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This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to Prison in Africa
Reposted by Mike Masnick
https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social
Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:
Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
· 14h
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
https://zeteo.com/p/this-family-made-billions-on-trump
This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison
Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.
zeteo.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
@gregsargent.bsky.social
This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:
Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
· 14h
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
https://zeteo.com/p/this-family-made-billions-on-trump
This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison
Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.
zeteo.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T01:54:12.110Z
Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
https://zeteo.com/p/this-family-made-billions-on-trump
This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison
Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.
zeteo.com
Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
· 14h
Standby for ICE flight news…
October 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@gbrockell.bsky.social
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
https://zeteo.com/p/this-family-made-billions-on-trump
This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison
Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.
zeteo.com
Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
· 14h
Standby for ICE flight news…
October 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
The jet was operated by Journey Aviation, who also participated in the South Sudan, first Eswatini and second Rwanda third-country removals.
Rich people lease their private jets part-time to companies like Journey in order to get a huge tax break from Trump’s first term.
A screenshot of the Dezers’ jet, N352BH, on the Journey Aviation website.
ALT
October 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
@gbrockell.bsky.social
The jet was operated by Journey Aviation, who also participated in the South Sudan, first Eswatini and second Rwanda third-country removals.
Rich people lease their private jets part-time to companies like Journey in order to get a huge tax break from Trump’s first term.
A screenshot of the Dezers’ jet, N352BH, on the Journey Aviation website.
ALT
October 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell.bsky.social
It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.
And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.
The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.
ALT
October 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
@gbrockell.bsky.social
It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.
And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.
The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.
ALT
October 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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