Eric Lipton

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759 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 5 Aug

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The Daily · The Unprecedented Personal Profits of Trump’s Presidency · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

So they don't touch what Howard Lutnick is doing, but yes, they're helping some of these same companies raise private capital.

I mean, this is an important American priority and it is good that the Trump administration now and that the Biden administration before it were focused on finding a way to get access to these metals that are essential to the U.S.

economy.

But there's a lot of risk involved as well because you've got to pick the right partners

that you're putting money into to pursue these metals?

And are these companies really capable of producing the vital ingredients for American manufacturing?

Or are these simply entrepreneurs that see an opportunity to make money and that don't actually have the experience or the willingness to pursue it for the years that it's gonna take to be successful miners?

And I mean, with this, these are vital to the future of the United States and our competitiveness, our military defense,

And we're betting enormous amounts of tax dollars in backing these companies.

Huge risk, I mean, for the taxpayers, for every single person in the United States.

So it's really important that the outcomes here are determined by who's the most capable of actually successfully mining these sites and not simply who's the closest to the president or who stands to profit the most.

Right.

I mean, when I spoke to the presidential historians, I asked them to give me examples that, you know, any kind of comparison and anything they came up with seemed trivial.

I mean, they cited, for example, George W. Bush, who was on the board of an oil company when his dad, George Herbert Walker Bush, was president.

Or Billy Carter, the brother of Jimmy Carter, endorsed a beer called Billy Beer when his brother was president of the United States.

Or Hunter Biden, who, when his dad was vice president, was working as a consultant and board member to a Ukrainian gas company and also as a consultant to some Chinese companies, brought incredible scrutiny.

But we're talking the dollar amounts were trivial compared to what the Trump sons are now seeing here.

Well, because I got no credit in the first term.

I didn't do deals.

I could have done so many deals.

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