Secret Details of Trump Goon’s Link to Accused CIA Gold Grifter Exposed

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A top Donald Trump appointee lobbied for the CIA to let one of its agents take a greater role in spying on China while the same man was https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-goon-steve-feinberg-unmasked-as-cia-gold-hoarders-mentor/" rel="">under investigation over a bizarre multimillion-dollar alleged fraud.

Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, whom the president picked last year to serve as Pete Hegseth’s No. 2 at the Pentagon, contacted the agency roughly two months ago to ask that the agent, David Rush, be given a bigger role in a highly classified China-focused surveillance operation, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/us/politics/pentagon-cia-officer-gold-bars.html?smid=tw-share" rel="">the New York Times reports.

The two men are understood to have “worked closely” together on the interagency program.

The NYT is withholding further details at the behest of intelligence officials “because of the sensitivity of the operation.”

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