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Jr. secretly invested in failing refinery backed by billionaire facing Trump tariffs

Influence Is the Product: The Ambani-Trump Refinery Deal Exposes How Power Sells AccessThe Actual PowerThis is not a story about a struggling Texas refinery finding capital. It is a story about the Trump family converting federal power into a marketable asset, and about major foreign capital learning exactly how to buy proximity to it.The source facts are plain: the president’s son secretly took a stake in America First Refining, top executives spoke regularly with him, and the company used Trump-family ties in pitches to foreign officials. Meanwhile, the president’s administration delivered…

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