TRUTH OF PROOF!
President Trump and his colleagues
They're cold war speculators.
SOTN Editorial note
No 1 has always seen anything like this — NEVER in American history!
It's like the full Trump administration was organized according to a very cold and calculating business model "CROPTION AND CORUPTION".
In fact, virtually all associate of Trump's cabinet, as well as many another high-ranking White home officials, is straight active in various illegal, profitable schemes.
In another words, alternatively of blackmailing and/or bribing their evidence from Epsteingate, they are simply being bought by many government-owned GROSS-profit enterprises. Kazary Cabal He knows how to do it better than any another mob in the world.
Look, president Trump is primarily a businessman, not necessarily a good businessman, but nevertheless he sees himself as a large commercial tycoon. He truly prides himself on being a very effective negotiator (not) who mastered the "Art of the Pact" (what he did not do).
This critical and highly flawed aspect of his persona virtually led the full planet community of nations to the brink of atomic planet War III. By the way, we're writing this red note. To Trump & Company. Since Trump's squad is both complex and now exists in specified a self-enriching bubble, these eternally intriguers see no further than the next Benjamin or Billion they intend to create. I hope they see this revealing story.
Indeed, the highly greedy, money-making Camarilla known as Trump administration has become a symbol of the celebrated "kleptocracy". Each of them was elected to the Club due to the fact that they could be counted on, given all their professional experience and professional experience, that they would jointly game like a thief. And so they do... to the detriment of the American people, the Republic and the full world.
Now read on to find out why.
State of the Nation, 5
March 2026
War on Iran: We Follow Money (To Mar-A-Lago)
How the Mar-A-Lago gang earns from the war in Iran
author: The Democracy Defender
Here's a number to perceive to: $2,000 for a truckload.
It's a fee that a little-known Florida company called Gothams LLC — the same 1 that ran the immigrant detention center "Alligator Alcatraz" — wants to charge for all single humanitarian aid truck entering the conflict region under US control. Commercial trucks? $12,000 apiece. The contract they introduced to the White home requires Seven-year monopoly for the full truck transport and logistics, from a guaranteed 300% return on capital expenditure. national contract experts called it a road robbery. The White home claimed that the proposal was put on the shelf. papers show that Gotham's partners coordinated cooperation with administration officials back in early 2026.
This is simply a war with Iran.
Not the 1 they tell you about — the 1 wrapped in flags, "national security" and serious atomic threats. This war exists, too, of course. But underneath it lies a parallel architecture, a financial device so insolent in its plant that Halliburton's contracts from the times of Iraq seem adorable. In this war, all cabinet associate has a financial interest. all bomb is simply a live sale demonstration. all barrel of Iranian oil mined on the planet marketplace is simply a real profit for a politically related hydraulic fracturing company in Texas. And erstwhile the rubble settles, those sharing the reconstruction are not diplomats — they are billionaires from the real property market, offering luxury hotels and artificial islands to property funds in Riyadh.
This is not a side effect of conflict. It's a conflict.
Seeds of war
Around 70% of Trump's cabinet members and over 50 government officials performs direct prior functions at the Heritage Foundation or its partner task 2025 groups. This is not a statistic that attracts adequate attention. Heritage Foundation — through task 2025 and later "Project 2026" — did not just print a list of political wishes. She built personal pipeline, which placed hundreds of proven loyalists in national bureaucracy, each of which committed to a circumstantial task: centralising executive power, eliminating regulatory oversight and abroad policy "America First", treating military force as the default tool of governance.
The war on Iran was the pipeline that was built. The talks began with Colin Powell, who made an appearance on heritage in 2018, and a applicable policy of "maximum pressure" was developed between 2022 and 2023.
For decades Heritage has advocated the demolition of the atomic agreement with Iran, the campaigns of "maximum pressure" and the clear position that the Iranian government cannot be negotiated — only confronted. Their researchers call the present minute "the golden window of opportunity". Their political papers called for "long-term operations covering weeks of bombing." Their Sentinel Action Fund — Super PAC — lobbied for the exact defensive measures that presently finance aircraft strike groups in the Persian Gulf.
It wasn't a reaction to events. It was a strategy waiting for the right president and an chance to implement it. And the staff is already there — not just the ideologists, but billionaires with portfolios changing depending on the decision made in government.
Which brings us to the money.
Pentagon as Private Equity portfolio: Stephen Feinberg
The Department of defence now officially bears the secondary name "The Department of War". The name change is meaningful, but the real transformation is structural in the financial sense.
At the center of it stands Stephen Feinberg, co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management — private equity company with assets worth about $70 billion — who serves as Deputy Secretary of Defense. While Pete Hegseth acts as an ideological symbol, saying "warry ethics" to cameras, Feinberg actually directs the Pentagon budget of over $900 billion. According to observers, he manages this with the "terrifyingly intense attention" of a corporate restructuring specialist. And that's precisely what he is.
Feinberg signed an ethics agreement to quit his business with Cerberus. And then, not anymore. He maintained financial ties with the company through administrative agreements on accounting and taxation compatibility — contracts he claimed to be "impossible" to hand over to an external supplier. It's a convenient "impossible" erstwhile your erstwhile company's wallet is the direct beneficiary of the war you're helping to lead.
This is what Cerberus has:
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The National Defence strategy for 2026 assumes investments in "new technologies" and "autonomous systems". Cerberus Ventures — the venture capital department of the company — has just focused its investment strategy on these areas. Feinberg, from his position at the Pentagon, softened contract regulations, creating a "fast path" for smaller companies — many linked to Cerberus — to get single source, non-competitive contracts under "mission requirements".
The attacks in June 2025 on the Iranian atomic plant Fordow were not just military operations. erstwhile It's a live fire demonstration. for hypersonic systems developed by companies supported by private equity funds. Any successful attack is simply a proof of concept. Any proof of concept increases the value of the portfolio. And the individual supervising the order at the Pentagon is Financial Associated with sales companies.
Feinberg besides advocated "smart financing models" in which private equity companies straight finance military infrastructure — for example, military database data centers — creating long-term mechanisms for drawing pension out of the defence budget. The Pentagon doesn't buy guns from private equity. Under Feinberg becomes tenantwho will pay for the next decadesOh, my God!
Inside Secretary of Commerce: Howard Lutnick
If Feinberg's communicative is about slow structural corruption, then Howard Lutnick's communicative is about something faster and more breathtaking: a firm of a cabinet associate who assumes against his own politics — and winning.
Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, was approved as Secretary of Commerce in February 2025. From this position he oversaw the aggressive usage of the global Extraordinary economical Powers Act (IEEP) to impose duties and sanctions — the commercial war "America First" in its most armed form.
Meanwhile, his company — now "led by his son", Brandon Lutnick — was doing something unusual. The papers analysed in July 2025 and the subsequent investigation of the home Judicial Commission chaired by Congressman Jamie Raskin revealed that Cantor Fitzgerald was buying rights to collect possible drawbacks from US importers to 20 to 30 cents a dollar.
Read it again. Lutnick's company bought out claims of companies damaged by Lutnick's own customs — at an tremendous price — assuming that the courts would yet invalidate these duties as illegal.
On February 20, 2026, the ultimate Court did precisely that.
Effect: 300% to 500% profit for the Exchanger Fitzgerald Lutnick from each purchased plot.
The structure of motivation is almost besides corrupt to believe:
And the war on Iran makes things worse, not better. The usage by the IEEP administration to mark "defined imports" and "perceived threats" related to conflict creates a continuous stream new commercial claims in difficulty that Cantor Fitzgerald must take over. all fresh sanction, all fresh announcement of a state of emergency, is simply a fresh group of companies in difficulty, from which a household secretary's company can profit.
Generational bring of treasure secretary: Scott Bessent
Scott Bessent supported by Heritage Foundation Secretary of the Treasury are erstwhile proteges of George Soros, which led the Key Square Group, a macro hedge fund that, by definition, earns on geopolitical volatility. Macroeconomic funds do not bet individual shares. They're betting on chaos itself: currency fluctuations, shocks, effects of sanctions and wars.
Now imagine this investor sitting in Baby USA, with direct control over sanctions policy.
Bessent agreed to distance from 28 assets, including private equity funds and Bitcoin trust funds. He didn't do it on the 90-day deadline. There have been complaints about ethics. The run Legal Center and the Democracy Forward Foundation filed formal complaints claiming that it had assets exclusively to benefit from the volatility it helped create.
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The conflict with Iran is the eventual macro engine. erstwhile the Bessenta Treasury Department imposes sanctions on individuals, entities and entities associated with the IRGC, these sanctions origin immense fluctuations in Iran's Rial, global oil futures and regional players' currencies specified as the UAE and Saudi Arabia. For the macro investor specified a level the timing and severity of the sanctions is not just beneficial. As 1 analyst put it, it's a "generational case."
Bessent controls erstwhile there's interference. His erstwhile fund was built to profit from these distortions. And he never completely broke his umbilical cord.
Drill, child, drill – For War: Secretary of Energy Chris Wright
If the Pentagon is simply a place to make profits from weapons, then the Department of Energy is simply a place where profits from goods gather.
The Energy Secretary supported by Heritage Foundation, Chris Wright, is the founder and erstwhile CEO of Liberty Energy, a company providing hydraulic fracturing services. His financial reports were counting over 1800 pages. They revealed shares of energy-related shares in "tens of millions of dollars", including the law 3 million Liberty Energy shares owned by Wright and his spouse. He agreed to reduce his estates. The regulatory environment it manages personally determines the value of the remaining assets.
The war with Iran is the best thing that could happen to home oil and gas producers, and Wright knows it. The "maximum economical pressure" run of the administration against Iran — imposing sanctions on more than 30 entities, aimed at Iran's shadow float — withdrew millions of barrels of oil from the planet market. erstwhile we combine this artificial regulation of supply with the ubiquitous threat of Iran's closure of the Ormuz Strait (now closed, through which about 20% of global oil flows), the effect is predictable: energy prices are rising. American slate producers — the manufacture in which Wright built his career — rush to fill this gap.
This is Wright's imagination realized. He publically argued that hydrocarbons "still account for about 85% of the world's energy supply" and worked to lift climate reporting requirements. War provides a geopolitical cover to accelerate this agenda: more drilling, more fracking, more production — all of this presented as "energy dominance" and "national security".
Meanwhile, the oil and gas manufacture has passed $25.8 million Trump run groups only in 2024. The returns on these investments from policy now come in the form of implementing regulations conducive to production, the elimination of environmental regulations and the conflict in the mediate East, which has raised the prices of the goods it sells.
Council Profits: erstwhile bombs become business plans
This is where past reaches its most bold chapter.
Peace Council — chaired by Donald Trump in individual — supervise a $17 billion fund of "Rebuilding and improvement of Gaza" and is prepared to manage akin initiatives for most another conflict zones, including Iran following a government change. The members of the Council are not diplomats, relief workers or regional experts. This. Real property magnates and titani private equity From the nearest Trump circle.
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At the center of this camera stands Jared Kushnerof which Abraham Accords Peace Institute (AAPI) has now been merged with The Heritage Foundation (You see the pattern here.?) whose private equity company, Affinity Partners, almost immediately after his departure from the White home in 2021 acquired $2 billion from the Saudi Public Investment Fund. This investment was the subject of a congressional investigation. Critics described this as "legalised bribery" — a prize for Kushner's support for Saudi Arabia's interests during Trump's first term, including his way of investigating Chachoggi's execution and his support for the Yemeni war.
So the financial mechanisms are blocked regardless of the results. From a $2 billion Saudi investment, Kushner personally collects $25 million a year from management fees** — whether the fund always reaches even a cent of profit or not. Affinity Partners has since expanded its role, reportedly taking a position in the Saudi takeover of American corporate assets specified as Electronic Arts (EA Sports), providing "political cover" and "regulatory protection" for Saudi capital flowing to the US.
Let's apply this model to Iran. While American bombs are destroying Iranian infrastructure, Kushner and the Peace Council are already looking for “an amazing investment opportunity” in the “Iran after the collapse of the regime” for state wealth funds in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. The Board of Profits, and indeed. Marc Rowan of Apollo Global Management estimates the possible of developing the real property marketplace at $115 billion. Billionaire and insider Yakir Gabay is already proposing to build 200 luxury hotels and artificial islands – built on the rubble of what just razed the American and Israeli attacks... Your taxes.
There is no way to overestimate the disgustingness of this arrangement. The same political network that pushed the war is now in a position to profit from reconstruction. The president presides over the council – as a private individual – which will distribute contracts. His son-in-law manages the fund. And the “customers” are the Persian Gulf monarchs whose money flows through it all.
Editor's note: planet Liberty Financial (WLF), a venture supported by the Trump family, draws profits by investing dollars that support $1 USD stablecoin Trump in safe assets specified as US Treasury bonds. The Board of Peace plans to order US$1 for all post-war reconstructions, specified as in the Gaza Strip and Iran.
Share in revenue: Trump entities (in peculiar DT Marks DEFI LLC) are entitled to around 75% of the percent generated by planet Liberty Financial shares. According to the latest reports, this could make over $136 million in profit for the Trump family, given the current turnover.
Translation: The Trump household will benefit straight from all dollar invested in rebuilding that will pass through the Council of Peace. More harm = more profit.
Hidden Counterparties: And then there are bribes—
Below the billionaire class, the secondary economy of politically linked contracts flourishes.
Gothams LLC, “Alligator Alcatraz”, mentioned at the beginning of the article, emerged as a leading candidate for the function of “major contractor” in the mediate East region. Their project, obtained at the end of 2025, presented the “Gaza logistics architecture”, which national experts have identified as 1 of the most burdensome contracts they have always seen:
300% of guaranteed return on investment
Seven-year monopoly on all truck transport and logistics
A USD 2000 charge for each humanitarian charge; $12,000 for each commercial vehicle
This model, in which the politically appointed “Council of Peace” serves as a client, guaranteeing triple profits to preferred performers, is intended to be a model for post-conflict operations in Iran.
There's besides UG Solutions, a private military company founded in 2023 by veterans of peculiar forces Jameson Govoni and Glenn Devitta — both staunch Trump supporters. UG Solutions conducts checkpoints in conflict zones, providing administration with what experts describe as "a layer of separation and denial". tiny PMSCs like this, full the function of the corporate shell for unofficial payments and arms transfers, allowing executive authority to completely circumvent Congressional oversight.
These are not aberrations. It's a strategy that works as intended. The old military-industrial complex at least operated through large, listed defence contractors, subject to any control. The fresh model is based on dunes companies, exclusive origin contracts and the Peace Council, which is not subject to anyone but the president — who presides over it as private person, while serving as Chief Commander.
Golden Con: erstwhile Government Becomes a Hedging Fund
Perhaps the most extremist departure from the free marketplace ideology that this administration declares as a advocate, the White home began to take over direct shares in public companies.
January 7, 2026 Trump signed an executive order authorising the "Secretary of War" to identify unattainable defence contractors, ban the buy-out of shares and possibly impose "golden stock" — a forced participation giving the government direct control over the company's production priorities.
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It creates something that can only be described as State investment club. Donors in the securities and investment sector have donated in 2024 to Trump groups of $193.8 million. Now they can invest in companies "directly linked to US industrial policy" — companies whose valuations are supported by the national government itself. For billionaires from hedge funds specified as Paul Singer, Nelson Peltz and Diane Hendricks, the war with Iran is simply a justification for the state to "block" home production, ensuring that their investments in fossil fuels, production and mining are protected by the full strength of the American military force.
The government is no longer just a client of these industries. It is. co-investor, regulator and returns guarantor - All at once. And Donald Trump collects bribes as "campan donations".
Integrated Conflict Management
Let's take a look at it all.
This is not a war against corruption on the outskirts. This. financial architecture hidden under the cover of abroad policy. Each level of conflict — from decision to attack, through the usage of weapons, imposed sanctions, disruptions in energy markets, to subsequent reconstruction — was designed to bring benefits to a specific, recognizable group of people: "Gang Mar-A-Lago"
At cabinet level: Feinberg directs Pentagon contracts towards his own investment orbit. Wright gains from the energy prices raised by the conflict that caused his administration. Lutnick's company bet against his own duties and wins. Bessent has small assets, while controlling sanctions that decision markets.
At the advisory level: Kushner and the Council of Peace are already selling postwar Iran to Gulf monarchs — earning $25 million a year for management fees before even 1 building is built out of the rubble.
At contractor level: Forced companies politically linked pull 300% of guaranteed returns from humanitarian logistics, while private military companies operate checkpoints without legislature supervision.
At donor level: The "found" class of billionaire-investors invests money in companies that the government effectively guaranteed — companies whose stock prices are supported by executive regulations and war.
This is what the Mercenary State looks like. War is not a political failure or a last resort. This. business model — an undertaking with the highest margin in the portfolio of country managers.
Bombs fall on Tehran. The profits go to Mar-a-Lago.
And people who pay the price — American soldiers, Iranian civilians, taxpayers who fund defence budgets worth $900 billion — pay for all of this.
Sources
https://thedemocracydefender.substack.com/p/iran-war-we-follow-the-money-to-mar
