It is a golden ticket that many have sought, but few precious people provided.
Even eminent legislators complain of having prohibited from taking a look at the country’s gold standard at Fort Knox. For decades, the only person to take a look in addition to specially authorized staff was the FDR.
Now President Donald Trump and his chief Doge Elon Musk each asked if gold was really there.
A highlighting of the world’s high power in the world and the most powerful in the world could be in sight.
Trump, who said the windmills could cause cancer and raised doubts about Kennedy’s assassination, said gold.
“We are actually going to Fort Knox to see if gold is there, because maybe someone stole gold. Tons of gold, ” said Trump.
“I guess gold is there, but it is certainly reasonable for people to check,” Senator Ted Cruz told Dailymail.com. “It would be interesting.
“Maybe Goldfinger does it?” joked Senator Lindsey Graham, pointing to the classic James Bond film involving a plan to radiate the offer.
A person who was able to take stock of the hiding place described the visit of nothing less than incredible – and described in detail what it looks like inside the safe.
President Trump and Elon Musk each spoke of visiting the gold deposit in Fort Knox
“We have to look at, I suppose,” said senator Jim Justice (RW.VA.), although he said he could put the problem “lower on the totem” when he asked him questions by Dailymail.com. Senator Mike Lee (Rutah) has tried “repeatedly” to enter, only so as not to be informed by the Mint of the United States.
The benchmark holds 147.3 million, according to the currency.
An exercise legislator, Kentucky Mitch McConnell Senator McConnell reached Gold Supply in 2017, while it was estimated at $ 186 billion. It was the first trip inside the Lingots deposit since 1974.
“He just came following an occasional conversation,” he said at the time, having joined a delegation with the secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin.
“It is not even the level of annual financing of some of our major departments of the federal government,” said McConnell, exaggerating in numerous folds.
Mnuchin, a Hollywood producer who put money before us with his wife Louise Linton, then said: “I guess gold is still there. It would really be a whole film if we entered and there was no gold.
Musk himself posted consciously of what could be there.
“A live visit to Fort Knox would be great … Gold is there or not?” They say it’s – Is it real? Or has anyone sprayed lead? He said on the Podcast Joe Rogan Experience.
“Well, I guess they could discover quite easily,” said senator Mike Rounds (Rs.d.).
In the middle of the mystery, concocted or otherwise, a person who had an overview of the gold supply was not so laconic.
Dave Ganz was part of a contingent of 120 journalists and photographers who took a look at the famous vaults in 1974.
The secretary of the Treasury authorized the visit “when rumors persist according to which all the gold had been removed from the chests”, according to the mint.
Heaving: Senator Mitch McConnell visited Ft. Knox in 2017
There have been persistent rumors on gold under Fort Knox, some now fed by Donald Trump and Elon Musk
Signed and sealed: McConnell signed his name during the visit
In the dark: the trip took McConnell and Mnuchin on the path of the totality for the solar eclipse on the day of their visit
Mnuchin also examined the American currency with his wife Louise Linton
Ms. Mary Brooks, director of Mint, points to her hand to the ceiling to show the golden bars stored in the deposit of USA Lingots in Fort Knox. Congress members visited the installation with Ms. Brooks in 1974
“We are actually going to Fort Knox to see if gold is there, because maybe someone stole gold. Tons of gold, ” said Trump
“Even for the jades, the experience was simply incredible,” he wrote in a 2009 article on the experience.
Person of the public or even a government person outside the authorized personnel has not been there since the FDR made a visit to war in 1943.
Ganz described the laborious process of building the installation from ‘16,000 cubic granite feet, 4,200 cubic vings of concrete, 750 tonnes of reinforcing steel and 670 tonnes of structural steel.
He came in the middle of a persistent rumor according to which there was no more gold at FT. Knox led to the first opening of the deposit to the public in 1974. ”
The visit itself had to cost a nice penny.
There were planes in the air “all the time”.
A bus carrying a group of journalists drawn on “Bullion boulevard”.
Former representative Phil Crane (R-ill.) Said that he had suggested the tour “due to endemic rumors that important portions of our gold reserves had disappeared”.
To protect against such suspicions, the vault doors have been affixed with waterproofing wax, the special band and signed cards intended to reveal if there was an alteration.
A legislator, clear W. Burgener (R-Calif.) Told the journalist: “Personally, I am convinced that only a conspiracy or military invasion could withdraw gold from here.”
The Vault Ganz on tour was the size of a “comfortable four -bedroom apartment”.
A legislator questioned a guard on a rumor of an “exhaust tunnel” inside the repository.
There was a lower level tunnel, was informed of the legislator-but it was only after some back and forth were legislators and journalists authorized to see it. The tunnel has also been sealed and dated, and only accessible since the safe.
“The conclusion was that the tunnel – which opens inside the deposit building, but apart from the safe safe – was not a viable way for anyone to try to delete substantial quantities of gold,” wrote Ganz. “The escape could only be done outside the safe, not the building itself.”
