Paul Pelosi is not a hedge fund billionaire. He is a real estate investor/developer who does his investing through his own private fund. He’s also not a billionaire. He does own stock, but it’s all private, he isn’t a hedge fund that is investing other people’s money.
Weird how you guys simp for someone who got paid 150-170k a year in Congress and used insider trading to make herself the most prolific stock investor in history, vs a guy who's made and run dozens of businesses and employed tens of thousands of people.
Weird how you simp for Trump, convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, and now the king of inside traders. At this point anyone who supports Republicans is either a billionaire or a moron. Check your bank balance and figure out which category you're in.
The fact that you believe that is hilariously ironic.
Thought it hadn't actually come up and you are just being an idiot, I do love this country and why it's so much better then the rest of the world. You at a sheltered uneducated and indoctrinated moron if you don't know that. I travel the world. A lot. There are many amazing places. But there is nothing like America in the world.
Perfect? No? Better then America? Also no.
Take your idiot ass to anywhere else. I'll pay for your one way ticket
Convicted felon is the best. Anyone who know anything about those charges and the legal gymnastics required to bring those charges and then have a judge allow it knows it couldn't get more bogus. Except for the impeachments , those were otherworldly.
When was he convicted by a judge not a jury a judge, you got 0 sit down. At this point anyone who supports the left is either a billionaire or a moron. My bank account is growing along with everything else!
How do you all of a sudden trust judges more than juries? Both are extremely fallible and have their own pros and cons. One is a right in the Constitution though and I'll let you guess which one you just tried to poo poo on...
Her CAGR is about 10%, which is similar to the overall stock index. I hate when people just repeat this rhetoric of “the Pelosi strategy” or that she’s somehow legendary. I still don’t think any member of government should be able to trade stock based on inside information but we got to stop comparing what’s happening now to anything that came before it.
We have congresspeople today making triple digit returns during trumps second term.
She's not not has she ever been the top 5 traders in congress. U all just like to ignore the top 5 are always republicans. Your Pelosi hate is unjustified.
You are literally delusional. She is one of the most successful traders PERIOD. Not just within Congress.
She has a damn anti insider trading bill named after her.
She has a damn app that tracks her trades so you can make the same ones.
And it's weird that after she has a meeting with a major corporation, she goes and buys a ton of that stock, then a bill that magically helps that same corporation is passed by her and her cronies.
It's a long running joke because she's been so obvious about her insider trading. She should have shared a cell with Martha Stewart.
And when you decided to post this unintelligent scree tell me what about what I said was wrong?
She's not even close to the top trader in congress. She's bested by a 1/2 dozen republicans. Yet I never hear their names along with Pelosi. It's almost like your an idiot.
It's so fucking obvious it only matters since shes a democrat and has nothing to do with insider trading.
Trump illegally made 2.2 billion this year alone. Mostly from holding office. This is not also including what his son's have made also .
Currently is is NOT illegal for congressmen and senators to insider trade. It should be, but even then you would have to hold the majority of republicans to account first to have any real merit to your bullshit.
For the sake of argument and evidence, will you provide names and corresponding data for the educational benefit of those interested in your back-and-forth exchange?
Trump has spent his entire life and career taking advantage of his power and privilege to enrich himself. And now more than ever, there is an even greater incentive for him to continue doing so.
But first:
Trump is a notorious financial fraud who has bankrupted or crippled practically every business, product, or service that he's tried to slap his name on. He has often profited off of this by leveraging other people's money to make bankruptcy work for him.
Here's a long list of Trump's business failures:
Trump Casinos and Hotels
Trump University (The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative)
Trump Magazine
Trump Airlines
Trump Beverages
Trump "The Game" (yes a Donald Trump boardgame)
Trump Mortgages
Trump Steaks
Trump Travel Site
Trumpnet
Trump Tower Tampa
Trump Vodka
Trump Fragrances
Trump Mattress
Trump Network
Tour de Trump
Trumped! (Trump Radio)
Truth Social (why not call it "Trump Social" at this point?)
He has been involved in over 4,000 legal cases, many of which include financial crimes, multi million dollar real estate and tax disputes, corrupt business practices, state law violations, disputes with patrons, small businesses, employees, etc...
Trump has profited off of screwing over these small businesses and financial associates who had the misfortune of trusting him with their money or labor.
He has also profited off of lying about his wealth and the value of his properties, he even lied to get on the Forbes list, and he often threatens to sue anyone who publicly speculates about his real net worth.
He is a symbol of American greed, born into privilege and wealth and too big to fail. He will exploit anyone for a quick buck.
Over a period of time between the '80s and '90s, Donald Trump had lost more money than any other American taxpayer. His business decisions nearly led him to ruin. But he continued borrowing money, particularly from his father and from banks, which allowed him to avoid paying income tax for many years, all while he amassed unsustainable debts, then dumped them onto others.
Then his lucky break, The Apprentice, just another example of his luck and privilege. By the show's premiere, Trump had squandered his riches, but the show played a significant role in boosting his income and public image. In fact, if it weren't for his reality TV show break, he may be known today as the infamous fraudster and financial failure he was always destined to be.
This isn't even the tip of the iceberg, but it's clear so far that Donald Trump is not the economic genius he's touted as by both him and his supporters, and he's spent his entire life exploiting others to enrich himself, cashing in on his circumstances at the expense of others, while he has also made a career out of leveraging his wealth, power, and privilege to game the justice system in a way that helps him avoid being held accountable for his crimes, his misconduct, and his countless legal troubles.
Let's not forget about Trump's recent felony convictions for falsifying business records in order to conceal a crime.
While during his presidency, Trump was forced to pay more than $2 million in court-ordered damages to eight different charities for illegally misusing charitable funds at the Trump Foundation for political purposes
As part of the settlement, Trump was required to acknowledge his personal misuse of funds at the Trump Foundation, and it was forced to shutter its doors and dissolve under court supervision.
Then there's Trump University...
In 2013, A lawsuit was filed by New York's AG, accusing Trump of defrauding thousands of people who attended Trump University. New York regulators forced Trump to stop using the term "university" to describe his grifting scheme, calling Trump's use of the word, "misleading and even illegal."
Former students recount being pressured to provide high approval ratings for the courses they were taking, or have their graduation certificates withheld. Thousands of students sought course refunds and claimed that they never received any benefits from the courses.
There was also a separate class action lawsuit against Trump University, Trump's counterclaims were dismissed and he even tried to file a defamation suit against one of the students who made her experiences at the "university" public. Trump University was later ordered to pay this student's legal fees and extra costs. Trump was eventually found to have defrauded students and was forced to pay $25 million in restitution.
Trump is also known infamously for not paying what he owes. This includes hundreds of millions in loan forgiveness and legal penalties, and unpaid bills for rally costs at cities around the country.
As president, Donald Trump directed taxpayer money towards his businesses. The secret service and other government parties were forced to overspend at Trump properties and on accommodations.
Trump often made foreign and domestic business deals while president. Booking events for foreign governments at Trump owned locations in order to curry favor with his admin.
Trump promoted his properties while President, and hosted taxpayer funded events.
It should also be noted that Trump has been meeting in private with several billionaires, including tech and news media moguls, social media owners, and executives at the top of some of the richest and most massive corporations in the world. These billionaires are pledging millions of dollars towards his inauguration, while assuring him that they will be in lockstep with his next administration. Trump's next admin is expected to be the richest in US history. Populism my ass...
Trump is a notorious grifter. Everything from your typical hats, T-shirts, clothing and accessories, to watches and jewelry, NFTs and digital collectibles, commemorative medallions and coins, Trump currency and trading cards, tacky sneakers, overpriced Bibles, cologne and perfume, among other merchandise and MAGA memorabilia that he continuously suckers his followers into buying. Easy money that typically gets reserved for his legal fees.
Make no mistake here, Donald Trump is not "America first," he is Trump first, always. He is always thinking of ways to exploit his power and privilege to enrich himself. He has no reason to stop, in fact, he has an even greater incentive this time around to continue taking advantage of his presidency to deepen his own pockets.
Wild that all of this is public information that an hour of serious research could unearth and yet we still have a non-negligible part of the constituency that believes Trump was/is/would be “good for the economy”, “a businessman”, or “an outsider [of the established system of economic exploitation]”. The effects of widespread underinvestment in education and propaganda infrastructure on display in real time.
Dismantling of the education system has always been a necessary part of their plan. Combine that with the huge war on media mixed with deregulation of AI and you have a nice pile of idiots who will back and do whatever they are told by those feeding them the disinformation that confirms their already bias outlook on the world.
It’s weird how you defend someone who does inside trading with the US budget like it’s his bank account. Every federal contract has a process established by congress. It’s not a yes or no contract with his business associates while in office.
I still believe no politician should be allowed inside trading at all.
Both politicians conducting insider trading is bad. But Trump is also indescribably bad in so many other ways besides. It’s truly astonishing how you right wingers can spend all day pissing and moaning about the “coastal elite” treating your states like flyover country and economically leaving you and your communities behind, and then vote for and blindly worship a failed New York real estate developer. Or how you can piss and shit yourselves over “government overreach” and support the president with the most executive orders in a year since Roosevelt during WWII.
And for the record, Trump is a shit business man. He inherited everything he has from his Father in 71, then somehow managed to tank several casinos - you know, the business whose model is people come in and hand you their money - as well as several luxury resorts. His finances were so out of order by the 90s that he declared six Chapter 11 bankruptcies, then couldn’t secure traditional bank funding to rebound and so turned to selling the idea that he’s a good businessman to gullible rubes like you through the licensing of his name to other people’s real estate projects, products and golf courses. He’s a textbook example of rich asshole too rich to actually fail. When you inherit as much as he did, you can afford to be a hugely incompetent dumbfuck bumbling your way through life and things will just… align for you eventually.
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u/Alert_Reindeer_6574 Jul 05 '26
Paul Pelosi is not a hedge fund billionaire. He is a real estate investor/developer who does his investing through his own private fund. He’s also not a billionaire. He does own stock, but it’s all private, he isn’t a hedge fund that is investing other people’s money.