Trump wants Fort Knox audited after former CIA official arrested with $40 million in gold bars.
June 17 (King World News) – Gerald Celente: President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social last month that there needs to be a physical audit of Fort Knox after a news report said a former CIA official was arrested with $40 million in gold bars inside his home.
Trump made the post on 31 May and linked out to a New York Post report that David Rush, 49, the former CIA official allegedly got the agency to send him gold bars while he worked on the Pentagon’s “most highly classified nuclear sub programs.”
This is not the first time that Trump mentioned an audit at the facility.
Trump told reporters in February 2025 that his administration will investigate the “fabled” Fort Knox in Kentucky to make sure the roughly 147.3 million troy ounces of gold is inside the facility. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he wants to make sure the gold is there and if it isn’t, “we’re going to be very upset.”
“We hope everything is fine with Fort Knox,” he said at the time. “We’re going to go to the fabled Fort Knox and make sure the gold is there. If the gold isn’t there, we’re going to be very upset.”
CNBC noted that Scott Bessent told a local station that all “all the gold is present and accounted for.”
TRENDPOST:
It is worth reminding subscribers that Gerald Celente, the publisher of The Trends Journal, said in an interview with ITM Trading that the gold in Fort Knox should not be off limits to the public, and only sporadically verified by the Washington, D.C. crime syndicate.
Celente said at the time that the main reason that Trump may be interested in the gold in Fort Knox is to greatly increase its value to bring down the country’s debt.
Celente noted that in 1933, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, which required Americans to turn over the bullion on or before 1 May 1933 for $20.67 an ounce. The Gold Reserve Act, passed a year later, increased the price of the bullion to $35 – about a 70 percent increase.
“That’s how they screwed the public,” he said. “You got it? And then they raised the price.”
He said he believes Trump wants to raise the price of gold to bring down the deficit, and if they repeat the 70 percent increase, gold could rise to $5,000 an ounce.
It should also be noted that when Elon Musk was the big DOGE guy after Trump got elected for the second time, in February 2025 Musk said that they were preparing to audit U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox. A year-and-a-half later no word as to whether they did the audit.
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