The Special Forces Soldier Goes to Prison. Donald Trump Jr. Goes to the Bank. Same Betting Scandal. Different Last Name.
Note from The Wise Wolf: This isn’t a Democrat versus Republican story no matter how badly both sides want it to be. Nancy Pelosi has been caught so many times trading stocks in sectors she directly regulates that financial Twitter built an entire cottage industry around copying her portfolio, and her returns consistently beat the market in ways that would be statistically improbable for someone who wasn’t getting a little extra information with her morning briefing. The machine that lets Donald Trump Jr. profit from wars his father starts is the same machine that let Pelosi’s husband buy semiconductor stocks weeks before a semiconductor subsidy bill she helped pass landed on the president’s desk. The soldier in this story didn’t lose because he was on the wrong side of a political argument. He lost because he isn’t in the club, and the club has no party affiliation,…
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