Fox News media reporter Brian Flood reported that ABC News quickly deleted an investigative article about the president's sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. On Wednesday, it came with the headline, "Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election."
Profiting off government contracts! They alleged Anduril, the company investing in a new Baltimore shipyard, had ties to the Trump sons.
Flood elaborated on the deleted claims:
"1789 Capital — a venture capital firm that lists Donald Trump Jr. as one of six partners along with three founders — claimed a major stake in Anduril in June 2025 from a $2.5 billion investment into the company," ABC News reported in the deleted story.
"Since that investment, Anduril has been awarded 135 other contracts with the U.S. government and to date has received around $1.8 billion from those agreements, according to active defense contracts posted to SAM.gov, the official system for government contracting.
"The company is one of the largest manufacturers to receive an investment from Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump, but they are not the only one."
Alexa Henning, a spokesperson for 1789 Capital (and a former spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence), took to X to asserting the company does not have a "major stake" in Anduril.
Here's a small lesson, that I also explained to ABC, the "reporter" who is a complete idiot conflated raising funds with investment by 1789. Those are two separate actions.
Meaning the "investments" mentioned were actually the total number raised for a funding round, that MANY companies contribute to.
Another thing that the reporter buried the lead on was that many of these companies have gotten government contracts during Biden AND Trump, which completely negates the assertion by ABC that Don Jr and Eric Trump are doing anything wrong.
Total biased hit piece that is not being regurgitated by dumb trolls on the internet.
CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski tweeted on Friday that "ABC News completely retracted this story like two days ago just totally nuked it. No note, no explanation , no comment. It had been shared by tons of top lawmakers and Democratic officials." He cited Status.com, which called it "ABC's 404 Fiasco," since the original URL returns a 404 error, with no correction or editor’s note.
CNN's Brian Stelter noted in his "Reliable Sources" newsletter: "One of the companies named in the piece was told it was 'published prematurely,' I hear…" That's embarrassing, but it's better to delete it quickly before all the "top lawmakers and Democratic officials" spread fake news.
