They are illegal, but laws are only worth the paper they’re written on if you’re willing to enforce them.
Remember when repubs made President Carter give up his peanut farm?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
It should be illegal… for Democrats , but this is proof of how extra special smart that Trump is
MAGA logic ( as if they will ever come in contact with this story )
If congress and senate can do it, of course the President can do it.
(and let’s remember, they all get the best healthcare on Earth, and never have to pay for anything or do anything, and they only work a few months a year on top of that; the rest of the time they’re being wined and dined by lobbyists)
This is as smart as he’s ever felt about himself.
1,156? I thought the orange shitstain traded over 3,000 times.
Our nation’s motto should be “what are you going to do about it?”
Once again, many comments that didn’t read the article.
US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has previously sounded the alarm over Trump’s “unprecedented” trading, said on Tuesday that “it should be illegal for the president to trade individual stocks—period.”
As it is not, he has to send a 45 day notice that he doesn’t do, which is illegal.
It IS illegal. The law is only the law in so far as it is enforcible.
Yeah that is illegal. The rule of law is meaningless in this country though.
It is illegal, always was.
If he can get away with rape, he can get away with this. America has lost it’s spine.
The US never had a spine. The rich were always allowed to do this crap.
Show me ONE point in history where the rich and powerful were held accountable in the US.
We could stop handing them over so much money
At one point we taxed them a lot more…
It’s all I’ve got.
Yup. Then they started influencing politics more and more, got those taxes reduced, all the social programs halted, and now what you got is a shitty system that churns out factory workers the rich don’t even need anymore.
That’s really all you need, and all it takes.
Fdr
Not only rape, but child rape.
It is illegal. The insider trading laws should be enforced. Presidential immunity does not apply to stock trading. Hopefully we will at some point get a normal government again and some of the ill-gotten gains can be clawed back.
It should be illegal is his middle name at this point.
“Insider Trading” is illegal, just never enforced.
IDK whether what Trump is doing meets the definition of “insider” trading because the law is intended to prevent CEO’s and managers trading on the strength of pre-release financial information.
However, like a great many of the behaviors of this administration, no one ever really thought of making it illegal in the past for two reasons. Firstly presidents have always had respect for the office, some less so than others but they were all somehow aware of their duty to fit and proper conduct. Secondly everyone assumed that if a president were to very unashamedly enrich themselves through the office, they would be removed from office.
Narrator: sadly however, the people of America were mistaken
