Sunday, May 17, 2026
Is Trump Guilty Of Massively Corrupt Insider Trading?
It has been revealed that Donald Trump traded millions of dollars in stock in the first quarter of 2026 - many times in companies that he later affected by his actions or pronouncements. It has the stench of massive insider trading.
Here is how notus.org reports it:
President Donald Trump personally bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in technology companies and government contractors early this year, according to new government records.
The Trump administration directly regulates some of these companies and many of these trades coincided with favorable regulatory decisions.
Trump purchased $1 million to $5 million dollars worth of Nvidia stock on Feb. 10, only a week before Nvidia announced a major computer processing power deal with AI and social media giant Meta. Trump previously purchased $500,000 to $1 million worth of Nvidia stock on Jan. 6, a week before the Commerce Department officially approved the sale of some Nvidia chips to China. The Chinese AI market is a long-sought target for Nvidia since the federal government controls the sale of advanced AI chips to countries designated as foreign adversaries, such as China.
Nvidia, the most valuable company in the world, sells and designs advanced semiconductors that are necessary for the development of artificial intelligence. It is also a major government contractor. The company has become a popular investment among national politicians. . . .
Investigative news organization Sludge first reported Trump’s disclosures, which he filed May 14 with the Office of Government Ethics. The disclosure indicates Trump made more than 3,600 individual stock and other financial trades during the first three months of 2026. This represents a shift in Trump’s personal investing strategy, as he had largely avoided stocks and invested in corporate and municipal bonds during the first year of his second presidential term.
AMD, another AI semiconductor company, was also authorized by the Department of Commerce to sell their chips to Chinese customers on Jan. 13. Trump purchased $50,000 to $100,000 worth of AMD stock on Jan. 6. In all, Trump bought at least $740,000 in AMD stock last quarter.
While the Trump administration spent billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and mass deportation efforts, Trump also invested in companies that contracted with immigration enforcement agencies.
Chief among them: Palantir Technologies. Trump purchased at least $260,000 worth of Palantir stock during the first three months of 2026.
In January alone, Trump bought $65,000 to $150,000 of Palantir stock. In February, Trump sold between $1.1 million and roughly $5.3 million of his Palantir stock. In March, Trump’s Palantir stock purchases totaled between nearly $200,000 and $500,000.
In February, Palantir struck a billion-dollar agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to use the company’s software in the president’s deportation surge. Palantir also has a contract surpassing a billion dollars with the Pentagon to develop AI systems that help orchestrate attacks.
On Feb. 10, Trump also purchased $1 million to $5 million in shares of Axon, the company that makes Tasers.
Trump bought more Axon stock — valued between $15,000 to $50,000 — on March 2, and also made a pair of sales each worth $1,001 to $15,000 around the same time.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement outlined its plan to spend $220 million on Tasersover five years on Feb. 24, NOTUS first reported. The agency stated it wanted to purchase about 17,800 new Tasers in what would be a major boon for Axon.
ICE spent $2.2 million in January on body cameras from the Arizona-based company.
Trump also spent millions of dollars on shares of other government contractors, including Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon and Alphabet, the parent company of Google.
Trump also traded stock in several companies led by executives who are traveling with the president on his trip this week to China. Among them: Apple, Meta, GE Aerospace, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Blackrock.
Saturday, May 16, 2026
About Half Of Voters Say Congress Should Reflect The Country's Racial Make-Up
The chart above is from the Change Research Poll -- done between May 5th and 10th of a nationwide sample of 2,244 registered voters.
Voters Oppose Both Taxpayer and Private Funding for Trump’s White House Ballroom
The charts above are from the Change Research Poll -- done between May 5th and 10th of a nationwide sample of 2,244 registered voters.
Trump Wants $1.7 Billion Of Taxpayer Money To Pay Jan. 6th Criminals And Other Trump Allies
It looks like a judge might toss out Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. To avoid that, Trump is now negotiating with the DOJ (which he controls) to reach a settlement. His terms are ridiculous. He's demanding an apology from the IRS, and promises to drop all audits of himself, his family, and his businesses. He also wants a $1.7 billion slush fund (of taxpayer money) to pay off the January 6th criminals and other Trump allies.
Donald Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The commission overseeing the compensation fund would have the total authority to hand out approximately $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by the Biden administration's "weaponization" of the legal system, including the nearly 1,600 individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack as well as potentially entities associated with President Trump himself. . . .
In addition to a public apology from the IRS, the compensation fund is believed to be the main condition for Trump to drop a series of legal actions he filed against the federal government, including the $10 billion lawsuit related to the 2019 leak of his tax returns as well as $230 million in legal claims related to the 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and the Russia collusion investigation he faced during his first term in office, sources familiar with the ongoing deliberations said.
The settlement terms are expected to prohibit Trump from directly receiving payments related to those three legal claims; however, entities associated with Trump are not explicitly barred from filing additional claims, sources said. . . .
he proposed fund -- which could face significant legal hurdles -- would draw money from the Treasury Department's Judgment Fund, a permanent appropriation used by the federal government to pay court judgments and settlements, sources said.
The arrangement would be an unprecedented use of taxpayer dollars with little oversight. Under the terms of the potential settlement agreement, President Trump would have the authority to remove members of the commission running the fund without cause, and the commission would be under no obligation to disclose its procedures or decision-making process for awarding more than a billion dollars, the sources said.
The proposed creation of the compensation fund has led some administration officials to raise ethical concerns about the arrangement -- stemming not only from Trump suing his own government but also having control of an entity that can freely hand out $1.7 billion to his allies. . . .
Trump's proposed commission is expected to be composed of five members who would issue monetary awards based on a majority vote, and the process for awarding money and the identities of the recipient could be kept private, according to sources.
Friday, May 15, 2026
More Americans Think A.I. Will Have A Negative Effect Than Think It Will Be Positive
The charts above are from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center Poll -- done between February 17th and March 20th of a nationwide sample of 1,330 U.S. citizens, with a 3.5 point margin of error.
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