ABC: Trump Sons' Investments Won 'Billions' in Pentagon Contracts
ABC reported that 1789 Capital, the firm linked to Donald Trump Jr., had taken a major stake in Anduril through a $2.5 billion investment. It also said companies backed by Trump's sons had won billions in Pentagon contracts since the election.
The inflated figures suggested Trump's sons were profiting heavily from defense contracts.
What was reported
ABC reported that 1789 Capital, the firm linked to Donald Trump Jr., had taken a major stake in Anduril through a $2.5 billion investment. It also said companies backed by Trump's sons had won billions in Pentagon contracts since the election.
What actually happened
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and 1789 Capital said the firm had invested about $50 million. The $2.5 billion was the total Anduril raised. ABC took the story down within a day without explanation. Two days later it reposted a rewritten version under a new headline and a staff byline, with a correction saying the original had errors in describing investments, government contracts and the order of events.
The proof
ABC's own correction on the revised story and the firm's disclosed investment figure.
The receipt. Copy this and paste it anywhere:
ABC: Trump Sons' Investments Won 'Billions' in Pentagon Contracts — Retracted. ABC's own correction on the revised story and the firm's disclosed investment figure. Full file: https://www.thepropagandafiles.com/case/abc-trump-sons-anduril-pentagon-contracts/
Original reporting
- ABC News: Revised story with correction note (Oct. 9, 2026)https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/new-shipyard-announced-amid-earlier-democratic-concerns-potential-137143004
Corrections, findings & records
- Adweek TVNewser: Editor's note now attached to ABC News story on Trump's sonshttps://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/editors-note-now-attached-to-abc-news-story-involving-trumps-sons/
- Semafor: ABC News offers contradictory explanation for vanishing Anduril storyhttps://semafor.com/article/10/11/2026/abc-news-offers-contradictory-explanation-for-vanishing-anduril-story
- Daily Wire: ABC deleted story on Trump family after pushbackhttps://www.dailywire.com/news/with-no-explanation-abc-news-deleted-story-on-trump-family-after-pushback
Archived copies
Stories get edited after publication. These open the Internet Archive's earliest saved copy of each original.
- Archived copy: ABC News: Revised story with correction note (Oct. 9, 2026)https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/new-shipyard-announced-amid-earlier-democratic-concerns-potential-137143004