It is a golden ticket that many have searched, but few who have obtained a few.
Even prominent legislators complain that they are forbidden to get a gander in the golden repository of the nation in Fort Knox. For decades, the only person who looked in addition to specially authorized staff.
Now President Donald Trump and his doge chef Elon Musk have wondered if the gold is real.
A powerful visit through the world's richest man and the world's most powerful could be ahead.
Trump, who said that windmills can cause cancer and have collected doubts about the Kennedy murder, has said that the gold has disappeared explicitly.
'We are actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there, because perhaps someone has stolen the gold. Numerous gold, “said Trump.
“I assume the gold is there, but it is certainly reasonable for people to check,” Senator Ted Cruz told DailyMail.com. “It would be interesting.”
“Maybe Goldfinger is it?” Senator Lindsey Graham joked, pointing to the classic James Bond film with a plan to irradiate the stock.
One person who could make the balance of the stock that the visit was called, nothing less than great – and in detail described what it's like in the safe.
President Trump and Elon Musk each spoke about visiting the golden custodian at Fort Knox
“We have to look, I think,” said Senator Jim Justice (R.VA.), although he said that he could put the issue “lower on the totem pole” when he was asked by DailyMail.com. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) has tried to come in 'repeatedly' to be told no by the American currency.
The repository is 147.3 million, according to the currency.
A sitting legislator, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, was watching the Golden Stock in 2017 when it was appreciated at $ 186 billion. It was the first trip in the Bullion Depository since 1974.
“It just happened a bit as a result of an informal conversation,” he said at the time, after he joined a delegation to the Minister of Finance Steve Mnuchin.
“It is not even the annual level of financing for some of our large departments in the federal government,” said McConnell, overriding a lot.
Mnuchin, a Hollywood producer who posed famous for the American currency with wife Louise Linton, then said: “I assume the gold is still there. It would really be a whole movie if we came in and there was no gold. '
Musk himself has brutally posted what could be there.
'A live tour by Fort Knox would be great … Is the gold there or not? They say it is – is it real? Or did anyone spray the label? “He said on the podcast of Joe Rogan Experience.
“Well, I think they can discover it fairly easily,” said Senator Mike Rounds (Rs.d.).
In the midst of the mystery, made up or otherwise, a person who got an extensive look at the gold supply was not that short.
Dave Ganz was part of a contingent of 120 journalists and photographers who received the famous safes in 1974.
The Minister of Finance allowed the visit: “When rumors maintained that all the gold had been removed from the vaults,” according to De Munt.
Heavy lifting: Senator Mitch McConnell visited ft. Knox in 2017
There have been ongoing rumors about the 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: McConnell and Mnuchin took the journey into the path of totality for the solar eclipse on the day of their visit
Mnuchin also investigated the American currency together with wife Louise Linton
Mrs. Mary Brooks, director of De Mint, focuses her hand to the ceiling to show off the gold bars stored in the Bullion Depository of the United States at Fort Knox. Members of the Congress visited the facility with Mrs. Brooks in 1974
'We are actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there, because perhaps someone has stolen the gold. Tons of gold, “Trump said
“Even for the Jaded, the experience was downright great,” he wrote in an article from 2009 about the experience.
None of the public or even a person from the government outside of authorized staff had been there since FDR visited wartime in 1943.
Ganz described the difficult process of building the facility from '16,000 cubic foot granite, 4,200 cubic meters of concrete, 750 tons of reinforcement steel and 670 tons of structural steel. '
It was amid a persistent rumor that there was no gold left in FT. Knox resulted in the first opening of the custodian for the public in 1974. ”
The visit itself must have cost a good cent.
There were planes in the air all the time.
A bus that transported a group of journalists stopped on 'Bullion Boulevard'.
Former Rep. Phil Crane (R-Oill.) Said that he had presented the Tour “because of unbridled rumors that important parts of our golden reserves had disappeared.”
To protect themselves against such suspicions, vault doors were applied with sealing wax, special tape and signed cards that were meant to reveal if there was tampering.
One legislator, Clair W. Burgener (R-Calif.) Said the journalist: “I am personally convinced that only a conspiracy or a military invasion could get the gold outside.”
The vault that Ganz toured was as large as a 'comfortable apartment with four rooms'.
A legislator asked a guard about a rumor of a 'escape tunnel' in the repository.
There was a tunnel at a lower level, the legislator was only told after some back and forth were legislators and journalists were allowed to see it. The tunnel was also sealed and dated and only accessible from the safe.
“The conclusion was that the tunnel – which opens in the deposition building, but outside the actual safe – was no one viable means of trying to remove considerable amounts of gold,” Ganz wrote. “The escape could only be made outside the safe, not the building itself.”
