Report: A company backed by Trump's sons seeks to sell interceptor drones to Gulf states
Afrasianet - PBS News reports that a drone manufacturer backed by US President Donald Trump's sons is selling its products to Gulf countries that are under attack from Iran.
PBS News reported that a company backed by the sons of US President Donald Trump is seeking to sell interceptor drones to Gulf states that are under Iranian attacks.
In details, "a drone manufacturer backed by Trump's two eldest sons is selling its products to the Gulf states at a time when these countries are under attack from Iran, while relying on the U.S. military led by their father," according to the website.
He added that Powerus's sales campaign, which last month announced a deal to include Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., "puts the company in a position to potentially capitalize on the war their father started."
Brett Velikovich, co-founder of Powerus, told The Associated Press that the company "offers promotions that include demonstrations of drones in several Gulf countries, to show how its defense drones can help it repel Iranian attacks."
While the company denied "any conflict of interest when the Trump brothers first announced their stake," Velikovich reiterated the company's "determination to help the United States catch up with and outdo Chinese and Russian drone manufacturers," according to PBS News.
According to the website, the Trump brothers' deal with PowerRuss "may give significant shares in its capital."
The Gulf under U.S. pressure
Richard Painter, a former senior ethics adviser in the White House under President George W. Bush, said, "These countries are under enormous pressure to buy products from the president's sons so that he can do what they want."
"This is the first president family to make a lot of money from the war, which has not received congressional approval," Painter said.
Their father, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, launched an aggression with Israel against Iran more than a month ago, which sparked the war, and is the impetus for the Gulf states' need for protection now.
Gulf states suffer from severe shortage of interceptor missiles
Following the escalation of the effects of the war, the US agency "Bloomberg" reported that the Gulf states are suffering from a severe shortage of interceptor missiles, revealing that they consumed about 2,400 missiles from last February 28 last year, last year last year, a number that is dangerously close to the total stockpiles of these countries known to these countries before the outbreak of the war on Iran.
According to the IAEA report, Iran has launched more than 1,200 ballistic missiles and 4,000 Shahed drones towards the Gulf states since the beginning of the war.
The vast majority of the interceptor missiles consumed were Patriot PAC-3 and GEM-T, Bloomberg said, noting that before the war, the Gulf states had fewer than 2,800 of these types of missiles, according to U.S. foreign military sales licenses and estimates by experts familiar with the matter.
