Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs

[Nevilledog]

https://www.propublica.org/article/pam-bondi-trump-media-stock-tariffs

Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares of Trump Media the same day that President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained Wednesday by ProPublica.

Trump Media, which runs the social media platform Truth Social, fell 13% in the following days, before rebounding.

Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference from the White House Rose Garden unveiling the tariffs came after the market closed on April 2. Bondi’s disclosure forms showing her Trump Media sales say the transactions were made on April 2 but do not disclose whether they occurred before or after the market closed.

Trades by government officials informed by nonpublic information learned through work could violate the law. But cases against government officials are legally challenging, and in recent years judges have largely narrowed what constitutes illegal insider trading.

It’s unclear from the public record whether Bondi as attorney general would have known in advance any nonpublic details about the tariffs Trump was announcing that day. Trump, of course, publicly announced his plans to institute dramatic tariffs during the election campaign. But during the first weeks of his term, the market seemed to assume his campaign promises were bluster.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. As long as she stays on the good side of Trump, she will make a fortune.

[brush]

2. Just open season insider trading and corruption in that admin.

And bribe taker Bondi, the efin AG for God's ske, takes full advantage. It was reported yesterday that she was collecting 100k a month from Qatar for consulting/lobbying fees, or some such.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Trump is running a crime syndicate.

He is stealing everything in sight and so are his mobsters.

The crimes we know about are just the tip of the iceberg.

[brush]

5. Exactly. And trump is probably get a cut of everyone elses mob 'earnings'.

[Irish_Dem]

7. The mob boss always gets a big cut of profits.

[rzemanfl]

4. I bet if she ever goes to prison for this,

no one will knit her a sweater the way one inmate did for Martha Stewart.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Someone should notify the attorney generals office

[Emile]

9. LOL +1

[Iamscrewed]

8. Insider trading

Again. Imagine that.

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. It's only a matter of time before VonSchitzInPants starts helping himself to the U.S. Treasury.

[republianmushroom]

11. Would something like this be called "insider trading" ?

[slightlv]

12. I see our government as being run basically as a Mob entity

with Trump, Stephen Miller, and Musk taking turns at cosplaying Mob Boss. This is absolutely the most corrupt government I've ever seen or read about. I mean, I've read some really horrifying stuff from some of the crappiest 3rd world countries, and we're not only right up there with them in both spirit and action, in most cases we're surpassing them in evil deeds. Blows my mind how quickly we got to base level evil.