The member of the House of Representatives reported having bought the shares of several Tech companies on April 8 and 9, including Apple and Amazon, or the pharmaceutical giant Merck, for a total amount between 21,000 and 315,000 dollars. Elected officials are not required to declare exact sums, but only forks.
The elected Trumpist of the State of Georgia, one of the most demonstrative supporters of the American president, also sold at the same time for between 50,000 and 100,000 dollars of American treasury vouchers, according to the document she transmitted to the congress, initially published by the New York Times.
Initiate offense
After having triggered a world trade war and shaken the markets, Donald Trump had written on April 9 on his Truthsocial platform, a few minutes after the opening of Wall Street, “it’s time to buy”. A few hours later, he announced a suspension for 90 days of additional customs duties against dozens of countries, with the exception of China, causing a historic stock rebound.
Enough to fuel suspicions of initiate of the democratic opposition, which asked an investigation to the American stock market gendarme on Friday, the secure (Securities and Exchange Commission). Six Democratic senators called the latter in a letter to “determine if customs announcements have enriched relatives and friends from the administration at the expense of the American public”.
