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Giving a job to an unqualified pal campaign donor to "teach" an organization that wrote the book on martial arts, is indeed corruption. Your opinion is laughable, I've an exciting investment opportunity for you, seeing as you are so gulible.
You're saying the FBI wrote THE book on martial arts?...... Anything to say about the fact I brought up this has happened dozens of times in the past with different pro fighters or athletes under different presidents? This isn't a new thing and its far from the first time the US government has contracted pro athletes to train its military and/or police force. Again this has happened WITH THE UFC prior under Obama, Bush, Biden and Trump.... it's just being extra publicized right now because its easy to farm engament/hate. You're the gullible one for falling for the idea this is a new thing that Trump is doing and getting stirred up by it. You can google it, you have the power. Was it fraudulent corruption under the other presidents too? I hate Trump and hes doing plenty of corrupt, immoral and evil things. This isn't one of them. Making a big deal about it just weakens the argument you have about his actual misdeeds if you were to try and argue with a conservative. I'll say again because you've ignored it every other time, this EXACT thing has happened under the last four presidents you care now strictly because that dumb fucks name is associated....The US special forces used the Gracies (famous from the UFC) to assist in further development of their hand to hand combat program. You can look in the career section or google the modern army combatives program. Bas Rutten, Tim Kennedy, Matt Sera, Randy Couture and the Gracies have all made careers off running training courses or seminars for the US military or police since the early 2000s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorion_Gracie
https://www.army.mil/article/52539/space_warriors_attend_royce_gracie_combatives_clinic
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1119092/ufc-fighter-tim-kennedy-supports-army-combatives-with-free-seminar
https://www.army.mil/article/149784/ufc_outlaw_grapples_with_kmc_personnel_in_ramstein_combatives_session
https://www.army.mil/article/1388/special_forces_soldiers_receive_combat_training_from_renowned_ufc_fighter
https://www.army.mil/article/20627/wiesbaden_hosts_army_combatives_contest_ufc_fighters
https://www.army.mil/article/51966/ufc_fighters_see_different_side_of_combat_with_178th_mps
The armed forces and security services yes, they know more about fighting that ufc douchebags.
Aside from that blatently misinformed, ignorant and objectively false statement. Anything to say about all the times its been done on the past ? Or about how nearly all branches of the military and police hand to hand training is literally created by those "UFC douche bags" (Gracie combatives, GST, MACP and GRAPLE).