Monday, December 08, 2025

From Crypto Bro to Commerce Secretary Pick (January 2025)

Trump's choice shows how his friends and their business interests benefit from policy positions in his administration.

Posted by LampLighter at 07:30 AM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink

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Trump on Jan. 7: "The United States is going to take off like a rocket ship, but really, it's already doing it" Howard Lutnick on March 9: "These prices are coming down and the process starts April 2" Lutnick on April 3: " ... you're going to get that [growth] starting in Q4"

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-- JM Rieger (@riegerreport.bsky.social) Dec 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM

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... "What deeply interests me is the interests of America."

Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of the Wall Street investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and Donald Trump's nominee to become the next secretary of commerce, was speaking to an audience of cryptocurrency enthusiasts last April.

"I can't be bought off. OK? There's just no possibility someone can come up and say: Hey, I'll give you a dollar and can you do this, that or the other thing,'" he said. "What interests me is what's great for America. And the dollar is great for America." ...

As a chairman of the Trump transition team, Lutnick has talked in terms of personal loyalty about ensuring that administration appointees have fully committed to the Trump agenda. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-06 09:25 PM

@#1 ... Lutnick has talked in terms of personal loyalty about ensuring that administration appointees have fully committed to the Trump agenda. ...

Loyalty to Pres Trump uber alles.

Not fully committed to the Constitution, but fully committed to the Trump agenda.

Qualifications for the position do not seem to matter. Unfettered obsequious loyalty to Pres Trump is all that seems to matter.

Perhaps that is why Sec of Defense Hegseth still has a job ...



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-06 09:27 PM

Crypto is one of the biggest enemies of the dollar and American economic security, but it is a great friend to the money laundering nations of the world.

#3 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-08 07:54 AM

Lutnik and his spawn are extorting the US.

#4 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-08 10:58 AM

I'll write it once more: Cryptocurrencies are vehicles for criminal activity and naked speculation only--nothing more, nothing less...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-12-08 02:26 PM

" Cryptocurrencies are vehicles for criminal activity"

I liken it to playing online poker with five other folks...

...who are all in the same room, sharing hands.

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-08 02:30 PM

And rightwing El Salvador was the first country in the world to use bitcoin as legal tender.

Figures.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-08 02:34 PM

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