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Trump Surfaces and Crashes Out at Presser
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21,000 Trades: The Chart That Tells the Real Story
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Meiselas introduces a chart comparing stock trades made by U.S. presidents since 1990. Every president before Trump barely registers — even Trump's first term shows some activity but nothing remarkable. The current term is in a category entirely its own: 21,000 trades across 8 investment accounts, averaging 80 per day. Trump is played again defending himself, claiming he has 'many people' managing a 'blind account' and that he never speaks to them. Meiselas then plays Trump calling the Qatar jet 'maybe the greatest commercial plane ever built' and noting the first flight will be to the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library opening. The juxtaposition — extraordinary personal enrichment alongside a foreign-gifted luxury jet — drives Meiselas's central argument about Trump's priorities.
Bill Pulte serves as acting Director of National Intelligence without passing a security background check or having prior national intelligence experience.
Trump told Bill Pulte, his acting DNI who has no security clearances and no national intelligence background, that he could 'declassify whatever you want.' The Senate has withheld FISA reauthorization partly because of Pulte's appointment.
