Smoking guns in Trump's new financial disclosure: Trump publicly praised companies the same day he bought their stock
From Judd Legum:
1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.
— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2026-05-18T13:58:00.133Z
2. Primary source documents, videos, and all the reciepts:
— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2026-05-18T13:58:00.617Z
Judd's article at Popular Info
https://popular.info/p/the-smoking-guns-in-trumps-new-financial
has much more info about this. Concluding paragraphs:
By law, Trump was required to report all of these trades within 45 days. He missed that deadline for many of his trades. As a result, Trump was fined $200.
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of CLEARLY criminal behavior. After giving barrels of the proverbial ink to the potential nepotism involved in Hunter Biden's Burisma job just a few short years ago.
Assuming this is all accurate reporting from Legum (and his work is usually good), this literally should be on EVERY news program, and above-the-fold on ALL major newspapers.
But ... pffft. We all know THAT won't happen. Just "Trump being Trump", doncha know?
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