Trump II came to the rescue of shippers stranded by his Iranian War of Choice. He mobilized the U.S. Development Finance Corporation's (DFC's) "Political Risk and Guaranty products." Their press release states:
DFC will offer support to commercial shipping charterers, shipowners, and key maritime insurance providers to minimize market disruptions and help ensure the free flow of goods and capital.
Trump appointed Ben Black to head the DFC last May. Black is the son of Apollo Global co-founder Leon Black, a major sponsor of Jeffrey Epstein, the infamous international pedophile sex ring operator.
That's Leon Black with Donald Trump in 1996. Ben was not yet a teenager. Epstein later commissioned an artist to create a painting of Ben and his brother.
Epstein's other financial sponsor was Les Wexner of Victoria's Secret. Modeling for Victoria's Secret was a frequent lure used by Epstein and his partner Ghislane Maxwell in recruiting new girls to farm out to the rich and powerful.
Ben Black sits on the board of Dogpound, a luxury gym where Victoria's Secret models workout.
Trump II may want to purchase political risk insurance regarding his friends and their Epstein connections. He said he wants it to go away.
Loose lips sink ships and possibly presidents too. It's a very small world for the rich and powerful.
As for the commercial ship sinking, Trump II said the U.S. would escort oil tankers and giant cargo ships through the Straits of Hormuz. Calvin Froedge wrote:
The US largely abandoned this escort strategy during the Red Sea conflict. In fact, an entire coalition of US and European naval forces along with Gulf States attempted this against the Houthis. The campaign was an utter failure and the ultimate conclusion from US military leadership was that it was much better risk reward to focus on suppressing strike capability. Yet after months of airstrikes Red Sea traffic never fully returned. Attacks continued.
Trump is disconnected from reality. The political Red team needs to wake
up and realize the Digital Caligula is wearing a coat made of
cryptocurrency and his inadequate password is showing.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs noted the U.S. is "in the hands of a broken. corrupted, gangster-led system." Decades ago private equity underwriters (PEU) saw the benefits of moving to Washington, D.C. to influence people of power. More recently, America's TechGods did likewise.
TechGod of War Palmer Luckey landed another $4 billion for Anduril's futuristic weapons/surveillance offerings.
Gangster relations and those they deem worthy will enjoy obscene amounts of money, as they have for decades.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one. It is quite a system they are creating for one another while abandoning the little people.
Iran's exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi offered the right words for Trump II and his PEU negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. Politico reported Pahlavi's pitch:
“Just by a change that we hope to bring to the table, that will be probably over a trillion dollars worth of impact and revenue to the American economy, just by Iran’s market being opened to America and how much we stand to benefit from billions of dollars willing to be invested into Iran.”
Private equity underwriters (PEU) and their new TechGod brethren want to sell their wares worldwide and it's the U.S. government's job to clear new markets, finance their sales and do it all with regulatory forbearance, tax breaks and public subsidies.
Trump II loves throwing around big investment numbers, even if they are padded like his artificially low golf scores.
Low and behold, a natural gas pipeline/LNG project I'd followed since 2019 made Trump II's White House investment list.
The LNG component of the project broke ground in Southwest Louisiana in 2022. Yes, the company and corresponding project was sold to Woodside, an Australian energy company. That deal was completed in October 2024 before Trump was reelected.
So how does Trump II get to take credit for this project? His White House team would need to explain. They are not known for telling a consistent story about anything. Regime change had already been made a clear objective by Israel, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. for the attack on Iran. That's now number four or five on the list.
Trump II and our 51st state Israel joined weapons and intelligence in order to assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader. Both parties needed to collaborate for that execution to occur.
That blows a hole in Marco Rubio's latest assertion that the U.S. had to go in with Israel to protect our troops/citizens in the region. So Israel is defining our foreign policy, Mr. Secretary? Finally, an admission of what has been so obvious to so many.
It's clear Jared Kushner (Affinity Partners) and Steve Witkoff (The Witkoff Group) could score economically if Iran could be steered into Western alliances.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU. their brash TechGod brethren and Israel. For all that expensive and expansive love (elected officials/PEUs/TechGods/Israel), the common person suffers. Balance, long absent, should be restored.
Trump II's pursuit of global assets expanded greatly this morning with the latest U.S./Israeli attack on Iran. Trump overloaded the region with military might and decided to use it in the midst of negotiating with Iran over a program he obliterated. He did virtually the same thing last June, attack mid-negotiation.
Donning a USA golf cap Trump II announced his goals for the war this morning from Mara-Lago, Florida's new Wall Street where the deals keep on coming.
Trump II posted the video on his Truth Social account. It has a George W. Bush/John McCain feel to it. Our bombing makes others free. Ask the Iraqis or the Libyans how that worked.
There is nothing on the official White House website about the attack on Iran (under "News"), so Truth Social has the exclusive video. What a media win for the possible spin-off!
Trump expects citizens sheltering in place to leave their doors, pick up the pieces and takeover the government when he is done violating their country. Just as in Venezuela, Trump II will decide who leads, not the Iranian people.
Trump II's envoys, Jared Kushner (Affinity Partners) and Steve Witkoff (The Witkoff Group) are skilled in the art of the hostile takeover as private equity underwriters (PEU). Iran has many desirable assets and western economic powers want in (PEUs and TechGods). Recall that PEUs stack the Board of Peace (Pieces of Eight) where Trump II is Chairman for Life.
The rapidly changing global political environment provides economic opportunity for the well placed.
Greed has its own siren call. Violence creates more violence. Destruction and killing are not empowerment.
Operation Epic Savage Whim is underway in conjunction with the USA's 51st state Israel.
Iranians see the taking of Gaza and the West Bank by Israel and Trump II.
Trump told Iran's military and police, total surrender or death. It had an Elon Musk "resign with pay or be DOGEd" feel to it. Which is the lesser of the two evils? Isn't that always the deal presented by Trump II, TechGods and/or PEUs to the little people?
The Iranian people will decide. Given Trump is the most aloof of our recent Presidential "regime changers" (W., Obama and now the Donarch) I'll be shocked if they erect a giant statue of Trump in the middle of Tehran. However, Jared's "New Iran" promo video may show one.
Lord, hear our prayer. Watch over and protect those in harm's way because of greedy, impulsive leaders. God bless us all. Help us Lord, survive their savage whims.
Update: Truth Social's video post is now nine hours old. Trump II also posted it on Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter.
The White House posted the video under Live News. One has to click on Livestream and then scroll down on the Live News to find the video, which is also posted on YouTube. It was posted around the time the video hit Truth Social and X.
Trump II's plummeting poll standing is similar to Obama's where Trump offered in 2012:
As for Obama's bombing Syria, Trump once thought Congress had a vital role:
“What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long term conflict? Obama needs Congressional approval,” Trump tweeted in August 2013.
Familiar story for the Reds & Blues. Our guy does it, that's OK. Your guy needs approval.
Trump II excels at diversion, cruelty, destruction and taking. A Red Team member of Congress called the attack on Iran an "act of love" on CNN. Nonsense.
Now we know why elected officials never did anything about Jeffrey Epstein's long lasting pedophile operation. Politicians can justify anything with the most bizarre statements.
The American people do not like war as much as our Presidents have over the last few decades. Trump's signature promise was to keep the U.S. out of foreign entanglements and drop the pattern of imposing regime change. That must be quite the temptation given politicians Red & Blue have repeatedly succumbed to its siren call.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new brash TechGod brethren. Trump is imposing their unrestrained will on the world.
Greenland, Cuba, Canada .... the list of acquisition targets is a biblical scroll.
I expect the world to spit it all back up. If it does not, the darkest days lay ahead.
The U.S./Israeli attack on Iran killed Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei (*Trump II Truth Social). He wrote:
...the Country has been, in only one day, very much destroyed and, even, obliterated. The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!
So exactly when are the Iranians to come out of their homes and join with surrendered military and police forces? The heavy hand of willful destruction, uninterrupted throughout the week, is the very antithesis of peace.
Trump II wants fealty and an ever growing net worth. His PEU/TechGod sponsors want access to markets and more of Uncle Sam's wallet and government protections.
Update: Bombs killed Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei. That's one way to oust a Chief Executive.
"Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue."
Trump II does not do the latter.
Update 3-4-26: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump II went to war "on a feeling based on fact." Ah yes, the Trump savage whim. We know it all too well.
Trump II is disconnected from reality. The political Red team needs to wake up and realize the Digital Caligula is wearing a coat made of cryptocurrency and his inadequate password is showing.
The Pentagon is using AI in Trump II's War of Choice on Iran. It just switched AI providers mid-war, going from Anthropic to OpenAI.
All those libertarian TechGods who thought Biden wanted WW3 have a sock in it for Trump II, their frequent panhandler. At some point they may prefer taxes over frequent phone calls to fund pet projects, including Trump's meme-coin and other family boondoggles.
Federal funding for childcare is a separate program than Medicaid. HHS froze childcare funds for five states in January due to fraud concerns. An HHS press release from January 6, 2026 ended with:
Funds will remain frozen in this fashion until ACF completes a review and determines that states are in compliance with federal requirements.
Whoa! Whoa! What have past reviews found about state programs and their compliance with federal requirements. It's hard to know given the website is not current.
In Spring 2025 TechGod Elon Musk's DOGE decimated HHS' Office of Child Care.
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Child Care (OCC)—the federal office that administers the CCDF program—by half this spring, including closing five of ten regional offices without any assessment of program operations or needs, an ignorant and short-sighted act. The OCC is staffed by experts in federal and state child care policy, fiscal management, child development, data analysis, and monitoring and oversight. They help support state, territory, and tribal governments in their implementation of the $12 billion federal child care program and make sure federal dollars are maximized to help meet each state’s specific child care challenges and opportunities.
Trump just threw $250 million in Medicaid funds into a freezer over childcare fraud concerns. He'd already withheld $2 billion in Medicaid funding for the state of Minnesota.
It has a private equity underwriter (PEU) feel to it given staffing has been obliterated (50% cut) and quality/compliance reviews halted (likely not funded). DOGE was the PEU playbook applied to government.
I'm sure staff in the Office of Child Care are appalled the Medicaid money has been frozen in addition to federal child care funds. People are hurting and most don't have the funds to cover interruptions in federal support for healthcare or child care.
JD Vance should know. He's a former TechGod and U.S. Senator. who once lived hand to mouth in Ohio and Kentucky.
Trump II said sometimes you have to use force. He left off the again. Trump and Israel teamed up to obliterate Iran's nuclear program in June 2025. A mere eight months later it appears Trump needs a redo.
Our international bully made a "steep list of demands" said The Independent. Negotiating that list of demands with Iran are two private equity underwriters (PEU), Jared Kushner of Affinity Partners and Steve Witkoff of The Witkoff Group.
but it was notable that the two American negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, remained silent about the current status of negotiations, with the White House declining to comment.
That pair is used to non-disclosure agreements, so secrecy is not surprise. Also, they know never to steal their boss' stage or spotlight.
Everything these guys do is economic. If you design the board it's easier to move the pieces. It also helps if you have a captive law firm like Steve Witkoff.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one. Iran is being encouraged to join our system of influence. Who better to show them that than Kushner and Witkoff?
Three Crown Princes are involved in Iranian regime change, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Saudi Arabia), Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi (Son of former Shah of Iran) and Prince William of the United Kingdom.
Two U.S. private equity underwriters (PEU), Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are negotiating with the current Iranian regime, the one that Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States wants removed from power.
America's Unitary Executive, our Donarch, loaded the Middle East with military firepower, the likes which the world has never seen. The former co-equal branch of government, Congress, has gone prostrate before Trump II's endless series of savage whims.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent a letter to a United Arab Emirates royal family member. The topic dealt with UAE actions in Yemen and Sudan.
That UAE official secretly bought a 49% stake in Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial for $500 million prior to Trump II's inauguration.
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed controls $1.5 trillion in UAE investment funds and is himself a TechGod.
I recall being puzzled as to why a UAE investment fund would use a World Liberty stable-coin (USD1) for its $2 billion Binance stake. It turns out to have not been an arm's length choice, given the Sheikh's 49% WLFI stake. Rather than compliance history, I would cite conflict of interest for that selection.
One can begin to see a pattern of money and justice washing back and forth in a global power cesspool.
Another benefit was the approval of advanced computer chips for MGX's AI company, G42. The Sheikh is also the Chairman of G42.
Many of those new MGX funded data centers are being built right here in the U.S.
The Week wrote a story titled "Corruption: The spy sheikh and the president."
A portion of his MGX bio is below:
His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan got a break regarding the other big global story, the Jeffrey Epstein files. Tahnoon received only one mention is the millions of documents.
The UAE's Sultan Bin Sulayem, former CEO of DPWorld, sent Epstein an e-mail about a Christian monastery and church on Sir Bani Yas Island.
"We are delighted to be opening this ancient site to=the public, which gives visitors an insight into the rich history of Sir
Ba=i Yas Island and the UAE," said Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan, the ch=irman of the Tourism Development and
Investment Company (TDIC). "We are pro=d of our heritage and are therefore focused on creating a multi-experience
t=urism destination where guests are able to enjoy a variety of activities, w=ile protecting and preserving the history and
culture of our country, as we=l as the natural environment of the island."
I'm sure Epstein wanted to buy the island and defile the site.
Not as lucky regarding his relations with Jeffrey Epstein is Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman. Epstein dropped the "bin Salman" name to a NYT financial reporter, hoping it would open some kind of door.
The Saudis/Gates/Trump crowd has been updated to the Saudis/Israelis/UAE/Trump crowd, which is remaking the Middle East on behalf of TechGods and private equity underwriters (PEU).
It is a princely and rather inbred affair.
Update: Today's negotiations with Iran ended without an agreement.
The Witkoff Group's Steve Witkoff and Affinity Partners' Jared Kushner are meeting with Iranian officials in Geneva, Switzerland to avoid the war Trump II has setup by overloading the region with U.S. military might. Peace is in the hands of an unrestrained U.S. President and two private equity underwriters (PEU).
Trump II's son-in-law Jared Kushner has the pulse of "the rapidly changing global political and economic environment." He should given Kushner's Affinity Partners holds several billion in Saudi and Middle Eastern money with the aim of delivering grand returns.
Earlier this month two princes met, Prince William of the UK and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, who is on the path to Kinghood. The Saudi Royal family recently weighed in on the Iran solution being "regime change."
Israel jumped on the Iran regime change bus long ago.
Recent protests in Iran spilled lots of blood but garnered no U.S. or Israeli support.
Is anyone having flashbacks to 2003-2007 given all the international and financial freedom being pursued? JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon did with his comments on crazy financial products and obscene leverage.
Trump II ran on the anti-Bush side of the political Red Team. He looks "very W." at the moment, only Bush's folksy political charm has been replaced by a swirling golden topped dome atop President Trump. Its hair-trigger "offense is the best defense" dome system is activated by greed or anger. In other words, it finds massive profit opportunity nearly everywhere and is ceaselessly offended. Trump's golden dome never stops firing.
And Mr. Witkoff? He threw out a fresh WMD warning and spilled our negotiating strategy to AIPAC donors. Every important country supports Crown Prince Pahlavi, the son of the brutal Shah. Yes, there is a third prince to this story.
Surely, the Witkoff Group's profit opportunities are endless in such an insular regime (U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia), where money trumps everything.
Iran has a bright PEUture. All they need to do is have their politicians, whatever color, love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. It's a global movement, where nearly all are one, including Reza Pahlavi.
Join or be obliterated. I believe that is the message.
Update 2-26-26: Today's negotiations with Iran ended without an agreement.
It's wrong for consumers pinched by rising prices (tariff juiced), wrong for Greenland, wrong for the thousands of victims of Jeffrey Epstein protected by America's political power players to this day, wrong for the Constitution which specifies three co-equal branches of government and wrong for the Founding Fathers who were clear on the separation of church and state. It's also wrong for any international organization pursuing peace and not economic extortion (piece).
It's right for the Trump family making billions from front running government policy, right for the currency of criminals (Bitcoin), and right for the private equity underwriter (PEU)/TechGod class as Uncle Sam looks to finance affiliate sales domestically and abroad. It's even more right for the fraudsters of the world and election insurrectionists pardoned by Trump and given free reign to repeat their crimes under a cop-less beat.
Many independent voters pulled the Trump lever for economic growth and stability. Instead they got a firehose of uninhibited TechGod disruption, Trump insulting/demeaning the rest of the world and a never ending series of savage whims (many with purloining aims).
Trump II will speak tonight, much of it hyperbole and bombastic nonsense. That is if he is true to himself and his many sociopathic advisors. Know this Mr. President, independent voters hate that very thing. And we badly wish to vote this November.
I quit watching the annual Red/Blue cheerleading "State of the Union" session years ago, preferring to read the transcript instead for anything of actual substance.
The theatrics will be spectacular given Trump II's ego, which loves a performance. My money is on the cranky, old man side with endless grievances dominating. I hope he proves me wrong.
As for the political Red Team they are buttoning up a few items, which will get no play in this evening's speech.
Horrible behavior turns into secret settlements which the government ignores. It's a very familiar story.
Update 2-25-26: Trump's State of the Union speech was record long. It fulfilled its mission of being a vacuous cheer session for the Reds. Congress supplicated at every turn to the fast and loose playing Chief Executive. Boo says this independent voter. It's the run-up to something, a financial crisis, a regional war....
Update 2-26-26: Trump II's speech drew an estimated 32.6 million viewers, reported Nielsen. It was down 4 million from last year's speech to a joint session of Congress and his lowest rated State of the Union ever. Nearly 75% of viewers were age 55 or older.
Update 3-4-26: Scumbag Red Team Congressman Tony Gonzales finally admitted the affair he initiated and forced upon an employee. The House of Charlatans voted to keep sexual harassment reports secret. Tony got a message from God that he'd already been forgiven for his abusive dalliances.
Trump II's glass ego could not take a verbal shot from Netflix board member Susan Rice. It shattered into a thousand pieces but magically came back together after being placed into a Gaza stable coin press. I can picture Trump ordering his re-assemblers to get the jaw right. Thus, the public will have to endure his "State of My Ego" speech before Congress and the Supremes tomorrow night.
The political Red Team must be defecating in their drawers over a U.S. President dictating board membership to a company with a pending merger under federal review. But this is Trump II, the role model for sitting/walking with significant bowel activity.
Susan Rice was a private equity underwriter (PEU) with Amplo, a global venture capital firm. As recently as 2024 Rice served as Senior Advisor to the RAND Corporation, "exploring the national security and geopolitical implications of artificial intelligence" and as "Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence."
Stanford University was the place where TechGod Eric Schmidt encouraged students to commit intellectual property theft and later try to reach a settlement if their AI product actually made money. Trump II's White House is actively marketing TechGod AI throughout the globe.
My guess is Trump's "savage whims" cost many Blue political members corporate slots and he wants more of the same. He needs to act as his power is evaporating by the day.
Trump wants to upset the applecart that is politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. Like any creep, Trump wants all that PEU/TechGod love solely for himself.
There is another creep that may enter the 2028 Presidential race for the Blue team.
Rahm Emanuel's Centerview Partners may be on the same side as Trump II in the Warner Bros Discovery buyout. Centerview's Anthony Kim and Blair Effron advised Paramount on its current WBD bid and a prior merger with Skydance.
I cannot picture a worse candidate for President from the Blue Team if our country is to reverse the outsized and distorting influence of the PEU/TechGod class. Rahm Emanuel (Wassterstein Perella) is and has long been one.
Also, if anyone can out support Israel over Trump II, it's Rahm.
TechGods Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are newsworthy given their outsized role in U.S. politics and their history of causing widespread harm.
Almost half of a San Francisco jury pool was disqualified after declaring their hatred for Musk who employed the private equity underwriter (PEU) playbook at DOGE.
It turns out TechGids are not fans of their products for their children. Many TechGods severely limit screen time for their offspring.
After his blistering Presidential defeat in 2020 Trump became a TechGod with TruthSocial.
Trump II branched into other product offerings from TruthSocial, which now offers ETFs. Next came World Liberty Financial, which has the USD1 stable coin and the WLFI token. World Lirbety now wants to be a bank.
Trump II's administration just approved Erebor Bank, the captive bank of Anduril and new Bank of the TechGods. Peter Thiel started the bank run that took down Silicon Valley Bank. Would he start another on Erebor, where Thiel has an ownership stake?
Did you know Uncle Sam has an "all of government approach" to marketing TechGod AI products/services?
WhiteHouse.govadded more benefits for the billionaire AI clans.
...new U.S. initiatives to accelerate global adoption of the American AI stack through the American AI Exports Program, including:
The American AI Exports Program’s National Champions Initiative: The Commerce Department will incorporate partner nations’ leading AI companies into their customized American AI Export stacks, demonstrating that American technology directly strengthens and builds domestic AI capabilities.
The U.S. Tech Corps: A new initiative of the Peace Corps, the U.S. Tech Corps will provide volunteer technical talent with import partners to provide last-mile support in deploying powerful AI applications for enhanced public services.
New International Financing: The Treasury Department is launching a new fund at the World Bank to help countries overcome AI adoption barriers, in addition to new financing programs launched at the Export-Import Bank, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, the State Department, and the Small Business Administration.
NIST/CAISI’s AI Agent Standards Initiative: The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced it will facilitate the development of interoperable and secure standards for agentic AI, giving the public confidence in this next-generation technology.
As the Trump Administration unveils a whole-of-government strategy to promote American AI exports, it brings to the India AI Impact Summit a clear message: American AI is the gold standard, and we are sharing it with our partners to secure our shared future.
The State of the TechGod/PEU Union is strong thanks to Trump II. Creeps supporting creeps. It's a PEU way street.
Update 2-26-26: Trump II's speech drew an estimated 32.6 million viewers, reported Nielsen. It was down 4 million from last year's speech to a joint session of Congress and his lowest rated State of the Union ever. Nearly 75% of viewers were age 55 or older.
The "currency of criminals" got a big boost yesterday at the inaugural World Liberty Forum attended by a who's who of corporate chiefs, crypto thieves and government lackeys (today's insanity).
Two U.S. Senators lent their good name to the Trump boys by speaking at the event. Both are members of the political Red Team, Ashley Moody of Florida and Bernie Moreno of Ohio.
Moreno's state was just awarded approval for a new bank, Erebor Bank, the captive bank of Anduril and future home of TechGod bank accounts (complete with FDIC coverage). Erebor will accept crypto as collateral for loans. Yipppeeee!!!
Just prior to his inauguration Trump II made two major crypto moves. One, he launched his $TRUMP "Fight Fight Fight" memecoin and two, he sold a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial to a United Arab Emirates Sultan. The UAE was the first to use WLFI's stablecoin (USD1) for its $2 billion investment in Binance.
$TRUMP is down to $3.39 from an all time high of $73.43. It has lost over 95% of its value. Worry not, MAGA supporters, the Trump boys have something special for you.
World Liberty Financial, in which the Trump family holds a reported 38% stake, unveiled a partnership with the Apex Group that could help mainstream the company’s digital stablecoin, called USD1, and plans to use that stablecoin to finance a new Trump-branded hotel with luxury floating villas in the Maldives.
What kind of person is needed to keep the chicanery going? One who looks the other way regarding insiders behaving unethically or illegally.
We know what decades of "deferring to insiders" produced, don't we Larry Summers? Cheat'em House Rules? Good show, Chap!
Yesterday's insanity is clearly available for all to see through the Epstein window.
Private equity underwriters (PEU), which sponsored Epstein, aligned with government officials for multiple reasons ( keeping low tax rates, political influence, tapping government budgets, ensuring low interest rates, ignoring criminal behavior, regulatory avoidance...).
Britain's Prince Andrew gave confidential trade reports to Epstein and is now under arrest. Did those trade reports prompt Epstein to invest in Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures or Coinbase?
Today's insanity grew out of yesterday's but is far brasher and in your face. The Trump boys declared their conflicts of interest were forced up them. Horse hockey!
Don Jr. called regulated, government backed banks a "ponzi scheme", when crypto has "pump and dumps" and "rug pulls." TechGods want their own everything, money, bank, country. The sordid Trump clan will deliver it all for a large cut.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new, brasher TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one. It is all in the PEU/TechGod family.
"...(the $35 million) settlement would bar Epstein’s victims from "asserting, commencing, instituting, prosecuting, continuing to prosecute, or maintaining in any court of law or equity, arbitration tribunal, or administrative forum any and all" of the discharged claims against (Darren) Indyke and (Richard) Kahn — Epstein's longtime lawyer and accountant, respectively — who were accused in the underlying class action of facilitating and concealing Epstein's sex trafficking operations for their own financial gain."
Update 2-23-26: Bain & Co reported private equity profits were down for the fourth straight year.
The Trump boys hosted a crypto confab at Mar-a-Lago with Wall Street, elected/government officials and cryptobros. It was the inaugural World Liberty Forum.
Don Jr. explained how a Middle Eastern investor already earned a four bagger on his 49% stake in WLFI. Don didn't say if he used his father's whimsical math formulas to calculate those returns.
Brother Eric also hosted the event. As it was a "carefully curated event", elected officials needed to be in the room. WLFI got two U.S. Senators, Bernie Moreno from Ohio (home of the new Erebor Bank) and Ashley Moody from Florida (where Palm Beach is the new Silicon Valley/Botox Alley).
It wouldn't be a Trump event without a cabinet member and some shameless hawking of wares.
I wonder if the insider crowd will reminisce about Jeffrey Epstein's early investments in Valar Ventures or Coinbase.
Beware the visionary Sheikh-down. It can be done "the easy way or the hard way, right boys?"
