Posted on 06/30/2026 8:04:39 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Trumps do something the Bidens don’t they pay taxes on their busines and no 25 off shore bogus names for them.
“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.”
So a company with a long history of financing mines is scandalous financing a new mine.
That makes me very skeptical about the report.
Cantor is tied to the interests of Lutnick and the Trump sons.
So yes.
It ain’t lucrative until the W flows.
And there is an amazing amount of the stuff accessible in the US, though it would probably take the Kazak capitalization just to appease all the clinger agencies here prior to digging /processing since some of the best is in CA...
Eric and Don Jr. smoke crack and film themselves having sex with underaged girls and hookers? I hadn’t hear that.
They could be Dominican monks. That’s not the issue.
It’s influence peddling.
Ahh, how cute... A filthy hit piece on Trump’s kids from the same NYTimes writers that didn’t bat an eye to Hunter’s escapades.
The issue I was responding to was the deliberately misleading headline. It was deliberately written the way it was so that headline browsers wouldn’t distinguish between Hunter Biden’s influence peddling and his sleazy sexual exploits.
There is of course, the false equating of the Trump sons’ business dealings with Hunter Biden’s influence peddling that those like yourself are doing. But that’s another matter and not the target of my initial comment.
The moral sleaze of Hunter Biden can’t be matched by the Trump sons, but the fact is that they netted a hundred times more than he did based on connections.
When it comes to getting their beak wet, the Family Trump makes the Biden crew look like pikers
Nahhh...but I did bring a rag so you can wipe the goo off your chin from the dems lined up to greet you.
Have a nice vacation?
The numbers that were reported came from the disclosure report officially released by the White House.
And this is a masthead editorial...
Guess News Corp is dropping the last bit of pretense.
The Post has always been flashy, even when it was liberal pre-Murdoch.
Getting past the headline, the substance of the story, the Trump boys cashing in on a mining deal, is disturbing.
Back from Nova Scotia a couple weeks ago. Off to Paris Monday. Warm but not crazy hot according to the forecast.
And completely twisted and misrepresented by this hit job report.
Next?
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