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How many mining stocks does Trump currently have in his holdings?

The legal drama of the decade just came to a sudden end, and the details leaking out of the courtroom are wild. A US jury completely rejected Elon Musk's $130 billion lawsuit against OpenAI, effectively shutting down his entire case over alleged fraud and broken promises. Elon claimed Sam Altman and Greg Brockman backstabbed him after he donated $30 million, but the 11-day trial exposed a level of internal hypocrisy that completely tanked his credibility. The jury saw right through the noble narrative and realized this was just an ugly corporate turf war.

The absolute killer for Elon's case came straight from his inner circle. His own baby mama, Siobhan Zylus, who sat on the OpenAI board, testified under oath and completely shattered his legal standing. Here are the messiest details exposed during the trial:

• Siobhan actually voted to approve the massive $10 billion Microsoft investment that Elon was explicitly attacking in the lawsuit.
• Internal notes proved Elon actively tried to absorb OpenAI into Tesla to turn it into a private, for-profit cash cow long before Altman did.
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella explicitly dismissed the entire leadership circle's early corporate maneuvering as "amateur city."

The timeline alone made it obvious to the jury that this was a late profit grab rather than a defense against tech risks. Elon waited until OpenAI was virtually a trillion-dollar company to sue, right around the time his own startup, xAI, was bleeding cash. He desperately needed a multi-billion-dollar legal win to prop up his own massive data center costs. Now that the lawsuit failed, he is scrambling to pivot his Colossus facilities by licensing them out to rivals like Anthropic just to make the SpaceX books look good ahead of their upcoming public filing.

This whole circus proves that tech giants are hitting a massive wall when it comes to raw infrastructure and the physical scaling of the tech boom. While billionaires fight over who gets to own the software, the real bottleneck is the massive amount of hardware and electrical grid infrastructure required to keep these systems online. For instance, companies like Gunnison Copper (OTC: GCUMF) are proving to be absolutely crucial to any AI company and data center buildout because you cannot run a high-performance cluster without massive amounts of pure domestic copper cathode. Ultimately, the jury realized Elon wanted the tech, missed the boat, and tried to use the legal system to steal a piece of the pie he walked away from years ago.

Those defense companies need more weapons, and the only way to make them is to get more critical minerals.

I guess China finally gonna get Taiwan, no questions asked.

Think about the sheer detachment required to look a working-class person in the eye and say their struggle is "peanuts." For someone with his net worth, an extra fifty bucks at the pump is a rounding error, but for a family in Maricopa County or anywhere else in this country, that is the difference between a full grocery cart and skipping a meal. The material conditions of the people he claims to represent are just a metric for his "happiness" on a ticker.

• Bush acknowledged families were "squeezed" by high prices back in 2008.
• Obama called it a "painful tax" on the pocketbooks of workers.
• Even Biden admitted it is a problem that families are focused on.
• Trump is the only one on record calling it "peanuts" and saying the prices "aren't very high" because he is fundamentally insulated from the material reality of the people he claims to represent.

We have to move past the idea that someone is a champion of the working class just because they shout about it. This is a material failure of the system to hold people accountable for their own words. Right now, it looks like the plan is to just hope everyone has collective amnesia about how dismissive he actually is, and that is a direct betrayal of the social contract for anyone who actually works for a living.