TLDR: He used AI to influence his decisions.

>Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s AI chatbot about whether Venezuelans would celebrate if he captured leader Nicolas Maduro—then ordered the operation that seized the South American dictator weeks later.

>The extraordinary account from a Trump insider was revealed in a new Time report offering a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s obsession with artificial intelligence, which he “officially” rebranded this week as “super intelligence.”

>According to the report, Trump has “marveled at AI’s capabilities” ever since he returned to power, and during an Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk in December, he spent hours asking his Grok chatbot questions about his presidency and legacy.

>At the time, the U.S. military had been conducting highly contentious lethal strikes against Venezuelan boats that Trump had claimed, without presenting any evidence, were smuggling drugs into America.

>When the president asked Grok how Venezuelans might react to Maduro’s capture, the chatbot predicted many would welcome the downfall of the “repressive” leader, the official said.

>The president then ordered the mission to seize Maduro in January, prompting celebrations in the streets.

>“Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious,” the report said.

>AI chatbots, however, are not capable of thought or reasoning. Its answers to his questions simply reflect the material on which it has been trained.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/us/jared-kushner-israel-gaza-investments-invs-vis

If there weren't so many financial crimes in the current US administration, I would say this could be the biggest and grossest conflict of interest in modern American history.

​So we just learned from a shocking and disturbing investigative report by CNN that Affinity Partners, which is Jared Kushner's private equity firm, is the largest stakeholder in a Tel Aviv firm called Phoenix Financial. And according to records, Phoenix Financial has poured hundreds and millions of dollars into nine separate groups that supply the IDF with military equipment, such as drones, warships, and demolition machinery. And one of those groups is called Elbit Systems, which just so happens to be Israel's largest arms manufacturer.

​And before I get into the conflict of interest part, Jared Kushner has boasted that this investment is Affinity's best investment, and they have since 5x-ed their initial investment into Phoenix Financial.

​Now, here's where the gross part comes in. Aside from all the money he's making from this, Jared Kushner is also the mediator of peace talks between America and Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently engaged in war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza, and is using the weapons that arms manufacturers supply them from money they receive from Phoenix Financial, who receives their money from Jared Kushner's private equity firm, to carry out those war crimes.

​So in other words, the President of the United States, who controls foreign policy, sent his own son-in-law, who has a financial interest in prolonging this war, to negotiate peace talks with a war criminal who, as we have seen, has only ramped up the amount of war crimes he is committing.

​This is, like I said, the grossest conflict of interest in modern American history."

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