Billionaire Trump donor demands tax payer funded fire fighters save his mega mansion inside Sawtooth National Park: Mapping the corruption

All Americans are equal, but Epstein Class billionaires are more equal. - George Orwell

Epstein class billionaires build private air strips and mega mansions inside National Parks. Dodge taxes. But feel free to demand fire fighters paid for with your taxes protect their estates first. What gives?

Top Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch. Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and EnvironmentMichael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked agency staff last month to escalate the amount of aircraft at a seven-acre fire that had started near his mega-ranch in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest. - Washington Post

Michael Boren, founder of a billion-dollar tech company, Idaho ranch owner and Trump donor built an airstrip on protected land. Now he leads the Forest Service. -  HeadTopics 

“There’s a finite number of resources. So if you are going to put more resources on one incident, they have to be shifted from somewhere else,” Steve Ellis, who served as deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management -  Daily Beast

It’s also a fight against the creeping wealth that has overtaken many parts of the Mountain West as urbanites started working remotely from luxury rural outposts. Local resident Stewart Wilder says Boren’s ranch is a case study in whether the rich will get to bend or disregard rules -  Daily Beast

Mapping Michael Boren's corruption

More logging on public lands 

Trump's secretary of agriculture, Brooke Rollins, issued an order removing environmental protections from almost 60% of national forests, or more than 112 million acres, mostly in the West. That came after Trump issued an executive order to increase logging on those lands by 25%. -  Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Boren made his fortune in technology and investing, and he has little experience in public lands management. In 2001, he partnered with his brother Dave Boren and another banking associate to found Clearwater Analytics, an investment and accounting software company based in Boise, Idaho. He has also become a reliable Republican campaign donor, giving to the Republican National Committee as well as to Trump. In 2021, Clearwater debuted on the New York Stock Exchange with a valuation of $5.5 billion. - Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Take Away: Hold Republicans accountable for giving away your National Parks to their Epstein Class billionaire donors.

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