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Five days after Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2024, great.
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These are our friends.
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We have thousands of friends on this his son Don Jr got a new job as well as a partner at a little known private investment fund called 1789 capital.
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since the election, the companies in that fund have won billions in federal government contracts.
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leading up to Trump's second term.
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These are what Don Jr and Eric's estimated net worth were, respectively.
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These numbers have changed drastically in the two years since, and I want to talk about Because we found that when you follow the money far enough, it stops going out and instead moves in a circle.
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By the end of this video, we're going to add it all up, and the number is going to shock you.
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When Trump announced he was running again, Don Jr found a partner, a man named Amid Malik.
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February 2025, both brothers became advisers to a company called Domino Holdings through dominance.
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They bought stakes in a US construction company called Skyline Builders, using a shell company called American Ventures.
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Skyline then merged with Cove Cars Capital, a mining company sitting on a tungsten deposit in Kazakhstan.
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Tungsten is critical to military equipment like armor piercing ammunition, hypersonic weapons, and F-35 engines.
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The sons invested in August 2025.
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One month later, Kazakh President Tokayev personally told Trump he was awarding the project to Cove CAS over competing bids from China and Russia.
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Trump and Marco Rubio gave direct assistance, according to the company's own investor presentation filed with the SEC.
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the project has been secured, up to $1.6 billion in U.S.
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government backed financing.
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we've only just scratched the surface.
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The Trump Suns also co-founded crypto and bitcoin companies that attracted hundreds of millions in investments from foreign governments.
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incredibly proud to be part of the crypto industry.
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More Perfect Union reported on this crypto network in a previous investigation.
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in the crypto industry.
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Now I'm going to walk you through a few more companies.
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And what happened to each of them after 1789?
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Capital invested.
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And I'll add it all up right here as we go.
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In July 2025, 1789, invested in a company called Hadrian Automation.
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Hadrian was founded in 2020 and had no significant government contracts.
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Eight months later, it won a $900 million Navy contract to build automated submarine factories and an $80 million Army contract.
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That's $980 million total, all to a company that had never won a major government contract before.
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Don Jr's fond invested in Here's another one.
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Firehawk aerospace, whose entire government contract history fits in a single line.
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It had just one contract in 2022, and then 1789 invests and suddenly there winning Air Force and Space Force deals worth $8.9 million, plus a land gift in Oklahoma.
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And sometimes the perk goes beyond the money.
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1789 invested in reflection AI in 2025, and by May 2026, it became one of only eight AI companies in the country allowed to deploy inside Pentagon classified networks.
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Here's a company called Andrew that makes the autonomous weapons systems that define modern warfare, like drones and AI powered surveillance towers, and after 1789, invested.
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In June of 2025, the company won a $367 million border surveillance contract and a $23.9 million Army deal.
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It also has a potential 20 billion. Yes.
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Billion with AB.
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Army consolidation deal in the works so big a number that it totally dwarfs everything else on this list, but we can't even count it.
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So I'll just do 367 million plus 23.9 million.
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of all of these, there's one example that stands apart because this is one where we have proof the white House directly intervened.
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Falcon elements, a three year old startup with 30 employees that makes rare earth magnets.
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In August 2025, 1789, invested in Vulcan as a part of a $65 million funding round.
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Three months later, the Pentagon gave them a $620 million loan.
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Rare earth magnets are vital to military technology, and as the name suggests, they are rare.
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China has complete dominance over the industry.
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Both Democrats and Republicans have tried to change that.
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So Trump isn't the first to consider a loan of this sort.
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it went out without competitive bids without the technical disclosures that are used to verify whether a project is even viable before public money goes in.
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That was waived.
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the push for this loan came directly from Peter Navarro, Trump's senior trade adviser and a close personal friend of Don Jr.
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So close that Don Jr visited Navarro in prison and was one of the few people Navarro's latest book was dedicated He's a friend legitimately can't believe that this is happening to him, One Pentagon employee told ProPublica that the call came, quote, from the white House.
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We have to get this done, Staff worked late nights for weeks to push the loan through when deals like this normally take months.
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the time of 1789, investment Vulcan was valued at around 200 million.
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After the Pentagon loan, the valuation jumped to nearly $2 billion.
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technically, this one's alone.
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Not a contract, but it's still $620 million of our tax money going to a three year old startup with fewer employees than your local target, with no competitive process in a phone call from the white House to push it through.
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So I'm going to count it So it turns out the fastest way to win a government contract is to put the president's son on your board.
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I want to bring us back to Eric, because this is where things get really egregious.
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Power us is a drone company that both brothers invested in, in April 2026, it won an Air Force contract to sell interceptor drones.
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How much was never disclosed.
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Then there's another drone company, Unusual Machines.
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Don Jr is an advisor with a financial stake in the company.
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An October 2025 at one what its own CEO called, quote, the largest government contract in the company's history.
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The amount was also never disclosed.
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Unusual machines signed a $5 million supply deal with powers, so government money flows to power.
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US powers, pays unusual machines, Eric gets paid and Don Jr gets paid twice.
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It's a loop.
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This is the type of mechanism that helps Don Jr go from 50 million to 300 million, and helps Eric go from 40 million to 400 million.
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The contracts don't go to them directly, but they do go to the companies and they own pieces of these companies.
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So every government contract makes those pieces worth much more.
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the fund is still growing.
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Currently managing $3.5 billion in assets with a stated goal of $10 billion.
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So how is any of this legal?
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If a mid-level contract worker at a Navy base owns stock in a company bidding for one of her contracts, she would lose her job.
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She would likely face criminal charges, too.
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for Don Jr and Eric, there's nothing.
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No law covers the president's children.
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There's no requirement to recuse themselves from decisions that benefit their investments.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这段视频共有 81 个句子、1149 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 9:18。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 124 个词，很适合跟读。 82% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| invest 动词 | /ɪnˈvɛst/ | 耗費 /耗费, 投資 /投资 |
| drone 名词 | /dɹoʊn/ | 雄蜂 |
| unusual 形容词 | /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/ | 稀有 |
| bid 动词 | /bɪd/ | 出價 /出价, 投標 /投标 |
| surveillance 名词 | /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/ | 監測 /监测, 監視 /监视 |
| stake 名词 | /steɪk/ | 木樁 /木桩 |
| disclose 动词 | /dɪsˈkləʊz/ | 泄露 |
| dominance 名词 | /ˈdɑmɪnəns/ | 優勢 /优势, 支配地位 |
| startup 名词 | /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/ | 初創公司 /初创公司, 新創企業 /新创企业 |
| magnet 名词 | /ˈmæɡ.nɪt/ | 磁鐵 /磁铁, 磁石 |
| element 名词 | /ˈɛləmənt/ | 要素 |
| shock 名词 | /ʃɔk/ | 衝擊 /冲击 |
| respectively 副词 | /ɹɪˈspɛktɪvli/ | 分別 /分别, 各自 |
| worker 名词 | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | 工人, 工作者 |
| compete 动词 | /kəmˈpiːt/ | 競爭 /竞争, 高下 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 释义 |
|---|---|
| go out 动词 | 出, 出口 |
| turn out 动词 | 原來 /原来 |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 10 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 can't, I'll, I'm。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, shock /ʃɔk/, shell /ʃɛl/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, respectively /ɹɪˈspɛktɪvli/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 invest, drone, unusual 这类单词。
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | has been secured · was founded · was waived |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | have won · have changed · has been secured |
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。