Smoking guns in Trump's new financial disclosure: Trump publicly praised companies the same day he bought their stock

[highplainsdem]

From Judd Legum:

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2026-05-18T13:58:00.133Z

2. Primary source documents, videos, and all the reciepts:

— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2026-05-18T13:58:00.617Z

Judd's article at Popular Info

https://popular.info/p/the-smoking-guns-in-trumps-new-financial

has much more info about this. Concluding paragraphs:

Other Trump stock purchases appear well timed to take advantage of Trump administration policies. For example, NOTUS reported that Trump “purchased $500,000 to $1 million worth of Nvidia stock on January 6, a week before the Commerce Department officially approved the sale of some Nvidia chips to China.” Similarly, NOTUS found that Trump, on January 6, purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in AMD, another chip-maker that was approved to do business with China on January 13.

By law, Trump was required to report all of these trades within 45 days. He missed that deadline for many of his trades. As a result, Trump was fined $200.

[ImNotGod]

1. The SEC is about as worthless as a woodpecker with a rubber beak. nt

[dalton99a]

2. And as usual, there will be no consequences for the criminal because Roberts gave him immunity

[AZJonnie]

3. No doubt our intrepid "liberal" media will sanewash or totally ignore this damning accounting

of CLEARLY criminal behavior. After giving barrels of the proverbial ink to the potential nepotism involved in Hunter Biden's Burisma job just a few short years ago.

Assuming this is all accurate reporting from Legum (and his work is usually good), this literally should be on EVERY news program, and above-the-fold on ALL major newspapers.

But ... pffft. We all know THAT won't happen. Just "Trump being Trump", doncha know?

[tanyev]

4. He's draining the swamp, alright.

By redirecting it into his bottomless pit of greed and corruption.