Booker: Congress Should Hold Hearings on Insider Trading During Trump Tariffs

Booker: Congress Should Hold Hearings on Insider Trading During Trump Tariffs


Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there was “enough of an offense” to trigger congressional hearings questioning whether anyone traded improperly after President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements.

Host Kristen Welker said, “Some of your Democratic colleagues are actually calling for an investigation into whether or not there was insider trading. The president saying it’s a good time to buy and then, of course, hitting the pause button on some of those tariffs. Do you believe that democrats have any real evidence that anyone in the administration profited off of the president’s policies and announcements, or is this just a fishing expedition?”

Booker said, “Here’s the thing with Donald Trump and congressional Republicans: our whole system was designed to have checks

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