
Trump Has $5 Million Personally Invested In Blue Owl. ICE Just Bought A $60 Million Blue Owl Warehouse For $120 Million. He's One Of 33 Administration Officials In The Fund
Trump's circle had warehouses that nobody would buy. Then America invented a deportation crisis that needed warehouses.
What Nobody Tells You
A warehouse in Socorro, Texas, valued at $11 million, sold to ICE for $123 million. That's a 1,000% profit on a building nobody else wanted. The seller: El Paso Logistics II LLC.
In Tremont, Pennsylvania, ICE paid $120 million for a $60 million property owned by Blue Owl, the same investment firm where 33 Trump officials hold personal stakes, including Trump himself with $5 million. The Salt Lake City warehouse: $145 million paid, $97 million value. Owner: Deutsche Bank, Trump's personal lender of $2.5 billion across two decades.
Project Salt Box's Michael Wriston, who tracked the markups, says the plan didn't come from ICE: "The plan came from folks very close to the White House who were sitting on properties that were causing them losses every year."
Why It Actually Matters
This isn't a deportation policy. It's a $38 billion taxpayer bailout of Trump's distressed real estate network, with cages as the cover story. Goldman Sachs cleared $75 million on a New Jersey warehouse. Deutsche Bank cleared $48 million in Utah. Your federal tax dollars converted dead assets into liquid profit for the people who own Trump's loans.
The detainees are the alibi. Most have no criminal record. The buildings are the point.
What To Do About It
Name every seller. Name every markup. Track the $5 million Trump invested in Blue Owl. Public records survive elections. Bookmark Project Salt Box.
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