$2B crypto losses for investors
While Trump and insiders made roughly $2 billion from his meme coin, investors suffered approximately $2 billion in corresponding losses.
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Jobs Report Spin, Media Double Standards, and the Trump Enrichment Thesis
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Brett zeroes in on the media's complicity in normalizing Trump's economic failures, citing a New York Times headline that called the dismal June jobs report 'economy remains steady' — a framing that would have been unimaginable for a Biden-era miss of the same magnitude. Ben then reads Trump's own words from a New York Times interview: 'I found out that nobody cared' about mixing business and politics during his first term, which the hosts argue is the president essentially confessing that he now operates without any internal ethical restraint. Brett adds that the Supreme Court's immunity ruling has reinforced Trump's sense of untouchability. The conversation underscores how the media's failure to apply consistent standards is not just biased but actively dangerous, because it helps Trump normalize unprecedented conflicts of interest that would have ended any previous presidency.
21,000 stock trades in one year
Trump's financial disclosure showed over 21,000 total stock trades — more than 80 per day — raising serious insider trading concerns.
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