Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as Commerce Secretary
a sign of crypto's new political clout Dan Alexander / Forbes : ‘The Most Hated Guy On Wall Street’: The Unspoken Story Around Howard Lutnick, Trump's Pick For Commerce Secretary Wall Street Journal : Trump Picks Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary Naga Avan-Nomayo / crypto.news : Report: Trump eyes Tether custodian Lutnick for Commerce Chief Prashant Jha / CCN.com : Tether's Wall Street Ally Howard Lutnick: Donald Trump's Top Pick for Commerce Role Ronak Kumar / The Crypto Times : Trump Picks Pro-Bitcoin Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary Daily Sabah : Trump picks Wall St veteran Howard Lutnick to be Commerce Secretary Evans Karanja / Inside Bitcoins : Bitcoin Price Hits New ATH After Trump Selects Howard Lutnick As Commerce Secretary, But Analysts Say Consider This PolitiFi Token For 10X Gains Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion : Trump Nominates Howard Lutnick for Commerce Secretary Chris Morris / Fast Company : Why the crypto community loves Howard Lutnick, Trump's pick for Commerce secretary Derek Andersen / Cointelegraph : Donald Trump taps crypto advocate Lutnick as commerce secretary Joshua Ramos / Watcher Guru : Trump Nominates Pro-Bitcoin Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary Shayan Chowdhury / Coinpedia Fintech News : USDT Issuer Tether's Wall Street Banker Becomes Trump's Pick for Commerce Chief: Reports New York Times : Trump Taps Wall St. Executive Howard Lutnick for Commerce Secretary Godfrey Benjamin / CoinGape : Tether Advocate Howard Lutnick To Get Commerce Secretary Job: Report Noor Bazmi / Cryptopolitan : Trump picks a pro crypto government official once again Sander Lutz / Decrypt : Bitcoin, Tether Bull Howard Lutnick Is Trump's Pick for Commerce Chief—Not Treasury NPR : Trump picks Wall Street investor Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary Estefano Gomez / Crypto Briefing : Trump to pick Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as Commerce secretary Nick Pope / The Daily Caller : Trump Selects Howard Lutnick To Run Commerce Department Bluesky: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life.bsky.social : I have no idea if the price of eggs is going to come down next year but the price of sh*tcoins has nowhere to go but up. X: Whitney Webb / @_whitneywebb : Lutnick is also a big stablecoin guy and wants bitcoin to be only a reserve asset, not a p2p digital cash system, and wants people to transact instead w stablecoins like Tether (Lutnick's favorite). Tether is openly teamed up w the FBI and seizes ppl's money whenever the US govt Dave Troy / @davetroy : Once again, the Musk-backed candidate emerges as the winner. Lutnick is also deeply tied to Bitcoin and to the “stablecoin” known as tether. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...