In a video released by the White House yesterday afternoon, Trump can be seen gesturing to two corporate executives, and heard saying, "he made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million. That's not bad." It also turned out to be "the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."
The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
πΏππ ππ§πͺπ’π₯ π₯πͺπ‘π‘ ππ£ ππ‘π‘ππππ‘ π₯πͺπ’π₯ & ππͺπ’π₯ π€π£ π©ππ ππ©π€ππ πππ§π ππ©? "This is a scenario that could expose the president to accusations that he engaged in market manipulation," Richard Painter, a government ethics professor at University of Minnesota's law school and the former chief ethics counsel to President George W. Bush, tells NBC News. Kathleen Clark, a government ethics and corruption professor at the Washington University School of Law, tells the New York Times that Trump's posts should trigger a probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying, "If we still had a rule of law, a robust system for the rule of law, it would be investigated." By Trump's own admission, he was thinking yesterday morning about reverting the tariffs β so the signal he was sending to his followers was pretty clear.
In a video released by the White House yesterday afternoon, Trump can be seen gesturing to two corporate executives, and heard saying, "he made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million. That's not bad." It also turned out to be "the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."
Too bad for everybody else.
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