#lutnick

Trump’s🚨CAB of curiosities wears matching $145 Florsheim Oxfords, gifted by him -reportedly eating the same “living diet" that consists almost entirely of hunks of meat & sauerkraut. Adherents are said to include: #Lutnick, #Duffy, #Vance & #RFKJr. His fav aide, N Harp,🚨passes #Trump positive news cov & good polls like she’s the “Mean Girls” -G Wieners. Other WH staffers & CAB mems➡️begun to emulate Harp: WH: overtaken by a kind of sycophancy Olympics... #Elections #USPol

The arrangement isn't an outlier. • The families have financial ties to at least 14 companies actively working w/ the #trump federal gov't on #mining deals, incl. #Kazakhstan project • All 14 companies have benefited from #TrumpAdmin financial offers or have pending permit applications with Commerce Dept that #Lutnick oversees • > $8.9 billion in federal funding the #TrumpAdministration has provided or considered 3 of 10🧵 (screenshots follow) #USA #USpol #corruption #business #RareEarths

Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar #Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit ~ ~ "This emboldened mixing of federal policymaking and personal business began shortly after Trump returned to office last year, when the #Trump and #Lutnick sons played a role in billions of dollars of #cryptocurrency deals as the fathers helped set policies that supercharged the #crypto industry." 4 of 10🧵 (screenshots continue) #USA #USpol #corruption #business #investment #Kazakhstan #RareEarths #tungsten #CantorFitzgerald

Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar #Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit ~ ~ "With its exceptional hardness, density and high melting point, #tungsten (is)... the 'war metal,' w/ key uses in munitions, aviation & weapons." 👀 The USSR's collapse "interrupted its plans for new mines in #Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic." And the last #USA mine stopped production ~10 yrs ago. 5 of 10🧵 (screenshots continue) #USpol #corruption #trump #lutnick #RareEarths #war #weapons #weaponry #aviation #munitions

"The U.S. desperately needs tungsten for the production of missile warheads, fighter jets, computer chips and other critical goods." 👀 Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit ~ 6 of 10🧵 (screenshots continue) #USA #US #USpol #corruption #trump #lutnick #business #investment #Kazakhstan #RareEarths #mining #tungsten ---

With the #US government cutting deals with Kazakhstan "at the highest levels" and pledging to finance "to make the math work," the #USA "could get access to an estimated 12,000 metric tons of #tungsten a year, about as much as is now imported annually." Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit ~ 7 of 10🧵 (screenshots continue) #USpol #corruption #trump #lutnick #business #investment #Kazakhstan #RareEarths #CriticalMinerals #mining ---

The #trump admin's recent deal w/ 'USA Rare Earth,' "gives the Commerce Dept. 16 million shares" of company stock. 👀 Congressional Dems called for an investigation, telling #lutnick in a letter it's ~'the latest example of how official Commerce Dept. business has intersected w/ #CantorFitzgerald 's financial interests during your tenure.' 8 of 10🧵 (screenshots continue) #USA #USpol #business #investment #CommerceDepartment #corruption #mining #Kazakhstan #CriticalMinerals #tungsten

In Dec 2012, #Epstein invited #HowardLutnick, now #Trump’s #commerce secretary, to his island for lunch, records show. Lutnick’s wife accepted the invitation & said they would arrive on a yacht with their children. On another occasion in 2011, the 2 men had drinks, acc/to a schedule shared w/Epstein. #Lutnick claimed he cut ties with Epstein long ago. A Commerce Dept spox said Lutnick had “limited interactions with Mr. Epstein in the presence of his wife & has never been accused of wrongdoing.”