First Daughter Ivanka Trump made headlines last month when she shared in an interview that she and Jared Kushner are hard at work building a $1.4 billion luxury resort on an uninhabited island off the coast of Albania, both because of the way she described discovering the land (they were on a friend’s boat, naturally, swam out to shore, and hiked “barefoot all the way up to the top”) and because of the convenient timing of it all. (Kushner’s company won approval from Albania to build the complex — on a “sensitive coastal wetland area home to flamingos, seals and sea turtle nesting sites,” per Politico — right before Donald Trump took office for the second time.) Massive protests have since broken out, and Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors have opened an investigation into the project.

But Eric and Donald Trump Jr. weren’t going to stand back and let their sis hog this particular spotlight (the spotlight in which one engages in deals that look ethically dubious at best.) Here’s the New York Times on what the Trump boys have been up to:

When Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Kazakhstan’s president at the St. Regis Hotel last September in New York, President Trump jumped in by phone as the men sealed a deal on a top priority for Washington.During the call, Mr. Trump and his team won an agreement from the Kazakh leader to give a little-known American company access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten, a metal that the United States desperately needs for the production of missile warheads, fighter jets, computer chips and other critical goods.Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.It was not only Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick who saw an opportunity.Their........

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