Hunter Biden-style sleeze is just as slimy when the Trump boys do it

It was bad when the Bidens did it, and it’s just as bad when the Trumps do it.Insider deals, finders’ fees and backdoor introductions to family members are business-as-usual in Third World banana republics, but these slimy practices have now been normalized in the White House, to the shame of the nation.The New York Times reports that Eric and Donald Trump Jr., sons of President Donald Trump, and Kyle and Brandon Lutnick, sons of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, are tied to a billion-dollar tungsten-mining deal that the US government is financing in Kazakhstan.The prez himself actually called into a meeting between Howard Lutnick and Kazakhstan’s president as the deal was being finalized.Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment-banking company founded by Lutnick and now run by his sons, has long been a prominent underwriter of global-mining projects.Lutnick himself has stepped away from the company.

But Cantor Fitzgerald’s interests have certainly not been harmed by having its founder in Trump’s Cabinet: Cantor is an adviser or underwriter for at least 13 mining companies that have or are in the process of getting major financing or contracts from the federal government.The Trump sons, meanwhile, are part-owners or investors in companies neck-deep in a key defense contract to mine tungsten reserves in Central Asia.It stinks to high heaven.If a president’s family making bank from obscure resource companies in the former Soviet Union sounds familiar, maybe that’s because Hunter Biden’s lucrative connection to Burisma — a Ukrainian gas company — was a major scandal in the 2020 election and beyond.Republicans, including Donald Trump, were justifiably outraged at the obvious influence-peddling.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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