Retiring Guy's Digest: TRUMP CRIME FAMILY: Pay to play the critical minerals way (Kazakhstan edition)

Sunday, June 28, 2026

TRUMP CRIME FAMILY: Pay to play the critical minerals way (Kazakhstan edition)

Headline: New York Times, 6/29/2026

Paul Sonne and Eric Lipton report:

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. [emphasis added]

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, helped 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.

More posts about the most corrupt presidential administration in history:

April -June 2026

Pay to play the priestly way. (6/23)

Pay to play the no-bid way (Reflecting Pool edition). (6/19)

Oh, the irony! Trump's best-worst approval rating is on the issue of CRIME. (6/17)

Pay to play the methane-leaking way. (6/16)

Pay to play the tariff break way. (6/12)

Pay to play the ballroom way. (6/8)

Pay to play the White House Way (Gautam Adani edition). (5/16)

Pay to play the cabinet member way (White House shakedown). (4/1)

March 2026

Pay to play the White House ballroom way. (3/25)