This administration highlights why the pardon provisions of the constitution need amendment.
Stock market at all time highs
Miami houses selling north of $150,000,000.00
No one cares about that crisis anymore
The markets keep ripping no matter what
Just some hiccups along the way
We got rid of it last year.
Otherwise how could you stop it? It’s not like when you work at big co and you just stop trading their stock. You get access to information that clearly will be material potentially months in advance.
2021 was exactly like India - Trump was going to go to prison for overestimating the floorspace of a building in New York to get a loan, which is apparently very commonplace and did not concern the bank.
The second one has made an even stronger case for doing so though.
I suspect even of Republicans voting in the lines today, they don't like him or his behavior but are too self-interested to do anything about it. When a new administration comes in, between Republicans happy to avoid a Democrat or one of their own have that power again, and Democrats ready to ensure another Trump can never happen again, we'll have bipartisan support for crippling presidential power.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-or...
Looks like it really started under Teddy Roosevelt. Obama's 276 is lower than most of his predecessors.
Those should fix most of the problems with time.
1) Publicly fund political campaigns.
2) Make private political contributions illegal bribery.
It's one thing to observe something is off statistically, and it's quite another to prove that off thing actually happens based on that statistics.
Trump set a stratosphereic high bar for examples par excellence, I doubt all of Pelosi's husband trades add up to a signifigant fraction of Trump's crypto gains alone.
More to the point, this is simple what-about-ism to avoid facing up to corruption in the US government and the poressing need (for many decades now) to take effective action.
As it stands, the emoluments clause and the impeachment wrist slapping make the US a standing joke for poor definition of problem and inability to punish.
Eg, an inability to enforce anti corruption at state and federal levels and a weak ineffectual process of bringing heels to boot.
So it's worthwhile to note that both major political parties believe this is acceptable.
Both Trump and Pelosi and all of congress doing insider trading all shows the complete corruption in US politics in the open.
It's just that one of them is better at hiding it.
I mean Pelosi has a higher rate of success as a stock picker than Warren Buffet.
> That line of argument isn’t new
Why are points raised previously invalid?
> and is often associated with pro-Kremlin narratives
I could write "pro-Kremlin narratives are associated with the Russiagate hoax" but that would be childish.
This and the title are journalistic malpractice. This is an article designed to report on obvious insider trading, and the writer clearly knows and agrees that it's obvious, but goes out of their way to throw in concessions and a build a veil of neutrality. You are legally allowed to accuse public officials of crimes. You do not have to gesture at "looming suspicions." A neutral reporting of the facts would make such an accusation, and tie it into the broader pattern of criminality. But it's more important to perform neutrality than to be honest, so we get this garbage. "Mr President, would you please comment on the allegations that-" "Shut up, piggie."
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