Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene owns shares of Trump’s declining media company and, when asked, would not say what happened to her shares.
NBC News reported:
When questioned by CNBC and NBC News, Greene would not say what happened to her shares in Digital World Acquisition Corp., which, through a merger with Trump Media and Technology Group, recently began trading on the stock exchange as DJT. The stock price is down at least 45% since the beginning of the month.
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Greene purchased shares of DWAC on October 22, 2021, just days after the merger was announced, for between $15,000 and $50,000, according to her official financial disclosure documents to Congress. DWAC stock opened trading that day at $118.80 and closed around $67.
Either Greene doesn’t want to admit that she still has the stock and is losing money on it, like all the other Trump investors, or she may have gotten some inside information as a congressman and cashed out before the stock fell off the market. cliff.
Congresswoman Greene probably doesn’t want to say it because the answer doesn’t look good for her or for Donald Trump. The idea that a current member of Congress is investing in the company of a former president/current party candidate is itself troubling.
The whole situation is an invitation to corruption and potential criminality.
As a public servant, Marjorie Taylor Greene must tell the truth and tell the American people where Trump’s actions stand.
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