NYT Just Caught Trump And Lutnick Running $8.9 BILLION "Critical Minerals" Grift Through Their Own Sons. GOP hiding it.

[Amaryllis]

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/bombshell-the-nyt-just-caught-trump

The NYT Just Caught Trump And Lutnick Running An $8.9 BILLION “Critical Minerals” Grift Through Their Own Sons. FOURTEEN Companies. Zero Shame. Republicans Voted To Hide It.
Fourteen companies. $8.9 billion in federal money. Every deal touches a Trump son or a Lutnick son. That's not the appearance of corruption. That's the product.
Dean Blundell
Jun 29, 2026

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Eric Lipton and Paul Sonne put a number on what every honest person watching this administration has been screaming since January 2025: the Trump and Lutnick families are running a self-dealing operation with no precedent in American history. The Times found that at least 14 critical-minerals companies with financial ties to one or both families are right now being lined up for, or actively receiving, more than $8.9 billion in federal support.

Eight. Point. Nine. Billion. Dollars. To fourteen companies. All tied to two families. While the dads ran the negotiations.

Here is the centerpiece. Burn this into your skull.

September 23, 2025. The St. Regis Hotel, New York. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is doing a speed-dating circuit with Citigroup, Amazon, Chevron, you name it. Howard Lutnick — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — gets his own audience. He tells Tokayev, on tape that the Kazakhs later cheerfully posted to X, that “you have great critical minerals that we can invest in together.”

Halfway through the meeting, Trump calls in. On the phone. From the White House. To personally finish the negotiation for a “little-known” American company called Cove Kaz (since renamed Kaz Resources) to lock up access to one of the largest untapped tungsten reserves on Earth.

MUCH more at link.

[Ilsa]

1. And how does the USA benefit from this? That's our money,

especially since billionaires don't pay their share.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[surfered]

3. I'm sure Todd Blanch will have DOJ launch an investigation immediately

[erronis]

9. An investigation into who leaked this info. Critical minerals equals National Security!

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For some DU reason, equal signs in the title are removed (along with lots of other characters.)

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. Kick

[orangecrush]

5. K&R

[Envirogal]

6. This is why we need to $ support REAL journalism

and not the pundit and podcasters that feed off of real journalism.

[Cheezoholic]

7. Whose gonna stop them? Nobody n/t

[evolves]

8. JFC

I’m sick to death of these fucking grifters.

[Bristlecone]

10. This should be the number 1 story on every news outlet

But it won’t be.

[maxsolomon]

14. But it's the #1 story on the NYT

the same NYT that DU thinks is never critical of MFer.

[Attilatheblond]

15. The NYT has become a pendulum that is swinging

Not long ago, it was pointless to click a link to a NY Times report. Before that, it was a fairly reliable publication. Sure looks like the Times is swinging back to fairly reliable again.

[Joinfortmill]

11. Jeezus

[Mollyann]

12. The Teapot Dome Scandal

Pales in comparison.

[FakeNoose]

13. ...

[Wednesdays]

16. Kick and rec.

[sakabatou]

17. Just when you think it couldn't get more corrupt...

[progressoid]

18. I'm sure a congressional investigation will get to the bottom of this