BREAKING: This is unusual trading by a politician.
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th.
On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs.
Marjorie sits on the Homeland Security Committee.
Palantir is up nearly 50% since.
a lot of someones traded lucratively on Sunday's news
The $580 calls went 1400%, turning $1.2 million into nearly $16 million, IN ONE DAY!
The craziest thing, THEY EXITED ALL THEIR POSITIONS THIS MORNING!!!!
Someone knew. They traded it beforehand. Insane.
Great timing for AG Bondi
https://www.propublica.org/article/p...-stock-tariffsAttorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares of Trump Media the same day that President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according torecords obtained Wednesday by ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/s...-trump-tariffsTwo days before President Donald Trump announced dramatic plans for “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign imports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in almost three dozen companies, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.
The Feb. 11 sales occurred near the stock market’s historic peak, just before it began to slide amid concerns about Trump’s tariff plans and ultimately plummeted after the president unveiled the details of the new tariffs on April 2.
Disclosure records filed by Duffy with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show he sold between $75,000 and $600,000 of stock two days before Trump’s Feb. 13 announcement, and up to $50,000 more that day.
(my posts on Pelosi can be found on previous pages of this thread)
https://www.propublica.org/article/u...-trump-tariffsMore than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides have made well-timed trades since Trump took office in January, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war, according to a ProPublica review of disclosures across the government.
All of the trades came shortly before a significant government announcement or development that could influence stock prices. Some who sold individual stocks or broader market funds used their earnings to buy investments that are generally less risky, such as bonds or treasuries. Others appear to have kept their money in cash. In one case unrelated to tariffs, records show that a congressional aide bought stock in two mining companies shortly before a key Senate committee approved a bill written by his boss that would help the firms.
Using nonpublic information learned at work to trade securities could violate the law. But even if such actions aren’t influenced by insider knowledge, ethics experts warn that trading stock while the federal government’s actions move markets can create the appearance of impropriety. The recent trades by government officials, they said, underscore that there should be tighter rules on how, or if, federal employees can trade securities.
“The executive branch is routinely engaged in activities that will move the market,” said Tyler Gellasch, who, as a congressional aide, helped write the law on insider trading by government officials and now runs a nonprofit focused on transparency and ethics in capital markets. “I don’t think members of Congress and executive branch officials should be trading securities. To the extent they have investment holdings, it should be managed by someone else outside their purview. The temptation to put their own personal self-interest ahead of their duties to the country is just too high.”
There is no evidence that the trades by government officials identified by ProPublica were informed by nonpublic information. Still, when government officials trade stock at opportune times, Gellasch said, even if it was based on luck and not inside information, it undermines trust in government and the markets
Rahm is a scoundrel
https://prospect.org/power/2024-11-1...-stock-trades/But before we get there, Emanuel, currently the U.S. ambassador to Japan, will have to answer for some of his personal financial maneuvers while serving in a government job. Periodic transaction reports filed with the Office of Governmental Ethics over the past two years suggest that Chicago’s golden boy may be better served returning to his roots on Wall Street, given the six-figure trades he executed at highly opportune moments in U.S.-Japanese trade relations.
Among the millions of dollars of stock trades Emanuel conducted between 2021 and 2024 while serving as ambassador, one purchase jumps out. On September 29, 2023, Emanuel bought between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of stocks in CoreWeave, a leading AI cloud computing service.
Emanuel’s purchase took place one day before the Japanese government announced a $320 million subsidy to Micron Technology to manufacture storage components that are essential to the Nvidia chips which CoreWeave relies on for its AI computation services.
“The milestone announcement today by METI (Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry) and Micron symbolizes the investment and integration of our two economies and supply chains,” Emanuel said in a statement celebrating the subsidy. “And that will only accelerate from here forward.”
Emanuel has also worked closely on initiatives expanding Nvidia’s domination of AI computation through partnerships between Amazon, Nvidia, and Japanese and American universities, which he announced in April. As CoreWeave steers toward an IPO, its last funding round in May saw its stock price jump over 425 percent, suggesting Rahm made at least a million dollars off a single trade.
But CoreWeave is not the only financial action Emanuel has fit in between his official duties in Japan. He also purchased between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of Ocient stock on March 8, 2024, before the close of the firm’s series B raise. The Chicago-based data analytics company’s CEO Chris Gladwin traveled to Japan in October on a trade delegation mission to “meet with … counterparts in Tokyo to discuss strengthening economic cooperation between the State of Illinois and Japan.”
Lawmakers Traded Stocks Heavily as Trump Rolled Out ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...ff90?st=DmMDyNThe most active traders, as measured by the number of trades, during the week following Liberation Day were Khanna and Bresnahan, as well as Reps. Jefferson Shreve (R., Ind.), Julie Johnson (D., Texas) and Michael McCaul (R., Texas). Lawmakers are required to make filings showing trading by the lawmakers as well as close family members.
Trump hates anti-corruption bill
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/senator...-pissed-hawleyTHE SENATE IS LONG OVERDUE for a recess. The hundred people with the biggest egos in the Capitol have started to reach for each other’s throats. Lawmakers got especially grabby during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday to mark up a bill meant to ban the ethically dubious practice of trading on stocks and commodities while in office.
The bill they were considering is called the HONEST Act, which would ban trading for lawmakers. In a last-minute update,the ban was extended to the president and vice president as well, which prompted a furious lobbying effort by the White House to tank the legislation. Republicans in the hearing fought over the bill and the question of whether it conflicts with what they see as their primary duty: running cover for President Donald Trump.
The bill was initially led the “Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act,” a jab at the Democratic former House speaker whose portfolio has become something of a gold mine for hobbyist traders. But the contents of the bill were in line with a longstanding Democratic policy objective: a ban on lawmakers using their position to engage in corruption (or, at the very least, unethical behavior) through stock trading.
Pelosi retires
What she did on the sly Donald Trump is doing out in the open
https://nypost.com/2025/11/08/us-new...ofit-of-16930/Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband made at least $130 million in stock profits over the course of the California Democrat’s 37 years in Congress — a staggering return of 16,930%.
Pelosi, 85, announced this week she will retire when her term ends in January 2027.
The San Francisco pol became famous as the first woman to wield the speaker’s gavel, and infamous for her exceptional stock market returns.
Democrats dont like when they get push back for their corruption........Trump slaps snowflakes with government shutdown......lmao
You Iove corruption.
jawbones market related to the war with Iran, cashes in
3700 trades in 3 months. An average of approx 1233 trades a month or 61 trades a trading dayhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...f-transactions
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676904342/The financial disclosures revealed this week that Trump or his advisers had made “at least $220 million in financial transactions in the securities of major U.S. companies” during the first three months of 2026, Bloomberg previously reported. On Saturday, Wingrove provided additional details on the president’s financial disclosures.
“President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he or his investment advisers made more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter, a flurry totaling tens of millions of dollars and involving major companies that have dealings with his administration,” Wingrove wrote Saturday in a social media post on X.
feathering that nest
hasn't been to work in nearly three months
we are smol beans US legislators
MIKE JOHNSON STATES THAT CONGRESS MEMBERS' $174,000 SALARIES ARE FALLING BEHIND INFLATION AND THEY REQUIRE STOCK TRADING FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, ACCORDING TO MONEYWISE.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...First, Trump quietly buys up to $5 million of Dell stock.
Then, he urges his followers to “go out and buy a Dell.”
Today, his Pentagon awards a $9.7 billion deal to Dell.
wash, rise, repeat
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...ade602f5c5c?xePresident Donald Trump purchased stock in the company that will receive a fortune in publicity thanks to his decision to promote an Ultimate Fighting Championship event on the White House South Lawn next month.
Trump purchased between $15,001 and $50,000 of stock of TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of UFC, on March 25, according to a HuffPost review of his May 12 financial disclosure filing.
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