer Luckey’s Anduril account for 97 percent of the direct government cash the Post tallied. But even setting those aside, 13 lesser-known startups backed by the brothers still cornered nearly $1.
8 billion in long-term Pentagon commitments.
Don Jr. hasn’t even tried to hide his influence. He openly bragged that he “helped craft some of” the Pentagon’s messaging and has steered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth toward hires eager to spend big on drones, the exact technology his portfolio companies sell.
The White House waved it all away, insisting “there are no conflicts of interest” and dismissing the report as a tired Democratic narrative
But the American people can read the numbers for themselves. The president sets the spending priorities. His sons invest in the companies that profit from them.
And the Pentagon writes the checks.
In a normally functioning democracy, this would be illegal. The fact that it’s happening in broad daylight is exactly why independent journalism matters, and why this story is not going away.
