The amount of self-enriching corruption by Drumpf will eventually be revealed to be the worst and most egregious on record in the history of this country without exception:
Link: ‘A huge problem’: Trump has traded more stocks than all of Congress combined. A Bush-era ethics lawyer explains why you should worry
"President Donald Trump has made more securities trades since returning to office than every member of Congress combined.
According to a Bloomberg analysis published this week, he has made roughly 28,700 in 17 months, or about 80 trades every market day.
It's a new habit of Trump's. In his first term, Trump's financial disclosures consisted mostly of his real estate and privately held businesses.
For his second term, the periodic reports he filed through early 2026 showed an account buying municipal and corporate bonds—more than $100 million by August 2025 and more than $337 million in all—along with bank preferred securities and bond ETFs.
The stock trading surfaced in May of this year, when a first-quarter filing listed roughly 3,600 transactions in 90 days. Then the annual disclosure, released June 30 at nearly a thousand pages, showed more than 21,000 trades in 2025, worth between $600 million and $1.86 billion, at 85 per market day. Trump lists eight separate investment accounts but doesn't give any indication of which institutions manage them.
"I believe that that is a huge problem," Richard Painter, who served as chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush and now teaches securities law at the University of Minnesota, told Fortune. "I've gone through every president. I don't think we've had any president trade in the stock market.""
What makes this activity all the more suspicious is that Drumpf and his protectors refuse to provide any details on which company is supposedly managing Drumpf's shady stock portfolios:
"In May, after the stock trades appeared, White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fortune the assets are held in a trust managed by the president's children.
Eric Trump posted that any suggestion a family member was buying individual stocks "would be a lie and blatantly false."
"There's a financial conflict of interest if he has an ownership interest in the account," Painter said. "It doesn't matter who manages it."
In a statement, the White House's Ingle told Fortune that third-party financial institutions independently manage the portfolio through "computer-based model portfolios that automatically replicate recognized indexes, such as the Schwab 1000."
He did not answer questions about which institutions manage the portfolio or why the White House described a family trust in May. "There are no conflicts of interest," the statement said."
Lol. Fucking hilarious.
I have to laugh because of just how openly dirty it all is, and because of how it is being gotten away with now that the nation's top law enforcement official is mob boss DonOld's loyal consigliere.
Seriously though, in no reality-based world that I am cognizant of would the kind of brazen corruption that Drumpf and his family and "friends" are immersed in ever . . EVER . . have been tolerated had it been being done by a Democratic, or even another Republican POTUS for that matter. Ever!
Think of how the reporting on this story played out for a moment.
First, one of Drumpf's White House spokesperson quislings (perhaps inadvertently) reveals to the 'Fortune' reporter that Drumpf's prolifically-traded stock assets (85 trades PER DAY to the tune of $1.86 Billion) are being managed by his ne'er-do-well, grifting spawn - you know - these parasites:
Then one of those spawn, Eric 'The Lesser' Drumpf, gets wind of the story, and vociferously objects to being fingered in his father's financial crimes and he issues a public denial of it, calling his father's White House spokesperson a 'liar.'
Eventually, they just end up giving some bullshit statement that the assets ($1.86 Billion) are being "independently" managed by some unknown, un-named "third-party" institution which purportedly uses a commonly used computer software program to manage stock portfolios.
Essentially what they are saying to everyone with that bogus response is, "there's nothing to see here folks, move along now - and mind your own fucking business while you're at it..."
Crooks. All of them.
---TFG
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