Donald Trump Jr invests in sporting event that will allow steroids

The Enhanced Games, the archetypal diversion lawsuit successful which performance-enhancing drugs volition beryllium 100% allowed, has backing from a salient subordinate of the Trump family.

The marque announced connected Thursday that Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital has co-led a multimillion-dollar Series B circular for the Enhanced Games.

Dr. Aron D'Souza founded the lawsuit successful 2023, and the contiguous backlash has been strong. He has been told his thought is unsafe, unfair and a mockery of the existent Olympics.

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However, Trump present joins billionaire Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, among the high-net-worth individuals to put successful the games.

"For implicit 100 years, elites successful complaint of planetary sports person stifled innovation, crushed idiosyncratic greatness, and refused to fto athletes propulsion the limits of what’s possible. That ends now," Trump Jr. said successful a statement. "The Enhanced Games correspond the aboriginal – existent competition, existent freedom, and existent records being smashed. This is astir excellence, innovation, and American dominance connected the satellite signifier – thing the MAGA question is each about. The Enhanced Games are going to beryllium huge, and I couldn’t beryllium prouder to enactment this question that is changing sports forever."

Added D'Souza, "With these powerhouse investors, we’re gathering thing revolutionary – sports without hypocrisy, wherever the champion tin really beryllium the best. Our investors spot the future, and they’re backing it with conviction."

Despite the criticism, D'Souza believes his lawsuit whitethorn beryllium 1 of the safest successful caller memory, arsenic plentifulness of aesculapian professionals volition beryllium connected hand, and athletes volition spell done rigorous investigating earlier they tin compete.

"Ultimately, we person 1 changeable to bash this right, and if that has immoderate wellness complications whatsoever, it would not lone derail the institution and question we’re creating, but besides the societal alteration that we’re attempting to make here," D'Souza said successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital past year. 

"Ultimately, what we are doing is heavy destigmatizing show enhancements and I deliberation unlocking the tract of show medicine, which leads to longevity and anti-aging technologies, and the elephantine publicity tempest that we’ve gone through, there’s truthful overmuch attention, we cognize the world’s eyes are connected america – we cognize we person to bash this right. We cognize the expectations are very, precise high, and there’s a large prize good beyond the future of the Olympics if we bash it right, truthful we person to bash it right."

It remains to beryllium seen erstwhile the events volition instrumentality place.

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