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Top Trump goon Howard Lutnick\u2019s Wall Street approach to his portfolio at the Commerce Department has apparently left staff at a total loss on how to actually get anything done. <\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople who have worked closely with Mr. Lutnick in government describe him as a shrewd negotiator who eyes every contract for signs he could be ripped off,\u201d The New York Times writes in a new report, published Thursday, on Lutnick\u2019s turbulent tenure at the department under the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut his insistence on such personal scrutiny has led to bottlenecks, and employees complain that some of the department\u2019s functions have slowed to a crawl,\u201d the newspaper went on. \u201dCompany executives and foreign officials have found him erratic, saying his aggressive style has made for rocky relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The insider leaks form just one part of an explosive NYT review of how Lutnick\u2019s background as a cut-throat corporate tycoon has shaped his stewardship of the Commerce Department.<\/p>\n

Take the carmakers. U.S. auto manufacturing executives apparently spent months trekking to Lutnick\u2019s \u201cwood-paneled office\u201d to plead their case last year after Trump\u2019s tariffs on imported components threatened to cost the industry billions.<\/p>\n

The secretary and his team finally told them relief was coming in October in the form of a credit covering duties on vehicle parts built in America, backdated to when the tariffs first hit in May. But then, he pulled the rug on them. <\/p>\n

Lutnick told the same executives in December that the relief would kick in half a year later than they were promised, in an about-face that will cost each automaker hundreds of millions of dollars. <\/p>\n

The executives privately griped about being misled but were unwilling to challenge the move in public, given Lutnick\u2019s influence over their business prospects. The department apparently says he never told them the credit would be backdated.<\/p>\n

The New York Times further outlines how Lutnick\u2019s own art of the deal was forged over decades at Cantor Fitzgerald, the brokerage Lutnick, then still in his 30s, wrested from an aging Bernard Cantor in a move likened by one adviser to a \u201cpalace coup.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lutnick went on to build a sprawling empire of more than 818 corporate entities, the Times found, with firms tied to the billionaire secretary thought to have paid out north of $50 million over money laundering, bogus disclosures, and other claims of misconduct over the years. <\/p>\n

\u201cHoward was a hustler, an opportunist and someone who was willing to push the boundaries,\u201d Rupak Ghose, a former corporate rival, told the newspaper. <\/p>\n

His approach to business negotiations, described by the NYT as \u201cbare-knuckle\u201d and \u201cbrash,\u201d has bruised U.S. allies during his time as commerce secretary. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s openly told reporters that Canadian negotiators \u201csuck,\u201d and his broadsides against Europe at January\u2019s World Economic Forum irritated European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde so much that she stormed out mid-way through a dinner. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that was just too much and just unnecessarily offensive,\u201d Lagarde later told The Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n

Then there are the revenue experiments. The \u201cTrump Gold Card\u201d promised to fast-track immigration paperwork for foreigners willing to cough up $1 million, though only one applicant had been approved as of an April hearing. <\/p>\n

He also floated clawing back half the profits universities earn on federally funded patents, and engineered a workaround letting Washington skim 25 percent off Nvidia\u2019s AI chip exports to China, though Beijing\u2019s resistance has so far kept any from going through.<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has contacted the Commerce Department for comment on this story. <\/p>\n

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A spokesperson told the NYT that Lutnick \u201chas delivered important wins for the American people,\u201d including \u201cbringing manufacturing back to the American soil.\u201d<\/p>\n

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