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popsdenver

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10. There were absolute fortunes made
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 12:27 AM
Monday

by Senators & House members in Trump's first term, and it is probably even greater now. When Congress critters get inside information they act on it immediately, and most likely share that info with their largest campaign donors and friends who are oligarchs.

Take that female Senator from somewhere down south whose husband is the president of the New York Stock Exchange during covid.
She and a select group of Republican Senators got advance notice of Trump finally going to acknowledge just how bad it was.
That afternoon, the SEC reported that they were tracking 20 Million in trades by her that afternoon, and still counting. Getting out of certain stocks that were going to crater because of the announcement by Trump in the next day or two, and getting into stocks that were going to do incredibly well due to Trump's impending announcement.

After the SEC reported that, suddenly the whole issue disappeared from radar........LOL

And the number of times Trump would make an announcement, and they immediately sell their shares "short", then two days later he reverses himself and they then buy the shares back when those same stocks rebound to what it was originally..............

Hell, it is being reported that MTG came into office with 700K, and a few years later they place her net worth between 15 & 25 MILLION....

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