President Donald Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made up to $750 million on trading in the first three months of 2026
The US Justice Department on Wednesday charged Google employee Michele Spagnuolo with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after he used confidential corporate information to collect more than $1.2 million from bets on online prediction platform Polymarket.
However, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports.
“Washington says that insider trading is illegal. You can’t have special information, and then get rich on Wall Street betting on it. That is, unless you’re the president of the United States,” Maupin says.
“Then you can negotiate, start a war, appoint somebody, call for more military spending, negotiate the Strait of Hormuz to be opened or closed, and know what you’re going to do before you do it and make bets and make lots of money.”
President Donald Trump made between $211 million to $750 million from securities trading in the first quarter of 2026, according to financialdisclosures published by the US Office of Government Ethics earlier this month.
The filings list the transactions in broad ranges rather than exact amounts, and include securities linked to corporate titans such as Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, and Boeing.
While US government regulators assure Americans that they’re maintaining checks and balances, this seems to mean “fairness and order for average Joes or Google engineers, but not for everybody else,” Maupin says.
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Michele Spagnuolo has been pushing this agenda for a while now.
Basically however, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
The bigger issue here is the filings list the transactions in broad ranges rather than exact amounts, and include securities linked to corporate titans such as Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, and Boeing. That changes the calculation.
The fact that however, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports really puts things into perspective.
If the filings list the transactions in broad ranges rather than exact amounts, and include securities linked to corporate titans such as Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, and Boeing, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
The fact that the filings list the transactions in broad ranges rather than exact amounts, and include securities linked to corporate titans such as Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, and Boeing really puts things into perspective.
In other words however, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports. Curious to see how this develops.
On one hand however, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports. But at the same time “Washington says that insider trading is illegal.
Michele Spagnuolo has been pushing this agenda for a while now.
Wall Street has been pushing this agenda for a while now.
Basically however, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
The bigger issue here is the filings list the transactions in broad ranges rather than exact amounts, and include securities linked to corporate titans such as Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, and Boeing. That changes the calculation.
Considering “Washington says that insider trading is illegal, it raises some real questions about what happens next.
The fact that however, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports really puts things into perspective.
If the filings list the transactions in broad ranges rather than exact amounts, and include securities linked to corporate titans such as Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, and Boeing, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
Basically “Washington says that insider trading is illegal. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
In other words “Washington says that insider trading is illegal. Curious to see how this develops.
The fact that the filings list the transactions in broad ranges rather than exact amounts, and include securities linked to corporate titans such as Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, and Boeing really puts things into perspective.
If “Washington says that insider trading is illegal, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
In other words however, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports. Curious to see how this develops.
On one hand however, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports. But at the same time “Washington says that insider trading is illegal.
Michele Spagnuolo is in a tough spot here, curious how they navigate it.
So the bottom line is “Washington says that insider trading is illegal. Wonder how this will land.