The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: ProPublica

The president’s eldest son said through a spokesperson that he wasn’t involved. The Pentagon said Trump Jr. played no role in the record-setting deal. And the startup’s founder told reporters that his company, Vulcan Elements, received no political favoritism.

But interviews and Defense Department records reviewed by ProPublica show that the request to loan hundreds of millions of dollars to the firm linked to Trump Jr. was made by Peter Navarro, a White House adviser to President Donald Trump and a friend of Trump Jr.’s.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was considering funding at the time, Vulcan’s was the only deal initiated by a top aide to the president, said an official at the Pentagon who was not authorized to speak publicly.

After defense officials got the White House request, they asked Pentagon staff to move at an unusually rapid pace, said another person who was involved in the deal at the Pentagon but not authorized to speak about it. The staff worked late nights and with little sleep to get the loan through in a matter of weeks, the source said.

Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-vulcan-deal-white-house

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Quote from the insider: "The call came from the White House: We have to get this done"

[C_U_L8R]

1. Navarro must be pining for the jailhouse.

This serial criminal clearly has not learned his lesson.

[purr-rat beauty]

2. But but but....Hunter Biden

These POS grifters are the scummiest of hypocrites

When the pedo-felon is out of the way, his progeny are next.

[riversedge]

3. 'The deal is one of many actions by the Trump admin that have helped companies in which the Trump family holds'

The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.

by Robert Faturechi
May 28, 2026, 5:00 am


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“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said.

The deal is one of many actions by the Trump administration that have helped companies in which the Trump family holds stakes. Government contracts and other benefits have gone to various Trump-linked companies, prompting allegations of self-dealing by Democratic lawmakers and good government experts. But ProPublica’s reporting on the Vulcan loan represents the first time the awarding of a contract from a federal agency has been directly linked to White House intervention.

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-vulcan-deal-white-house

[chouchou]

4. Vulcan Elements probably imports those Beautiful Trump phones.

The ones that are Pure Gold Color. (Actually look like fat bananas)

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Maeve]

6. Another day, another grift

[BradBo]

7. The whole family and administration are a bunch of grifting crooks.

[skennis1]

8. But...

...Hunter's laptop?

[BidenRocks]

9. I'm so old...

I remember when the mention of impropriety would back people away.
Now, Anarchy reigns!

[Retrograde]

10. Whatever they accuse Democrats of

you can be sure that Donnie and his ilk do themselves. They can’t conceive of anyone doing anything for the benefit of the people and country in which they don’t get a big cut themselves

[Strelnikov_]

11. But Hunter Biden . . . yadayadayada

[mdbl]

12. I hope someone is keeping track of all the corruption

It needs to be prosecuted when the Orange Tangerine is out of office.

[City Lights]

13. The Trump swamp overflows into every corner of America.

The corruption is off the charts, and the spineless Guardians of Pedophiles sits by silently.