BREAKING: Rachel Maddow exposes Trump’s BRAZEN stock trading scheme: He buys low, then uses the presidency to pump the stocks!
In her weekly MS NOW broadcast on Monday, Rachel Maddow just laid out what appears to be one of the most blatant and heinous cases of self-dealing by a sitting president in modern history.
According to her reporting:
* In January, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Nvidia stock → One week later, his Commerce Department approved Nvidia chip sales to China.
* Same month, he buys $50-100,000 of AMD stock → One week later, AMD gets the green light for China business.
*In February, Trump buys millions in Dell stock → Nine days later, he goes off-script in a speech and tells the crowd: “Go out and buy a Dell computer.”
*In March, he repeatedly buys Thermo Fisher stock → Then visits the company as president and publicly praises it as “incredible.”
*Same day as the Thermo Fisher visit, he buys hundreds of thousands in Apple stock → Then praises Apple and Tim Cook at another event.
*He buys Micron stock → The very next day he calls into Fox News to call it “one of the hottest companies.”
*He makes seven separate purchases of Palantir stock → Then jumps on Truth Social to hype the company and even posts its stock ticker.
This is about a zillion miles from normal investing. This is what you see when you look up “insider trading” in the dictionary.
Trump is a sitting president, whose 45 predecessors all put their assets into blind trusts during their presidencies, repeatedly buying stocks and then immediately using the power of the office to drive up their value.
With her usual flair, Maddow called it “fantastically, kaleidoscopically corrupt.”
And she’s absolutely right. The pattern is too consistent and too convenient to ignore. Trump is treating the Oval Office like his personal trading floor – buying low, then pumping the stocks with official actions and public praise.
Conflict of interest doesn’t begin to describe it accurately. It’s textbook market manipulation from the highest office in the land.
How many times have we heard “If this was any other president . . .”
But why? How on earth is Trump able to get away with all this?
Well, once the blue wave in November’s elections wipes out Trump’s congressional majority, we can at least put a stop to it.
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