Trump Family Investments Linked to Kazakh Mining Deal and U.S. Export Credit

A Kazakh mining company merged in April with Skyline Builders Group, an American developer. Among Skyline Builders' largest investors are President Donald Trump's sons, Don Jr. and Eric. That Kazakh mining company was created in a 2025 deal facilitated by President Trump and Kazakhstan's president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

The Trump administration supported the 2025 deal with a $900 million line of credit from the Export-Import Bank.

Builders is a project of American Ventures, which is owned by Dominari Holdings. Eric and Don Jr. reportedly own about 12% of Dominari. Dominari Holdings is headquartered in Trump Tower, and American Ventures is headquartered in Palm Beach. Eric and Don Jr.

sit on Dominari Ventures' advisory board. American Ventures targets drone manufacturing, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence, sectors where the Trump administration has issued supportive policies.

After his election but before his inauguration, President Trump launched a cryptocurrency called the Trump coin, ticker symbol $TRUMP. CIC Digital, owned by Trump, charged transaction fees on purchases of the coin. In late 2024, Eric Trump announced the creation of World Liberty Financial.

The Trump family, through DT Marks DEFI LLC, owned most of the company at that time. World Liberty Financial issues a cryptocurrency called $WLFI and another called $USD1. An investment fund backed by the government of Abu Dhabi purchased 50% of the Trumps' World Liberty Financial stake days before the inauguration, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Two months after a March 2025 White House meeting, the administration committed to give Abu Dhabi access to around 500,000 advanced AI chips a year.

President Trump told the New York Times that he prohibited his sons from doing business with foreign governments during his first term and received no credit for the decision. "I found out that nobody cared, and I'm allowed to," he said.