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致《泰晤士报》编辑约瑟夫·卡恩的法律信函称，特朗普兄弟并未参与科夫资本相关协议的运营工作
作者：彼得·达布罗斯卡
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独家报道： 福克斯新闻数字频道获得的法律信函显示，特朗普集团要求《纽约时报》撤回一篇其称之为“诽谤性”的报道，并称该报刻意营造小唐纳德·特朗普与埃里克·特朗普存在财务不当行为的假象。
这封信函针对的是本报本周发表的一篇题为《特朗普达成十亿美元矿业交易，其子或将获利》的报道，该报道将特朗普兄弟与商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克的儿子与2025年9月唐纳德·特朗普总统与哈萨克斯坦总统卡西姆-若马尔特·托卡耶夫达成的钨矿交易联系起来。
“您6月28日的报道极具误导性，且显然是刻意营造一种虚假印象，即小唐纳德·特朗普与埃里克·特朗普参与了或将哈萨克斯坦钨矿项目授予科夫资本关联公司的决策，或对该决策施加了影响，”特朗普集团律师艾伦·加滕在致《泰晤士报》的信函中写道。
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这封信函的收件对象是《泰晤士报》总编辑约瑟夫·卡恩，以及该报道的作者埃里克·利普顿和保罗·松内。
“正如您方的报道以及对相关人士的采访所明确显示的那样，这一暗示显然是虚假的，”信函继续写道。
《纽约时报》的一位发言人对其报道进行了辩护，并就该信函向福克斯新闻数字频道回应称：“特朗普集团并未否认我们报道的核心内容：埃里克与小唐纳德确实从美哈钨矿开采协议中获利。”
“这封信主要质疑报道是否足够突出两位兄弟是间接且被动的投资者这一事实——而这一点在报道中已有明确阐述，”《纽约时报》媒体关系执行主任查理·施塔特兰在声明中补充道。
钨是美国用于研发包括导弹和战斗机在内的军事装备的矿产。目前，中国、俄罗斯和朝鲜垄断了这一资源，特朗普政府已将获得该矿产的供应渠道列为战略优先事项。
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哈萨克斯坦拥有丰富的钨矿资源，特朗普在第二任期伊始就寻求与这个中亚国家达成协议，以获取其钨矿供应——尽管他自己的关税政策导致了该金属进口的价格飙升和供应链瓶颈。
2025年9月，在纽约瑞吉酒店举行的会晤中，这项交易的筹备工作达到高潮，卢特尼克在此会晤东道主托卡耶夫。特朗普通过电话参会，各方就美国采购钨矿达成了口头协议，据《泰晤士报》报道。美国政府融资机构的意向书于11月正式签署。
《泰晤士报》的报道源于特朗普兄弟与一家名为多米纳里证券的投资公司的关系。特朗普兄弟投资了多米纳里证券经办的部分交易，并持有其母公司多米纳里控股公司的少数股权。
以色列总理内塔尼亚胡就颇具争议的“狗强奸”报道起诉《纽约时报》诽谤
一位知情人士详细解释了特朗普兄弟如何成为钨矿开采项目的被动投资者。
2025年8月，多米纳里证券旗下的一支投资基金收购了一家名为斯凯莱建筑的上市建筑公司的股份。
在2025年9月达成口头协议后，斯凯莱接洽了投资了钨矿开采项目的科夫资本，提议合并以帮助科夫资本的关联公司科夫哈萨克公司上市，该消息人士透露。该项目获得了美国政府融资机构总计高达16亿美元的意向书支持。
该消息人士重申，特朗普兄弟从未对将采矿合同授予哈萨克斯坦资源公司的决策施加任何影响。
这一点在致《泰晤士报》的信函中也得到了印证，信函中写道：“小唐纳德·特朗普与埃里克·特朗普绝对没有参与哈萨克斯坦项目的授予工作。”
此外，根据福克斯新闻数字频道获得的法律信函和第三方沟通信息，科夫资本直到2025年9月口头协议达成约一个月后才与斯凯莱建筑取得联系。
这些沟通信息还显示，科夫资本领导层在融资落实前从未与特朗普兄弟中的任何一位就此事进行过沟通。
乌莎·万斯嘲讽《纽约时报》将其“怀孕时尚”与“政治意义”挂钩
“唐与埃里克既未掌控两家公司，也未参与科夫资本对哈萨克斯坦项目的竞标，对此毫不知情，未参与任何与该项目相关的谈判，甚至从未与斯凯莱、科夫资本或其各自关联公司的任何人讨论过哈萨克斯坦项目，”特朗普集团致《泰晤士报》的信函中写道。
“因此，他们与科夫资本的联系非常疏远、间接且极其薄弱。”
这封信函指责《泰晤士报》在披露特朗普兄弟与钨矿开采项目之间微弱的关联之前，故意误导读者。
《纽约时报》因父亲节“跨性别爸爸”报道遭抨击 批评者称该报“正在腐蚀我们的孩子”
“事实上，在报道发表前，您方团队发给我当事人的一条消息中明确承认，唐与埃里克并未‘积极参与这笔交易’，”信函中写道。
“基于上述情况，我们要求《纽约时报》立即撤回或显著更正该报道所造成的虚假和误导性印象，并确保未来的任何报道都能准确反映无可辩驳的事实，包括小唐纳德·特朗普与埃里克·特朗普未参与相关实体的任何运营工作，完全没有参与哈萨克斯坦项目或其谈判，且根据无可辩驳的时间线，他们根本不可能影响该项目的授予。”
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信函最后明确保留解决该问题的所有权利和救济措施，包括可能提起法律诉讼。
特朗普集团在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中对《纽约时报》进行了谴责，称报道暗示特朗普兄弟与科夫资本的钨矿交易有关“完全虚假、具有误导性且构成诽谤”。
该声明阐述了事件的时间线，并重申特朗普兄弟并未掌控科夫资本、其关联公司或斯凯莱建筑。
“当然，所有这些事实都很容易查证，如果《纽约时报》或任何转载这篇所谓报道的出版物的任何人在发表这些鲁莽且毫无根据的言论之前，哪怕做最基本的尽职调查，都能轻易核实这些事实，”声明说道。
白宫也发表了看法。
“指导特朗普政府决策的唯一特殊利益是美国人民的最佳利益，”白宫发言人库什·德赛在给福克斯新闻数字频道的声明中说道。“确保并将美国关键供应链回迁一直是特朗普总统的首要任务，卢特尼克部长以及政府其他成员继续采取历史性行动，维护美国的国家和经济安全。”
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商务部未回应就该交易或卢特尼克的两个儿子不当从该协议中获利的指控置评的请求。
彼得·达布罗斯卡是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者。
‘Libelous’ NYT report tying Trump family to government-backed deal sparks legal demand
July 2, 2026 10:48am EDT / Fox News
A legal letter to Times editor Joseph Kahn argues the brothers had no operational role in the Cove Capital agreement
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump Organization is demanding the New York Times retract a story it calls ‘libelous’ and claims was deliberately crafted to suggest financial impropriety by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, according to a legal letter obtained by Fox News Digital.
The letter stems from a Times story published this week titled “Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit,” which ties the elder Trump brothers and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons to a tungsten deal secured by President Donald Trump with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in September 2025.
“Your June 28 article is deeply misleading and appears deliberately crafted to create the false impression that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were involved in, or sought to influence, the decision to award the Kazakhstan tungsten mine project to an affiliate of Cove Capital,” Trump Organization attorney Alan Garten writes in a letter to The Times.
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The letter is addressed to The Times’ editor-in-chief Joseph Kahn, along with the authors of the story, Eric Lipton and Paul Sonne.
“As your own reporting and interviews with those involved all clearly demonstrate, that implication is demonstrably false,” the letter continues.
The wilderness and steppe landscape in Issyk-Kul lake Region, a Jeti-Oguz and Tong district, Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, with far view of town(Getty Images)
A spokesperson for The New York Times defended its reporting and addressed the letter by telling Fox News Digital: “The Trump Organization does not deny the main point of our story: That Eric and Donald Jr. have profited from the U.S.-Kazakh tungsten mining agreement.”
“The letter mainly disputes whether the article gave enough prominence to the fact that the brothers were indirect and passive investors — a point that is clearly set out in the story,” NYT’s Executive Director of Media Relations Charlie Stadtlander added in the statement.
Tungsten is a mineral used by the United States to develop military equipment, including missiles and fighter jets. Currently, China, Russia and North Korea have a stranglehold on the resource, and the Trump administration has made it a strategic priority to secure a pipeline to obtain the mineral.
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Kazakhstan is rich in tungsten, and from the outset of his second term in office, Trump sought to make a deal with the Central Asian country to tap into its tungsten supply — even as his own tariff policies have caused price surges and bottlenecks for the import of this metal.
That makings of a deal culminated in a September 2025 meeting at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, where Lutnick hosted Tokayev. Trump joined by phone, and the parties came to a verbal agreement for the United States to procure tungsten, according to The Times. The letters of interest from U.S. government financing agencies was officially inked in November.
The Times’ report stems from the Trump brothers’ relationship to an investment firm called Dominari Securities. The brothers invest in some deals made by Dominari and they have a minority share in its parent company, Dominari Holdings Inc.
Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson prepare to board Air Force One on July 1, 2026 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Trump is traveling to North Dakota to attend the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library dedication on his first trip using the new Air Force One aircraft gifted to the U.S. by Qatar’s government.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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A source familiar with the matter explained the details of how the Trump brothers became passive investors in the tungsten mining operation.
An investment fund by Dominari Securities invested in a publicly traded construction company called Skyline Builders in August 2025.
After the verbal September 2025 agreement, Skyline approached Cove Capital, the company that invested in the tungsten mining project, and solicited a merger that would allow Cove Capital affiliate Cove Kaz to go public, the source detailed. The project has been backed by letters of interest from U.S. government financing agencies totaling up to $1.6 billion.
At no point, the source reiterated, did the brothers have any influence over the decision to award the mining contract to Kaz Resources.
This is echoed in the letter to the Times, where it states: “Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had absolutely no involvement in the award of the Kazakhstan project.”
Furthermore, Cove Capital was not introduced to Skyline Builders until about one month after the September 2025 verbal agreement, according to the legal letter and third-party communications obtained by Fox News Digital.
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Those communications also reveal that Cove Capital leadership never spoke to either of the Trump brothers about the financing support before it was executed.
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“Don and Eric exercise no control over either company, played no role in and no knowledge of Cove Capital’s pursuit of the Kazakhstan project, participated in no negotiations relating to the project, and never even discussed the Kazakhstan project with anyone at Skyline, Cove Capital or any of their respective affiliates,” the Trump Organization letter to The Times says.
“Their connection to Cove Capital is therefore remote, indirect and highly attenuated.”
The letter accuses The Times of intentionally misleading readers before it revealed the tenuous relationship between the brothers and the tungsten mining project.
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People walk past The New York Times Building, a 52-story skyscraper on the west side of Midtown Manhattan on January 14, 2025 in New York City.(Al Drago/Getty Images)
“Indeed, in a message to my clients sent prior to publication of the story, your team expressly acknowledged that Don and Eric were not ‘actively a part of this deal,’” the letter says.
“Based upon the foregoing, we demand that The New York Times promptly retract or prominently correct the false and misleading impression created by the article and ensure that any future reporting accurately reflects the undisputed facts, including that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had no operational role in any of the entities involved, no involvement whatsoever in the Kazakhstan project or its negotiations, and, as a matter of indisputable chronology, could not have influenced the award of the project.”
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The letter ends by expressly reserving all rights and remedies to solve the problem, including potential legal action.
The Trump Organization sounded off on The New York Times in a statement to Fox News Digital, calling the insinuation that the Trump brothers had involvement in the tungsten deal to Cove Capital “categorically false, misleading and libelous.”
The statement addresses the timeline of events and reiterates that the Trump brothers had no control over Cove Capital, its affiliates or Skyline Builders.
“Of course, all of these facts are readily ascertainable and could have easily been verified had anyone from the New York Times or any other publication that republished this supposed story performed even the slightest amount of due diligence before proceeding with such reckless and unfounded assertions,” the statement said.
President Donald Trump addresses reporters at the White House.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The White House also weighed in.
“The only special interest guiding the Trump administration’s decision-making is the best interest of the American people,” said White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Securing and reshoring America’s critical supply chains has been a top priority for President Trump, and Secretary Lutnick along with the rest of the Administration continue to take historic action to safeguard America’s national and economic security.”
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The Commerce Department did not return a request for comment on the deal or allegations that Lutnick’s two sons improperly benefited from the agreement.
Peter D’Abrosca is a politics reporter at Fox News Digital.
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