Eric Lipton
speaker
759 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5 Aug
Eric Lipton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Lutnik is there and there's this elaborate room, the fountain blue room with these, you know, chandeliers and gold leaf all over the place.
And it's in that room where the president of Kazakhstan is meeting with the CEOs of some major American corporations.
Chevron's there.
Citibank is there.
And then it's meeting time for Lutnik, and he sits down and he wants to convince the president of Kazakhstan that this nation should give the United States access to this tungsten mine.
And part of his pitch is that there's this one company, an American-based mining company, very low profile, almost no one's ever heard of it.
He wants that one company to get access to the Tungsten mine.
And not only that, but he's essentially asserting that the United States government is tentatively prepared to put $1.6 billion behind that company to help it build the mine in Kazakhstan.
So while this pitch is underway, a phone call comes and it's President Trump and he's trying to help close the deal.
This is so important to the Trump administration that not only is the commerce secretary there making the argument, but the president of the United States is on the phone helping close the deal.
It couldn't be a higher level pitch to the president of Kazakhstan, who it's not every day that he gets a call from the president of the United States.
They end with a tentative agreement that this small American mining company is going to be able to get access to this site in Kazakhstan to build one of the world's largest tungsten mines.
But then something very interesting happens shortly after that meeting wraps up.
Within a matter of weeks, both Donald Trump Jr.
and Eric Trump, the president's two oldest sons, are investors in a group of partners that are actually buying into the same company that has just tentatively won the right to build this tungsten mine in Kazakhstan.
Yeah, that's right.
It's not public until the middle of October 2025.
So there's really almost no public way to get into this deal unless you have connections or knowledge of the players that were involved in it.
And we've repeatedly asked the partners involved, how did you first become aware of this opportunity?
Who told you?
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