Michael Dell gave $6.25 billion to Donald Trump’s signature children’s accounts, and now the Pentagon has handed Dell a $9.7 billion contract.
Trump personally told the country to go out and buy Dell, so the contract looks less like a competition than an order being filled. It is not the only one. ProPublica reported today that the White House steered a $620 million Pentagon loan to a startup partly owned by the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
The Pentagon insists both deals were won on the merits and that no company gets special treatment. But one of its own officials says the White House made the call, and a second loan for one of Don Jr.’s companies is already in the queue. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell your representatives to investigate both.
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