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It’s probably for the best that the Trump family doesn’t bother to hide its corruption. At least we get advance word of their next grift rather than having to guess. This time around, it’s drones. Donald Trump’s sons are getting into the war business. It's pretty convenient when your daddy can start a war and you can profit, right? And pretty convenient when your daddy runs the government, so now the government will buy your drones, because of course they will. As Bloomberg reported Thursday, the U.S. Air Force will buy an undisclosed number of drones from Powerus, a company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. This whole thing got sleazy even before we learned of that deal. Rather than the oldest Trump sons investing directly in Powerus, they are instead taking their golf club company, Aureus Greenway Holdings, and merging it with Powerus. Presumably, Powerus will not build drones and design golf clubs, so calling it a merger is a bit of a fiction. Aureus raised money for this merger with help from Dominari Securities, where the Trump brothers are also shareholders. Initially, Don Jr. and Eric tried to sell the Powerus drones to Gulf countries currently under attack after their daddy started an unnecessary war in Iran. Sure, that is unethical as hell and essentially pressures those countries to line the Trump family’s pockets, but that’s just how things are these days, right? Even in light of this corrupt contract for a secret number of drones from a company backed by the president’s oldest sons, the company is ridiculously pretending its selection is based on merit. “They’re not going to pick a system because of who’s on an investor list,” said Brett Velicovich, the president of Powerus. “They’re picking because they need it now.” They think we are fools. Are you a fool? I'm not.