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Guardian investigation shows how US presidency blurs line between policy and enrichment of American ruling family and those around it
On a graffitied Sarajevo backstreet, a path leads past an overgrown patch of garden to a white door. Beyond is the registered office of a company that is on the brink of winning contracts worth more than $1bn.
AAFS Infrastructure and Energy is close to securing a concession to build and operate a pipeline across the Balkans to allow fossil gas shipped from the US to replace supplies that come from Russia. βThis could be the most important infrastructure project ever in Bosnia and Herzegovina,β says one of the countryβs top officials, who, like others, asks to remain anonymous to discuss sensitive negotiations.
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President Donald Trumpβs latest pitch for using taxpayer dollars to secure his White House ballroom featured a militarized buildingβincluding a rooftop hardened against drone strikes and a βdrone portβ that could potentially house military drones.
The remarks came on May 19 as Trump gave reporters a personal tour of the ballroom project that has already involved the demolition of the White House mansionβs East Wing. The president spoke of installing a rooftop drone base βfor unlimited numbers of dronesβ operated by the US military as a βdrone port that would protect all of Washington,β according to Reuters. He also highlighted a ballroom roof made from βimpenetrable steelβ that would supposedly be βdrone-proofβ against potential drone strikes.
To pay for such measures, Trump has been urging Republican lawmakers in the US Congress to approve $1 billion in taxpayer funding to provide a wide variety of βsecurity adjustments and upgradesβ for his ballroom project. The taxpayer-backed security enhancements would be separate from the $400 million construction cost for the ballroom project that has been funded by private donors, including companies such as Amazon, Apple, Coinbase, Comcast, Google, HP Inc., Lockheed Martin, Meta, Micron Technology, Microsoft, Palantir, Ripple, and T-Mobile.


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