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2026 Events (2)
Pentagon awards $24M humanoid-robot contract to Foundation Future Industries, where Eric Trump is chief strategy adviser
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded approximately $24 million in research contracts (across the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force) to Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco robotics startup whose chief strategy adviser is Eric Trump, son of sitting President Donald Trump. On April 23, 2026, Eric Trump appeared on Fox Business's "Mornings with Maria" alongside Foundation CEO Sankaet Pathak to publicly tout the deal, and Democracy Now! reported on his promotion of it the following day. The contracts fund testing of the company's "Phantom" humanoid robots for military applications, with two Phantom MK-1 units sent to Ukraine in February 2026 for logistics and reconnaissance testing.
President Trump and his sons sued the IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over a tax-return leak
On January 29, 2026, President Donald Trump, his two adult sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization filed suit in federal court in Florida against the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department, seeking at least $10 billion in damages over the 2019 leak of Trump's tax returns. The complaint attributes legal responsibility to the IRS for the conduct of Charles Littlejohn, a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor with staff-like access to taxpayer records who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024 for disclosing thousands of returns, including Trump's, to news organizations. Trump filed in his personal capacity; as the sitting president he also heads the executive branch whose Department of Justice is responsible for defending the federal agencies named as defendants.
2025 Events (1)
Eric Trump signed $500 million deal giving UAE-linked investors a 49% stake in Trump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial
Eric Trump signed a $500 million deal on January 16, 2025 -- four days before his father's second inauguration -- giving an investment firm linked to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's national security adviser and manager of its largest sovereign wealth fund, a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's cryptocurrency venture. The Wall Street Journal first reported the previously undisclosed deal on February 1, 2026; of the payment, $187 million went to Trump family entities and at least $31 million to entities tied to Steve Witkoff, Trump's Middle East envoy and a WLFI co-founder. Two senior officers at Tahnoon-backed companies joined WLFI's board as part of the agreement.