{"id":70758,"date":"2026-04-02T21:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/firm-backed-by-trump-sons-tries-to-sell-drone-interceptors-to-gulf-states-being-attacked-by-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:54:46","slug":"firm-backed-by-trump-sons-tries-to-sell-drone-interceptors-to-gulf-states-being-attacked-by-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/firm-backed-by-trump-sons-tries-to-sell-drone-interceptors-to-gulf-states-being-attacked-by-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm backed by Trump sons tries to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drone-maker backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr tries to win contracts with Gulf countries protected by US<\/p>\n<p>A drone-maker backed by Donald Trump\u2019s two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the US military led by their father.<\/p>\n<p>The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus \u2013 which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr \u2013 positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father began.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/eric-trump-drones-gulf-states-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drone-maker backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr tries to win contracts with Gulf countries protected by US A drone-maker backed by Donald Trump\u2019s two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the US military led by their father. The sales drive &#8230; <a title=\"Firm backed by Trump sons tries to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/firm-backed-by-trump-sons-tries-to-sell-drone-interceptors-to-gulf-states-being-attacked-by-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Firm backed by Trump sons tries to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}