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    61 day ago

    So all that’s actually happened is a $20 billion contract was officially disbursed - as in, transferred to a private installation. So the contract is closed.

    Just to be clear, I don’t believe there’s enough gold bullion in existence to represent 20 billion; besides, is gold did go missing from fort Knox, we all know trump stole it.

    Final note: there’s no way in hell 20 billion isn’t just a made up amount. Maybe 20 million? But they been caught just straight up lying about total monetary amounts.

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      51 day ago

      Well, there’s certainly enough gold bars to cover that amount, gold is stupid expensive. You’re right about the rest though.

      There’s about $290 billion in bullion in fort Knox, which is something like 4.5 metric tons.

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      123 hours ago

      I think the 20 billion is the full amount that was appropriated in the IRA, to be disbursed to various NGOs. Part of which went to the specific organisation lead by Abrams. At least that’s what I got by paying attention to the specific weasel words used in the ‘article’, chances are they’re outright fabricating stuff and even that’s a lie, of course.

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        123 hours ago

        You clearly have more patience than I to read it that closely, lol. Still, a billion dollars is an inconvenience amount; it’s not impossible that 20 billion was the total…but that number raises suspicion.