Ivanka Trump’s landlord may be 'trying to buy her silence' on sulfide mine that threatens clean water, says Bush ethics chief Richard Painter
A former chief ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush raised concerns Saturday that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s billionaire landlord could be trying to influence the senior White House advisers in a manner that would help him to build a sulfide mine in Minnesota that environmentalists call a threat to clean water.
Painter began arguing against the proposed mine in December 2017, when The Journal reported that the Trump administration reversed an Obama-era decision that blocked a plan by Luksic’s company to build a copper and nickel mine near the Minnesota wilderness area. He resurfaced that story on Twitter Saturday and commented, “What a scam.
The former Bush ethics chief said Ivanka Trump had previously shown herself to be somewhat sympathetic toward environmental causes and is probably the only such voice the Republican Party had in the White House. Painter said he does not know if Ivanka Trump and Kushner leasing from Luksic poses a legal conflict of interest, but that the arrangement “looks bad.”
In December 2017, Twin Metals Minnesota, which is running Antofagasta’s mining project, said it was “pleased” with the Trump administration’s reversal of Obama-era regulations. A White House official at the time told The Journal that Ivanka Turmp and Kushner “were not aware of the situation, had nothing to do with it and have never met their landlord.”
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