Trump's Hostile Takeover of Iran Underway

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.

Update 3-1-26:  Pope Leo XIV offered:

"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.

Update 3-17-26:  A Semafor newsletter stated:

Admiral James Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO and a vice chair at Carlyle, told Semafor last year that a postwar Iran could be “the big investment opportunity in the Middle East.” An educated population of 90 million people with good demographic trends and a strong national culture — “they believe in themselves as Persians,” he said — could “look like the reconstruction of the Korean peninsula after the end of the Korean War.”

TechGods and PEUs want to profit from the war as well as its aftermath.  

What Does Childcare Have to Do with Medicaid?

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.    

Dr. Oz is a former PEU with Radius Ventures and his son-in-law is the current beneficiary of state capitalism.

What does federal childcare have to do with Medicaid?  Nothing.  

Update 3-1-26:  The Hill did a story on political risks from the Medicaid withhold stunt.

Force Needed for Something Obliterated

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. 

NYT reported

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?

Remaking Middle East - Donarch, Monarchs & AI Creeps

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.

Iran's PEUture

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.

Update 2-28-26:  Trump II's hostile takeover of Iran is underway.  Lord help us all.

Update 3-17-26:  The obliteration is entering its third week.  A Semafor newsletter stated:

Admiral James Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO and a vice chair at Carlyle, told Semafor last year that a postwar Iran could be “the big investment opportunity in the Middle East.” An educated population of 90 million people with good demographic trends and a strong national culture — “they believe in themselves as Persians,” he said — could “look like the reconstruction of the Korean peninsula after the end of the Korean War.”

TechGods and PEUs want to profit from the war as well as its aftermath.  

The State of Trump II's Ego is Wrong

The state of Trump II's ego is wrong.  

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 Usurps Netflix Board

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.

The Great State of the TechGod/PEU Union

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.gov added 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.  

Window into Yesterday's & Today's Insanity

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.

NYPost reported:

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.

Update 2-21-26:  Courthouse News reported:

"...(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.

World Liberty Holds "Carefully Curated" Future Forum

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?"  

Prominent PEU Names in Epstein Files

Creep Jeffrey Epstein sold Howard Lutnick a New York City townhouse for $10.  That's what happens when you are in good graces in the insider money funnel.  

Trump II was named by an underage girl as having "forced her head down to his exposed penis."

Private equity underwriters (PEU) Leon Black (Apollo) and Glenn Dubin (Highbridge Capital) were mentioned by victims as getting massages with the Epstein treatment.  

Trump's "Just Us" Department is yet to meet with Epstein's victims who want co-conspirators and abusers identified.

Time will reveal if that actually happens given politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.  Insiders protected their own for decades.  That is clear for the world to see.

Contempt for It All

Our Health & Human Services Secretary revealed he'd snorted cocaine off a toilet seat to show his germ braveness and contempt for the law.  

Pollution regulations do not apply to the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.  And both of these men are in the Trump-Epstein files,  a world of the rich and powerful where women play a distinctly subservient role

Get ready for more billionaire gas emissions, courtesy of Trump II.  In a meeting with oil executives the President suddenly got up and lumbered over to the window facing the former East Wing of the White House.  Some speculated Trump II had a gastrointestinal motive for his foray.  

Trump II and his TechGods show us every day how much power they have and how little anyone else possesses.  Congress and the Supremes are yet to reign in Trump, the digital Caligula, in any serious manner.  Let's hope that changes soon.

The Constitution provides no room for the Executive Branch to direct elections.  That power is given to the states and can be adjusted by Congress.  Usurping that is typical Trump II and shows his contempt for the rights of others.  

Toilet seat, pollution, deregulating emissions, defecating on the Constitution...please sir, I'd love to inhale more billionaire gas straight from your intestinal tract.  And then, may I have another one?  

If your cabinet, oil executives, TechGods and private equity underwriters (PEU) can do it and survive, I'll take my chances.  

I'll pull your finger when you quit pulling my leg with your ceaseless mistruths and dodgy diversions.

Update 2-15-26:  The New Yorker reported Trump advisor Steve Bannon advised Epstein on reputation rehab:

Bannon wrote, “we must counter ‘rapist who traffics in female children to be raped by worlds most powerful, richest men’---that can’t be redeemed.”

Epstein gamed multiple systems, immigration, peace prizes, the corporate world, even stolen art.

Leon Black and other private equity underwriters (PEU) coached Jeffrey well.

Feds Got Rothstein, Not Epstein.

The Epstein files have numerous documents related to $1.2 billion Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, who looked at Donald J. Trump as a role model.   

The homemade video shows billion-dollar Ponzi criminal Scott Rothstein sitting in the back of a limousine on his way to Yankee Stadium, a glass of vodka in his hand, lecturing to several children -- relatives and family friends -- who are attending the baseball game with him. 

"Here's one thing you should learn about me that's really important, everybody pays attention," Rothstein said. "If you are going to attack me in any fashion, be prepared for the counter-attack and understand that I duel with people much much smarter than you every day. Understand that the repercussions of engaging me could open the gates of hell. Understand that I am capable of evil far beyond anything your imagination could ever conjure up." 

A voice from behind the camera pipes up: "I can verify this as actual fact." The voice is that of Steve Caputi, a partner with Rothstein in the Café Iguana nightclub in Pembroke Pines and one of his closest friends "

He said, 'Listen, Trump operates the same way, the politicians operate the same way, when there's a problem you fix it," he said. "Sometimes you go outside the rules. Everybody does it, that's how it's done. That's how you get to the top." 

And Caputi rode along as Rothstein's meteoric rise began until both of them were hobnobbing with Donald Trump at his Mar-A-Lago estate. 

He said Trump was one of Rothstein's idols and Trump returned the respect in a big way one night at an event at the lavish Palm Beach spread. 

"Donald Trump puts his arm around Scott and says, 'You know, people you're looking at probably the next United States Attorney General,'" Caputi said. "And Scott's trying to look all modest, and Arlen Specter chirps in and says, 'Maybe someday a president of the United States.' And the whole room explodes with applause like the floor of a convention."

Rothstein used his ill gotten gains for influence peddling.  The perpetrator was looking at a reduced sentence (a la Jeffrey Epstein) but the government reversed their offer:

Prosecutors withdrew their motion two years ago to reduce Rothstein’s sentence based on his cooperation in the sprawling racketeering investigation because he provided “false” information and violated his plea agreement.

Sound familiar?   

Rothstein's co-conspirators were investigated, charged and convicted.  

Epstein's psychologist was the victim of a different fraud from financial advisor Donald Hardman.  He copied Epstein on communications with his attorney on settling the fraudulent debt with Regions Bank.  

Local law enforcement took an interest in the Hardman case, just as they had with Rothstein

Epstein started at $20,000 to settle a $200,000 debt plus interest.  The offer rose to $50,000.  It appears they settled on $75,000.   

Makes you wonder about Palm Beach, the new Wall Street given how many financial firms have located offices there.  

Trump II disabled white collar criminal investigatory capacity and ring fenced numerous areas as off limits for investigation.  He even appointed a white collar crime defense attorney as Ambassador to the United Nations.  

Should Trump pardon Scott Rothstein he could fulfill that Attorney General prognostication.  Pam Bondi's bombastic thugery is getting stale.