President Donald Trump made nearly 30,000 stock trades since his return to office, marking a far higher volume of trades than all 535 members of Congress combined, a new Bloomberg analysis finds. Between his inauguration in January 2025 and the end of June, Trump and his team made nearly 28,700 trades, his financial disclosures show. That amounts to roughly 80 trades per market day for nearly…
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) caught Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth contradicting his own statement on Wednesday, over reports that his stockbroker tried to make an investment in a defense company weeks before the U.S. and Israel launched a war on Iran. During a line of questioning on insider trading related to the Department of Defense, Warren brought up a report by the…
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President Donald Trump claimed that his war on Iran is “very complete” just before markets closed on Monday, causing oil prices to calm — then contradicted himself a few hours later, promising to “not relent” as the U.S. and Israel carried out some of worst bombardments of the war all the while, locals said. In an interview with CBS on Monday afternoon, Trump said, “I think the war is very…
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Amid pressure from both Democrats and members of his own party, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (Louisiana) insisted he was in favor of stricter rules regarding insider trading in Congress, but stopped short of expressing support for an outright ban on stock trading for lawmakers. The statement from Johnson, reported on by Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman…
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