CNBC's Jim Cramer struggles to explain Trump's suspicious stock trade
Source: Raw Story · Bias: Far Left
Summary
Financial analyst Jim Cramer became visibly flustered Monday on CNBC when discussing President Donald Trump's extensive stock-trading activity, spending 10 seconds mumbling incoherently before co-host David Faber reassured viewers there were no technical difficulties. Government Ethics Office disclosures revealed that Trump executed over 3,700 stock transactions in the first quarter of 2026, including more than 30 purchases exceeding $1 million each. Companies traded include Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, Meta, Boeing, and others whose executives accompanied Trump to China last week, as reported by the Financial Times. Journalist Judd Legum identified a pattern of insider trading on his Substack: Trump purchased Thermo Fisher shares the day he toured its facility, Apple shares the day he praised it as "a great company," and Micron shares before calling it "one of the hottest companies" on Fox News. And nine days after buying Dell shares, Trump urged audiences to "buy a Dell computer." Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) described the activity as "blatant and criminal insider trading" on X. “Even worse, Trump is personally profiting off of his illegal deportation dragnet. Since we know congressional Republicans will pretend like they never saw this and won’t do a thing, anyone involved in these trades should preserve their records for my investigation in January 2027.”Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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