Hunter Biden-style sleaze is just as slimy when the Trump boys do it

New York Post ^ | June 29, 2026 | Post Editorial Board

[Miami Rebel]

It was bad when the Bidens did it, and it’s just as bad when the Trumps do it.

Insider deals, finders’ fees and backdoor introductions to family members are business-as-usual in Third World banana republics, but these slimy practices have now been normalized in the White House, to the shame of the nation.

The New York Times reports that Eric and Donald Trump Jr., sons of President Trump, and Kyle and Brandon Lutnick, sons of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, are tied to a billion-dollar tungsten mining deal that the US government is financing in Kazakhstan.

The prez himself actually called in to a meeting between Secretary Lutnick and Kazakhstan’s president as the deal was being finalized.

Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment banking company founded by Lutnick and now run by his sons, has long been a prominent underwriter of global mining projects.

Lutnick himself has stepped away from the company. But Cantor Fitzgerald’s interests have certainly not been harmed by having its founder in Trump’s cabinet: Cantor is an adviser or underwriter for at least 13 mining companies that have or are in the process of getting major financing or contracts from the federal government.

The Trump sons, meanwhile, are part-owners or investors in companies neck-deep in a key defense contract to mine tungsten reserves in Central Asia.

It stinks to high heaven.

If a president’s family making bank from obscure resource companies in the former Soviet Union sounds familiar, maybe that’s because Hunter Biden’s lucrative connection to Burisma — a Ukrainian gas company — was a major scandal in the 2020 election and beyond.

Republicans, including Donald Trump, were justifiably outraged at the obvious influence-peddling.

Hunter Biden’s role as Biden family bagman....became the emblem of a rotten, damaged Oval Office.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
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[Tell It Right]

Is this a deal that undermines America’s interests, like Hillary’s Uranium One? Or like Hunter’s Burisma One getting China sweet energy deals while China paid for our energy-suppressing “green” movement?

[Kleon]

“The New York Times reports”

Stopped reading right there.

[Miami Rebel]

Good for you.

If you didn’t read it, it didn’t happen.

[HereInTheHeartland]

And the big crypto currency money they have made

[bobbo666]

“....now...”? Well, that goes to show that the NYP is little better than CNN.
Pi$$ off.

[pierrem15]

Right now critical supplies of tungsten are firmly controlled by the Chinese.

If this stinking deal is necessary to break China's monopoly, then I suggest we put on our nose clips.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Trumps children and cabinet are business people as opposed to the junky child of Biden so these deals are not corrupt per se. That said if our policy towards Kazakhstan is affected by personal relationships that would be corrupt. If there were evidence of this you can bet the rat media would be screaming it from the rooftops instead of their current insinuations.

[Responsibility2nd]

This must not be true. Because anytime I read anything I do not like to hear then I immediately dismiss it as lies and propaganda by the MSM. And anyone who believes this is an effing TDS traitor .

Signed Angry Trumper

[mlitefan]

If I read it in the NYT’S it still didn’t happen.

[Responsibility2nd]

Is this a deal that undermines America’s interests, like Hillary’s Uranium One? Or like Hunter’s Burisma One getting China sweet energy deals while China paid for our energy-suppressing “green” movement?

Or what if it's an ordinary insider trading deal like Nancy Pelosi makes which just doesn't harm the country; it only makes them millionaires.

Would that make it OK?

[TexasFreeper2009]

the difference is the Trump kids are actually smart and are an asset to any business where as Hunter was a crack head just collecting checks

[bootless]

Perceived smarts aside, it’s still not right.

[JBW1949]

Did you mean New York TIMES????

[Tell It Right]

The article wasn't relating the Trump kids' deal to Pelosi. Otherwise I would have stated it's wrong.

But the article related it to Hunter Biden's business deals. To which I say a glaring difference is that the Trump families deals aren't undermining America's security like Hunter's deals did.

[sauropod]

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[Liz]

Like this doesnt go on in every presidency.

Btw, did Trump’s policy towards Kazakhstan change in any way?

[Responsibility2nd]

I grant it that the Bidens screwed over the country.

And the Trumps are only lining their pockets.

But as they do this, they must be compared to Pelosi. And Omar. And most other dirtbags in DC who do the same. It’s not a good look.

[Mouton]

This is the same crap that POS Biden was pointing to recently.

[Tell It Right]

But as they do this, they must be compared to Pelosi. And Omar. And most other dirtbags in DC who do the same. It’s not a good look.

I agree with you. Except the context is of this NYT article which compares the Trumps not to Pelosi (insider trading, ostensibly not deals though that undermined national security), but to Hunter (sweetening his pockets while undermining national security).