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More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging (www.propublica.org)
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Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.

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[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Surely the GOP media outlets will react to this with the same ire as they did when Nancy Pelosi did it.

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Surely.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

So did I, but it was before the inauguration

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Bet they did it this morning, too