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EdmondDantes_

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3. Thanks to the STOCK act you can make a decent estimate
Wed May 27, 2026, 09:08 AM
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https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2025-11/Congressional%20Stock%20Trading%20by%20the%20Numbers%20-%20119th%20Congress.pdf

48% own individual stocks. 46% own shares in an investment fund, 1% have a blind trust (the number in the article is 2% but that math doesn't check out as it's 6 out of 535 so 1.1% and the rest don't own any stock. I don't have time at the moment to go down the list to determine the partisan breakdown of who owns individual stocks versus has investments in a 401k or the like that's widely spread. Overall it's 59% of Republicans and 41% of Democrats own some stock. And you'd have to do more digging to look into those who own individual stocks is it a long held investment, how much is it (owning a single share versus buying 3,000 shares at a convenient time), etc to determine if it's something that looks like insider trading.

I think Republicans aren't calling him out because they are afraid of losing primaries, and Democrats because there's an infinite number of things to call him out on, and for whatever reason, enriching himself has never really stuck to him probably because it's part of his brand. But I've seen Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim call him out on it. So it does happen. But my guess is the thought is stuff like the economy, ICE raids, the war in Iran all have more resonance with the public.

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