benjipwns
Banned
Just to be clear, you guys do realize that basically every major member of Congress has the same conflicts of interest as are being suggested for Trump here and it's actually legal for them to trade on insider information based on legislation and intelligence right? (Unlike Trump. Or Clinton. Until they get caught.)
Mark Warner isn't worth $200 million because he was a really good lawyer once. (He's never practiced law in fact.) He owns a massive share of Russia's largest search engine, which is a competitor to Google among other things. (And whose billionaire owners certainly wouldn't have any ties to the Putinstate, never, no billionaires in Russia would have anything to do with Putin, ever, it's just not a thing in their culture. The culture of a flowering democracy which will be shown in their upcoming Duma elections.)
Nancy Pelosi and her husband are constantly trading on insider information, most famously when she moved credit card legislation onto the House floor after buying thousands of shares of Visa, then immediately selling it after a 50% jump in the stock price before killing the legislation which sent the stock plummeting back down.
I use two Democratic examples because they are the ones I remember details of. But John Boehner did the same exact thing as Pelosi with other stocks I just don't remember the details.
A whole shitload of Congresspeople have their wives and families owning businesses that they just later happen to be involved in key legislation over. (Usually, it's money they married into...like John Kerry and Michael McCaul.)
Chris Dodd, to use another Democratic example for consistencies sake, is arguably the most shameless and amazing example of this. And it's hilarious that it only ever became an issue for him right when he decided to "retire" and immediately become the head of the MPAA.
Mark Warner isn't worth $200 million because he was a really good lawyer once. (He's never practiced law in fact.) He owns a massive share of Russia's largest search engine, which is a competitor to Google among other things. (And whose billionaire owners certainly wouldn't have any ties to the Putinstate, never, no billionaires in Russia would have anything to do with Putin, ever, it's just not a thing in their culture. The culture of a flowering democracy which will be shown in their upcoming Duma elections.)
Nancy Pelosi and her husband are constantly trading on insider information, most famously when she moved credit card legislation onto the House floor after buying thousands of shares of Visa, then immediately selling it after a 50% jump in the stock price before killing the legislation which sent the stock plummeting back down.
I use two Democratic examples because they are the ones I remember details of. But John Boehner did the same exact thing as Pelosi with other stocks I just don't remember the details.
A whole shitload of Congresspeople have their wives and families owning businesses that they just later happen to be involved in key legislation over. (Usually, it's money they married into...like John Kerry and Michael McCaul.)
Chris Dodd, to use another Democratic example for consistencies sake, is arguably the most shameless and amazing example of this. And it's hilarious that it only ever became an issue for him right when he decided to "retire" and immediately become the head of the MPAA.
