Trump nominee at U.S. export bank withdraws amid scrutiny of Russia ties

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post

Trump nominee at U.S. export bank withdraws amid scrutiny of Russia ties

Bryce McFerran is a former senior executive at a steel-trading business co-owned by one of Russia’s richest oligarchs and is married to a member of a Russian family with extensive ties to the Kremlin.

October 29, 2025 at 5:43 p.m. EDT


Bryce McFerran is the acting chief banking officer at the U.S. Export-Import Bank. (Export-Import Bank of the United States)

By Catherine Belton, Ben Stockton and Greg Miller

The Trump administration’s nominee for a top federal position promoting international commerce has withdrawn his candidacy amid scrutiny of his role as a senior executive at a steel-trading business co-owned by one of Russia’s richest oligarchs, and his relations by marriage to a Russian family with extensive ties to the Kremlin.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/29/trump-nominee-export-bank-russia/

[wcmagumba]

1. Good Effing Grief, it just doesn't end with the Trump crime family...

[ffr]

2. I wonder what would happen to him if he were a Russian in Russia found with compromising ties to America?

We all know what would happen to him. He'd be arrested by the FSB and disappeared. His family would be interrogated and put under surveillance and on and on.

But in this weird authoritarian Russian friendly Krasnov era, the guy simply gets turned down for knocking at the same door.

[Buddyzbuddy]

3. How corrupt must this arrangement be if they had to

withdraw before getting much pushback?