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Last September, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met Kazakhstan's president at the St. Regis in New York, with Trump joining by phone, to secure US access to one of the world's largest untapped tungsten reserves, a metal the Pentagon needs for missile warheads and fighter jets. Weeks later, a firm called Dominari Securities, based at Trump Tower and partly owned by Don Jr. and Eric, quietly took a 20 percent stake in the project, an investment not disclosed at the time. The federal government then approved up to $1.6 billion in financing for the company running the mine. Cantor Fitzgerald, run by Lutnick's own sons, separately raised $210 million for a related entity in the deal, fees included. The Times found the two families have financial ties to at least 14 mining companies now seeking or receiving federal support worth a combined $8.9 billion. Applebaum's reporting treats this as one example among dozens. It reads like the pattern, not the exception.