Trump sons-backed company seeks to sell interceptor drones to Gulf states

A drone manufacturing company backed by President Donald Trump’s two eldest sons is trying to sell drones to Gulf countries amid Iranian attacks, while these nations continue to rely on the US military led by their father.

Florida-based company Powerus, which announced last month that Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. had joined its team, is using its sales campaign to potentially benefit from a conflict started by their father.

Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said: “These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want. This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war — a war he didn’t get the consent of Congress for.”

Brett Velicovich, co-founder of Powerus, told Associated Press that the company is making sales pitches that include drone demonstrations in several Gulf countries to show how its defensive drone interceptors could help them ward off Iranian attacks.