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Trump and Lutnick families poised for unprecedented back-door payday: report
State Power, Family ProfitThe Deal Was the PointA New York Times report says the Trump administration quietly backed a lucrative Kazakhstan tungsten deal, approved up to $1.6 billion in federal financing for Kaz Resources, and left Trump’s sons and Howard Lutnick’s sons positioned to benefit. That is the bare context. The real story is simpler: public authority was used to grease a private extraction deal, then wrapped in the language of commerce.Who Actually Held PowerThe decision-makers were not anonymous market actors. President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of…
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