Don't kid yourself. The Bundrant's are no friend of NAK. "While the Canadian company was eager to extract riches from the ground, Chuck Bundrant, the billionaire founder of Trident Seafoods was apparently concerned about how the mine would affect his ability to extract riches from the sea. On August 24, the Trump administration changed tack, demanding that the mining firm fulfill a series of strict conditions to offset potential environmental issues.
Three days later Trump Victory, a joint-fundraising committee for the Republican Party and the president, received a combined $75,000 donation from Bundrant, his wife, and his adult son, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. The Bundrants, who had given to Republicans in the past but never to Trump, made their first contributions to the president.
Chuck Bundrant has been fishing the Alaskan waters since 1961, and today has a fleet of 41 vessels that trawl frigid seas and 16 processing plants, mainly spread across the Pacific Northwest. As far north as an island chain 750 miles from Anchorage, his family’s Trident Seafoods employs some 5,000 during peak season in Alaska to wrangle in all the salmon, cod and halibut their nets can hold. They are the main supplier to national fast food chains, including McDonald’s, Burger King and Long John Silvers, whom Bundrant secured in the 1980s with Alaskan pollock, which he was able to sell more cheaply than the more commonly used cod. Forbes estimates sales of the closely held private company at roughly $2 billion, and Bundrant a billionaire, worth $1.3 billion."
