The billionaire hidden behind the curtain inside Trump’s Pentagon

Media-shy financier Stephen Feinberg has quietly amassed extraordinary influence over US military spending The only available video over the last 15 months of the official who really wields power in Donald Trump’s Pentagon is a cartoon animation. Released in May on X by the US government, it shows a silver haired figure in a grey suit lighting up a cigar and sitting at a massive wooden desk with a nameplate: DEPSECWAR FEINBERG. Stephen Feinberg, the 66-year-old billionaire founder of private ...

By Aram Roston in Washington