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\n\tDonald Trump<\/a> has been milking every dollar and cent he can find out of his second presidency. Personal jets, real estate deals, crypto rug pulls and shady foreign investment deals are just the tip of the international corruption<\/a> iceberg, and while far less grand, he\u2019s also partaking in more mundane forms of graft. Namely lots, LOTS, of stock trades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNew stock trading data published this week by the Office of Government Ethics revealed that Trump made over 1,000 stock trades<\/a> in the month of June. The president, whose financial portfolio is theoretically<\/em> supposed to be held by an independent third-party trust, moved millions in stocks<\/a> and ETFs for major companies including SpaceX, Palantir, Vanguard, Berkshire Hathaway, Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to an analysis by Yahoo Finance, the total volume<\/a> of trades made in June clocked in between $78.1 million and $263.1 million. The administration denies that the president had any direct hand in the trades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNeither President Trump nor any member of his family has any ability to direct, influence, or provide input regarding how the portfolio is invested or when investments are bought or sold,\u201d the White House told The Wall Street Journal. <\/em>\u201cAll holdings are maintained in discretionary accounts and invested through computer-based model portfolios that automatically replicate recognized indexes, such as the Schwab 1000.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYet, given how openly the president and his family are building a multi-billion dollar fortune by exploiting the power of the presidency, the notion that their trade portfolio is their last bastion of ethical behavior has been received with a heavy serving of skepticism.\u00a0For example in April, Trump posted on Truth Social<\/a> that it was a \u201cGREAT TIME TO BUY\u201d just hours before announcing his first round of global \u201cliberation day\u201d tariffs, triggering wild swings in investment markets. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn July Trump bragged to CNBC<\/a> that his sons \u2014 who manage the majority of his family\u2019s business empire \u2014 had access to \u201cinsider information\u201d when conducting transactions and crafting deals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cEvery time my kids do, if they invest in a stock, or they go and do a building, anything they do, because the presidency is so powerful, so big, everything, if they buy a cupcake company, well, the energy to make the cupcakes is, you know, sort of like, how\u2019s my energy policy? So, therefore, you have a conflict,\u201d Trump said at the time.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll in all, regardless of the doubtful independence of the Trump family\u2019s stock portfolios, financial analysts estimate that the president\u2019s portfolio has moved over $1 billion<\/a> in volume during his first year in office. According to financial analyst and investor Steve Rattner, Trump\u2019s growth in net worth over his first two years in office is an astronomical $4.2 billion increase. Next to that, the $3.2, $1.6, and $0.6 million dollar jumps former presidents Geroge W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden respectively saw in their first two years look positively meager.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I previously reported that the growth rate and composition of Trump’s wealth gain in office are unprecedented in recent history.<\/p>\n

Upon request, here is the data on the relative size of Trump’s presidential windfall. The extent of his self-enrichment is even more striking. pic.twitter.com\/lDzTSug2Ja<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\tDemocrats have taken notice. Earlier this month, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) issued a letter<\/a> to the president highlighting the recent push in Congress for a ban on stock trading by elected officials. \u201cWe all support a ban on Members of Congress trading individual stocks in order to avoid\u00a0 conflicts of interest\u2014or even the appearance of conflicts. Your stock trading in 2025\u2014 reportedly more than 14,000 stock trades worth up to $1.06 billion\u2014was more than all 535\u00a0 members of Congress last year combined,\u201d they wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe appearance of numerous conflicts of interest from a President trading in individual stocks \u2013\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tincluding the potential for insider trading, market manipulation, and policy decisions that benefit\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tthe President\u2019s stock portfolio rather than the public interest \u2013 undermines public trust in\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tGovernment,\u201d the letter added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThat trust is long gone, and the president will be ending his term significantly richer than when he was sworn in.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to elected lawmakers to find the mechanism to hold him \u2014 and his financial cronies \u2014 to account. So far, he\u2019s gotten away with all of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n