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THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN RECENT U.S. HISTORY.
Trump's sons made a secret investment in a company which might get $1.6 Billion from U.S government.
In August 2025, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump quietly bought into a Nasdaq-listed company called Skyline Builders through a shell company. No public announcement or disclosure at the time.
What happened next is where it gets uncomfortable.
In September 2025, Kazakhstan's president personally told Donald Trump he was awarding a major tungsten mining contract to a US firm called Cove Kaz. The Trump sons already had money in Skyline. Skyline was about to merge with Cove Kaz.
One week after details of that agreement leaked to the press in October, the Trump sons went back in and bought more shares, adding to their position in a $24 million private placement.
Then in November, at a White House summit hosted by their father, the deal was made official.
The US Export-Import Bank committed $900 million. The Development Finance Corporation committed another $700 million. $1.6 billion in US government money, flowing to a project the president's sons had already invested in, twice.
But why does this deal even involve $1.6 billion in government money?
China controls over 80% of global tungsten supply. The US has not mined a single tonne of it commercially since 2015.
For aerospace and military applications specifically, US dependence on foreign tungsten is nearly 100%.
Starting this year, US law bans Chinese tungsten from military equipment entirely, which means the Pentagon needs an alternative source right now, and there isn't one at scale.
The merger was announced this week. The new company is called Kaz Resources, ticker KAZR on Nasdaq. The Trump sons now hold roughly 20% of it. Their names did not appear anywhere in the merger announcement.
Their spokesperson says they are passive investors with no government involvement.
Now consider what they are sitting on.
The US military legally cannot buy from China anymore. Global civilian manufacturers are also being cut off, China tightened its own tungsten export controls in early 2025 and exports dropped 13% in the first nine months of the year alone.
Tungsten prices already hit a 10-year high in 2024. Demand from the defense sector is projected to grow another 12% this year.
Kaz Resources is now positioned to supply a market where the dominant supplier just got banned, backed by $1.6 billion in US government financing, producing roughly 15% of current global tungsten output at full capacity.
They used government money to build the mine, government policy to eliminate the competition, and are now set to collect government contracts to fill the supply gap that same government policy created.
The Trump sons don't just profit from this deal. They profit from every single angle of it.