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That person is reportedly in jail and facing serious time. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-jails-venezuela-leaker-suspicious-163206487.html https://financ
by nostromo 9mo ago
That person is reportedly in jail and facing serious time.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-jails-venezuela-leaker-suspicious-163206487.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-jails-venezuela-leaker-...
Anyone with a security clearance making bets like this is not a smart person.
- teknopaul 9mo agoStats on politicians trading habits, indicates insider trading like this is standard practice in the USofA. No beleives MAGA nuts are trading experts.
- tsimionescu 9mo agoPoliticians don't have anything to lose from this. There is (shockingly!) nothing illegal about politicians making trades based on decisions that they know they are about to take that have a significant and easily predictable impact on the market. By contrast, making public bets based on classified information that you are not authorized to publicize is a simple and relatively direct breach of laws regarding the handling of classified documents and state secrets.
- graemep 9mo agoA number of Trump's cabinet advisors have strong backgrounds in finance. At least two former hedge fund managers and one VC that I know of in prominent positions and I do not know much about American politics.
- edmundsauto 9mo agoIs this confirmed by a trustworthy source? This article only reports on what president Trump stated. Given the source and the lack of any details, this isn’t verifiable which I think is a minimum requirement.