“If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off of politics, it’s the Trump family.”
—Eric Trump, who just got a $24M Pentagon Contract from the Trump administration
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ultrachrome on
>The BBC has examined trade volume data on several financial markets and matched them to some of the president’s most significant market-moving statements. It found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public.
It’s rampant and it’s happening with impunity.
Chuck57a on
It would really be interesting to know how much corruption there is in the United States government. I’m sure that both Republicans and Democrats are profiting.
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Related article in [The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/trumps-profiteering-hits-four-billion-dollars).
“If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off of politics, it’s the Trump family.”
—Eric Trump, who just got a $24M Pentagon Contract from the Trump administration
FOLLOW THE MONEY
>The BBC has examined trade volume data on several financial markets and matched them to some of the president’s most significant market-moving statements. It found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public.
It’s rampant and it’s happening with impunity.
It would really be interesting to know how much corruption there is in the United States government. I’m sure that both Republicans and Democrats are profiting.