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Further blatant insider corruption by the Trump family, in plain sight: Trump’s sons reportedly bought into a company connected to a strategic tungsten project, the project then became wrapped in U.S. government support, the market was made urgent by national-security policy, and the same family that controls the White House now appears to sit close to the upside. According to FT-based reporting, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump invested in Skyline Builders in August 2025 through American Ventures, a special purpose vehicle affiliated with Dominari Securities, and then added to that exposure in late October when Skyline raised nearly $24 million in a private placement. On September 22, Kazakhstan’s president told Donald Trump he intended to award a major tungsten mining project to Cove Kaz Capital, that details leaked in October, and that Skyline later paid $20 million for 20% of a company identified as Kaz Resources. The president’s sons reportedly buy into Skyline, Kazakhstan tells the president a strategic tungsten project is going to a U.S. firm, Skyline moves into the company tied to that project, and the combined structure later becomes Kaz Resources, expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker $KAZR The official merger materials did not mention Donald Trump Jr. or Eric Trump, while a spokesperson for Trump Jr. told the Financial Times he is a passive investor and does not deal with the federal government for companies he invests in or advises. The official SEC filing makes the business case look even more explosive. Cove Kaz acquired a 70% interest in Severniy Katpar LLP from Kazakhstan’s national mining company Tau-Ken Samruk, while Tau-Ken Samruk retained 30%. The assets include Northern Katpar and Upper Kairakty in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda mining district, and the company says the projects could eventually produce about 12,000 metric tonnes of tungsten per year, roughly 15% of current global production. The federal money.. The SEC filing says the U.S. Export-Import Bank issued a letter of interest for up to $900 million in project financing and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation issued a letter of interest for up to $700 million. That is $1.6 billion in possible U.S. government-backed support around a project linked to a corporate chain in which the president’s sons reportedly invested. And this is not just any mine. Tungsten is used in defense systems, aerospace, electronics, industrial tooling and other strategic applications, and the U.S. is trying to diversify away from concentrated supply chains. Cove Kaz itself says it will oversee offtake agreements with U.S. government customers and commercial buyers, which is precisely why the conflict looks so ugly: the state creates the urgency, the state helps finance the alternative, the state may become the buyer, and the president’s family reportedly has exposure to the vehicle positioned in the middle. The policy backdrop matters because it turns this from a mining story into an insider story. U.S. defense acquisition rules tighten restrictions around tungsten supply chains, and effective January 1, 2027, the restriction for tungsten metal powder, tungsten heavy alloy, and covered finished or semi-finished components extends from mining or production of tungsten ore or feedstock through production. In plain English: the Pentagon and defense contractors are being pushed away from risky foreign supply chains, exactly as a Trump-family-linked investment appears near a Kazakhstan tungsten alternative backed by U.S. agencies. That is why “passive investor” does not settle the issue. A passive investor can still profit from a system shaped by active political power. A passive investor can still be in the right cap table before public money, public policy and public procurement turn a speculative asset into something far more valuable. A passive investor does not need to lobby a single official if the family name, the presidency and the machinery of government already create the gravitational field. The same pattern appears again in defense drones. AP reported that Powerus, a Florida-based drone company backed by Donald Trump’s 2 oldest sons, was trying to sell drone interceptors to Gulf countries while those countries were under attack by Iran and dependent on the U.S. military led by their father. And the Trump brothers’ deal could give them sizable equity stakes, while Powerus denied conflicts and argued it was helping America catch up in a drone arms race. This is the same geometry as the tungsten story. War creates demand. Government policy creates urgency. Foreign governments need Washington. Crypto is the cleanest example because it strips the entire operation down to its raw mechanic. World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by President Trump and his sons, sends 75% of all new token proceeds to the Trump family, and that the family has already made more than $1 billion from World Liberty according to analysis. Investors, meanwhile..... locked funds, opaque governance and a structure in which many buyers cannot freely exit while the insiders have already extracted enormous value. Then Trump hosted top holders of his $TRUMP meme coin at Mar-a-Lago. 297 registered top holders attended, that the top 29 got a VIP reception and champagne toast with the president, and that ethics experts saw the event as a striking blend of presidential power and private speculative profit. The Trump family and affiliated entities had taken in more than $1 billion from crypto asset sales, including at least $336 million tied to meme-coin sales in the first half of 2025 alone. It was not a campaign dinner where donors at least move through regulated channels. It is a market mechanism in which people can buy, hold, trade and pump a president-linked asset while the president remains the central promotional object. The foreign-money angle makes it darker. A member of the Emirati royal family was behind a $500 million investment into the Trump family’s crypto company just before Trump’s inauguration, and that months later the administration allowed the UAE to import 500,000 advanced Nvidia AI chips despite concerns that the technology could eventually reach China. Again, no one needs a cartoon villain scene where someone says: here is the bribe, now change the policy. The corruption is more sophisticated than that and more modern. It works through optionality, exposure, proximity and timing. A foreign power invests in a Trump-family-linked venture, that same foreign power later receives a major strategic technology opening, and the public is told to pretend there is nothing to see unless a signed quid pro quo appears on White House stationery. That is the trick. They have built a system where the absence of a smoking gun is treated as innocence, even when the whole room is full of smoke. The tungsten deal is so dangerous because it combines every piece of this model in 1 place: a strategic commodity, Chinese supply-chain pressure, U.S. defense needs, Kazakhstan diplomacy, U.S. agency financing, a Nasdaq merger, shell-linked investment by the president’s sons, and an official announcement that leaves their names out of the merger materials. Ffs. If that is not enough to trigger outrage, then the word “corruption” has been emptied of meaning. Tungsten. Drones. Crypto. AI chips. Foreign investors. Federal financing. Defense procurement. Meme-coin access. Strategic minerals. Shell vehicles. Public listings. Private placements. Every sector touched by government urgency seems to produce another Trump-family opportunity. This is a family business feeding off the presidency. Massive. The real scandal is not that they are hiding it badly. The real scandal is that they no longer seem to feel any need to hide it at all.

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