Trump's grade for monetizing his presidency: A+

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Trump family got about $500M from crypto venture but investors saw steep losses

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/trump-world-liberty-financial-crypto-alt5-sigma.html

Ambani Family Secured Trump Policy Wins While Backing Firm Linked to Donald Trump Jr. ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ambani-reliance-industries-america-first-refining-texas
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The Albania grift is really something else.



My post on Sazan Island went viral yesterday because the verifiable facts are shocking.

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 Arabia's Public Investment Fund wired him $2 billion. Senior Saudi officials objected. Mohammed bin Salman overruled them.

By the end of 2024, Affinity was managing $4.8 billion, almost entirely from foreign governments. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE. Today that number is $6.16 billion. 99% from foreign nationals.

The fee structure, disclosed to the Senate Finance Committee under investigation: Kushner charges the Saudis 1.25% annually on $2 billion in committed capital. Other investors pay closer to 2%. The Senate's own investigators called this "unusually high" for a firm with Kushner's experience level, or more correctly, complete lack of experience. As of mid-2024, Affinity had generated zero return on investment and had not distributed a penny of earnings back to any client.

He's charging governments tens of millions a year to have their money sit in a bank account.

In late 2024, Senator Wyden referred Kushner to the Department of Justice for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The same law that put Paul Manafort in prison.

Now Kushner is back in government. Trump's "Special Envoy for Peace." Negotiating with Iran. Negotiating with Russia. Negotiating ceasefire terms in Gaza. On behalf of the United States. Not chosen by Americans. No experience running an investment firm. No training or experience in international relations. His sole credential is that he married the president's daughter. All while managing $6 billion from the governments he is negotiating with.

Before Trump's second term started, Kushner publicly promised he would not raise additional capital while serving. The New York Times then reported he was actively soliciting $5 billion more from foreign governments. His lawyers confirmed the conversations. They said he "does not intend" to take it.

He said the same thing before he took it the first time.

The Senate Finance Committee and the House Oversight Committee are both demanding answers. They've asked for every communication between Kushner and foreign governments. They've asked Affinity to preserve all documents. Any destruction of records, they said in writing, will be treated as obstruction.

Now look at the ownership chart below. It was produced as part of a corporate investigation published June 3rd titled "Exporting the Abraham Accords: The Hidden Network Converging on Albania's Shoreline." My follower
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Five unnamed Albanian shareholders. 24% combined stake. Structured deliberately just below the 25% threshold that would require public disclosure under Dutch law.

That is someone trying to hide who is behind the money.

This is what corruption looks like when it's wearing a suit and has a law firm on retainer.

What do you call it when your government's negotiator is on the payroll of the governments he's negotiating with? "
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Albania protests target Kushner-linked project https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/albania-protests-kushner-development.html

The offspring of the guys that Liam Neeson slaughtered in Taken:



…..are now p@issed off at The Thin White Duke

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"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


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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

seems legit. Trumps gang are also greasing palms over in Albania for hotel deals but the locals aren't happy.
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The Trumps' have dispatched Bryan Mills to take out a few recalcitrant Albanians.

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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.
not dead yet # funk trunk and i.c.e. too (allergic to AI)
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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.

Classic. What is his logic there?
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It will probably take a while to unwind all of the corruption, but that which is out in the open is already staggering.

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And we aren't even counting the trades in the stock market and crude oil market "frontrunning" his posts on Truth Social and interviews with the media . . . If you think he wasn't trading on material non-public information, I have a bridge I want to sell you in Arizona.

Fox News host Dana Perino was left stunned after President Donald Trump's financial disclosure revealed nearly $1.4 billion in crypto earnings.

The reaction came right after reporters grilled Trump on Tuesday about the filing in a press gaggle outside Air Force One.

The 927-page document, released by the Office of Government Ethics, showed Trump earned nearly $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025 his first year back in the White House including $635 million in meme coin royalties, more than $500 million from token sales tied to World Liberty Financial, a crypto company co-founded by his family, and roughly $65 million in equity sales connected to the same venture.

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So much for the Emoluments Clause.

FYI: Obama's financial disclosure was 8 pages. Biden's was 11.


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Unparalleled corruption.

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Can you imagine being a Trump supporter and getting "bagged" by buying World Liberty tokens and meme coins while Trump made $800 million?

Talk about being LEFT HOLDING THE BAG!

The WSJ says about two-thirds of investors in Trump's meme coin are currently in the red according to crypto-data provider Nansen which tracks 1.48 million crypto wallets that bought the token since its 2025 launch.

Nansen's analysis of 26,663 wallets shows that 85% of World Liberty's $WLFI token buyers in the secondary market are underwater.

MAGA!

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Just days before his inauguration, Trump PUMPED his meme coin $TRUMP to a $15 BILLION MARKET CAP.

It's collapsed 97% in value since.

Pump and Dump.

Lmfao.



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Nothing to see here.
Just Trump trading up a storm and lining his pockets.






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This is called FRONT-RUNNING.
It's illegal.

MP Materials

Just days after his inauguration last year, Trump began acquiring stock in MP Materials, a Las Vegas company little known outside of the mining industry. In a series of eight trades through May, the disclosures show, Trump's accounts purchased between $22,000 and $155,000 of stock in the rare-earths producer.



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Yeahbut, um, HUNTER'S laptop!!!!

Pelosi!

Benghazi!!!!!!!!!!!!


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like your siggy, tnx.

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> I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative.
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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
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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
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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


It is but it's very unclear as this isn't being enforced as of yet.
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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


Thx Dajo.
I had filed rule #2 in my mind as the Twitter posts that some people have loved to spam the board with. They are long to scroll through.

I guess I would add the following commentary: "hey look, were you aware that Trump is doing all these vanity projects?"
But, I guess I thought the URL said it in itself, and so I didn't want to spam with a lengthy post.
But I'll keep in mind. Thx.

And Gosh, now look how long this has become.
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chazzed said:

Unparalleled corruption.




But, Hillary's emails!
Hunter Biden!!
Sleepy Joe!!!
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Crap, now I have to agree with Erick, son of Erick.

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sycasey said:

Crap, now I have to agree with Erick, son of Erick.




No, Eric has to agree with you
chazzed
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I know it's tough to keep up with all of the corruption, but does anyone know how this would help blue collar workers?

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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?



Make some money for Trump Industries and encourage insider trading by Wall St firms? WIN WIN
 
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