Howard Lutnick

🎯 Primary Loyalties (Ranked)

1. Donald Trump
2. Cantor Fitzgerald and Wall Street
3. Cryptocurrency Sector
4. Republican Party

📋 Actions That Prove It

• ✓Pledged to spend more than $100 million on get-out-the-vote efforts for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign following the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
• ✓Served as co-chair of Donald Trump's 2024 presidential transition team, helping vet cabinet nominees.
• ✓Publicly endorsed Trump's proposed tariffs of up to 60% on Chinese imports during a October 2024 CNBC interview, arguing they would protect American industry.
• ✓Expanded Cantor Fitzgerald's role in cryptocurrency by providing backing services to Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, USDT, with reserves exceeding $100 billion as of 2024.

⚠️ Contradictions

• •Donated $2,800 to Sen. Chuck Schumer's 2020 reelection campaign and contributed to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, despite current alignment with Trump and Republicans.
• •Supported protectionist trade policies like high tariffs on China, which many Wall Street executives and financial firms, including aspects of his own industry, have criticized as inflationary and disruptive to markets.
• •Emphasized 'America First' populist rhetoric focused on American workers, while leading a bond-trading firm primarily serving institutional investors and high-net-worth clients.