Olivia of Troye - Governance by Auction
I read this reporting twice. And then I sat with it.
Because once you strip away the crypto jargon, the shell companies, and the carefully lawyered denials, whats left is something deeply unsettlingand profoundly dangerous for American governance.
Four days before Donald Trump was sworn back into office, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase 49% of a Trump-linked company for $500 million. Not a hotel. Not a licensing deal. A major ownership stake in a company tied directly to the sitting presidents family.
The buyer wasnt just a foreign investor. It was Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyanthe United Arab Emirates national security adviser, brother of the countrys president, and overseer of a vast intelligence, surveillance, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) empire that U.S. officials had already flagged as a national security risk.
https://www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/governance-by-auction
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