My post on Sazan Island went viral yesterday because the verifiable facts are shocking.
— Michael T. Lester (@MichaelTLester) June 10, 2026
Here's what I left out: Sazan is just one piece of a much bigger operation.
Jared Kushner started Affinity Partners in July 2021. One day after leaving the White House.
Within weeks, Saudi… pic.twitter.com/BAHQDygEFR


seems legit. Trumps gang are also greasing palms over in Albania for hotel deals but the locals aren't happy.bearister said:
"When Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Kazakhstan's president at the St. Regis Hotel last September in New York, President Trump jumped in by phone as the men sealed a deal on a top priority for Washington.
During the call, Mr. Trump and his team won an agreement from the Kazakh leader to give a little-known American company access to one of the world's largest untapped reserves of tungsten, a metal that the United States desperately needs for the production of missile warheads, fighter jets, computer chips and other critical goods.
Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.
It was not only Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick who saw an opportunity.
Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history.
Within weeks of the St. Regis negotiations, investors with a firm called Dominari Securities, which is housed at Trump Tower in New York and partly owned by the president's two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, joined with other partners to take a 20 percent stake in the Kazakhstan project.
Around the same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment company controlled by Mr. Lutnick's family and overseen by his sons Brandon and Kyle Lutnick, one of the lead investors working with Dominari on the Kazakh deal raise $210 million in new capital for a related entity. Such rounds of fund-raising typically net Cantor millions of dollars in fees.
The was ultimately signed on Nov. 6, six days after the investment involving the Trump sons and their partners, which was not publicly disclosed at the time.
The arrangement is hardly an outlier. One or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies that are actively working with the federal government on critical mining deals, including the Kazakhstan project, according to federal filings examined by The New York Times.
All 14 of these companies have either benefited directly from offers of financial assistance from the Trump administration, or have pending permit applications before the Commerce Department, which Mr. Lutnick oversees, The Times found. The total amount of federal funding that the Trump administration has provided or is considering providing to the companies exceeds $8.9 billion, according to public statements by the companies and federal government.
The White House and the Commerce Department, in separate statements, rejected any suggestion that the Trump administration was improperly mixing government actions with family business.
"The only special interest guiding the Trump administration's decision-making is the best interest of the American people," Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, said in a statement to The Times. "Securing and reshoring America's critical supply chains has been a top priority for President Trump, and Secretary Lutnick along with the rest of the administration continue to take historic action to safeguard America's national and economic security."
Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/europe/trump-lutnick-sons-kazakhstan.html
smh said:
liked this grab from bluesky today..
https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mpe4nteaes24
> As war continued erupting across the Middle East, Donald Trump was posting that the Iran memorandum of understanding is going to make American farmers and truckers rich.
> Donald Trump has spent his entire career as a con man. He is a deal breaker, not a deal maker.
The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.
— Steve Rattner (@SteveRattner) June 30, 2026
According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors. pic.twitter.com/6tbUccKxTi
Americans realizing Trump out-traded Pelosi in just 1 year compared to what she did in 25 years https://t.co/XxjlGxxqyL pic.twitter.com/QVHcT1z8Ec
— This You? (@Thiss_Youu) July 3, 2026




concordtom said:
The URL explains it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/from-gold-coins-to-an-international-airport-in-florida-heres-a-look-at-all-the-trump-branded-projects-in-the-works-205624636.html
dajo9 said:concordtom said:
The URL explains it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/from-gold-coins-to-an-international-airport-in-florida-heres-a-look-at-all-the-trump-branded-projects-in-the-works-205624636.html
I think that is a violation of rule #2
https://bearinsider.com/forums/6/topics/135285/replies/2715288
dajo9 said:concordtom said:
The URL explains it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/from-gold-coins-to-an-international-airport-in-florida-heres-a-look-at-all-the-trump-branded-projects-in-the-works-205624636.html
I think that is a violation of rule #2
https://bearinsider.com/forums/6/topics/135285/replies/2715288
chazzed said:
Unparalleled corruption.Americans realizing Trump out-traded Pelosi in just 1 year compared to what she did in 25 years https://t.co/XxjlGxxqyL pic.twitter.com/QVHcT1z8Ec
— This You? (@Thiss_Youu) July 3, 2026
For the better part of a decade, Republicans built a movement on two promises. The first was to “drain the swamp” — Donald Trump’s 2016 vow, hashtagged 79 times in the campaign’s final three weeks, to end the culture of self-dealing in Washington. The second was to expose the…
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 16, 2026
sycasey said:
Crap, now I have to agree with Erick, son of Erick.For the better part of a decade, Republicans built a movement on two promises. The first was to “drain the swamp” — Donald Trump’s 2016 vow, hashtagged 79 times in the campaign’s final three weeks, to end the culture of self-dealing in Washington. The second was to expose the…
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 16, 2026
BREAKING: Trump Media is reportedly seeking up to $100,000/month from hedge funds & traders for "millisecond-fast" access to Trump’s posts. — FT
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) July 17, 2026
chazzed said:
I know it's tough to keep up with all of the corruption, but does anyone know how this would help blue collar workers?BREAKING: Trump Media is reportedly seeking up to $100,000/month from hedge funds & traders for "millisecond-fast" access to Trump’s posts. — FT
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) July 17, 2026