Posted on 12/06/2016 11:07:35 AM PST by ColdOne
President-elect Donald Trump sold all his shares in companies in June, his spokesman said Tuesday, a move that could have created a cash windfall as he ramped up to begin a costly general election presidential campaign that at the time he claimed he would personally support with “major contributions."
The sell-off could help address conflict-of-interest worries about his stock portfolio, a sizable part of Trump’s financial life that was worth roughly as much as $40 million as of December 2015, a May disclosure filing shows.
Trump’s stock portfolio, the May filing shows, included shares in
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somehow i doubt selling $40 million of stock represents a “sizable part of Trump’s financial life”.
The WP (see MSN web page) is trying to make this sound like a scandal.
Of course they are.....
“The WP (see MSN web page) is trying to make this sound like a scandal.”
The way I see it, this action removes some amount of conflict of interest that he may have as POTUS. Good move!
In terms of cash, probably yes. The company and the properties value alone far exceeds what he could readily spend. 40 million is likely just the cash part out of multiple billions of net worth.
Oh, no, what did he buy?!?
A cargo container of Depends for Hellary.
created a cash windfall as he ramped up to begin a costly general election presidential campaign
Trump has stated numerous times that he was not a stock person and that he was into real estate.
He said he had a “few dollars” in the market, now we know 40 million and wasn’t a lot. Trump claims to be worth 10 Billion, 40 million is not a lot of money to him. It was a small percentage of his wealth
MORE FAKE NEWS, is this from Breitbart? HEH HEH Liberals are EVIL, the MSM is Evil,
BREAKING 911.com come on people..HAHAHA
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