To my surprise this is actually illegal for members of Congress per the STOCK Act of 2012:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
I was going to reply that this is totally legal but decided to fact check myself.
They all do it. There’s no other way to earn millions and millions of dollars making $174k a year…
There’s no way to make millions and millions from stock purchases on $174k in any short period of time. They’re using other funds.
There’s a word for that: corruption
Treason.
Yes, that’s another word that comes to mind.
Of course he did. And who owns Venezuela’s oil now? Trump donors.
The first US sale of Venezuelan oil since the Trump administration illegally attacked the South American country earlier this month went to the company of a trader who donated millions to President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. The roughly $250 million sale of Venezuelan crude went to Vitol, a Geneva-based energy and commodity trading firm whose US arm is headquartered in Houston. The Financial Times reported late last week that John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol, was involved in his company’s efforts to secure the deal. Addison, who attended a recent White House meeting with other top oil executives, donated $6 million total to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign via several super PACs, including $5 million to MAGA Inc.
I feel like that circle of people will be suspicious of anyone not grifting or insider trading.
That’s what they learned from Epstein right?
Trump’s administration doing something blatantly corrupt in the open and getting away with it completely… colour me shocked.
Understand there will be no justice. Even if Trump is kicked out, those with the power to go after him and his cronies simply won’t at this point.
Mark Wayne was worth something like 400k when he got into congress. Now 32 million, probably more now. He makes 174k a year. Definitely insider trading going on.
Was he asked this during the confirmation?
