This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to Prison in Africa

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Greg Sargent
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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

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:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T21:17:45.198Z

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

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.

— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T22:09:26.949Z

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

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.

— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T21:25:28.032Z