Trump Bought SpaceX Bonds 48 Hours Before His Space Order
The president bought the bonds on a Monday. He signed the space memo on a Wednesday. And nobody outside the trading desk that handled the order will ever tell you whether those two days had anything to do with each other — which is, of course, precisely the problem. Donald Trump's August trading disclosure landed at the Office of Government Ethics on Thursday, and it is a monster: an 18-page periodic transaction report listing 517 trades — 289 purchases and 228 sales — executed between Aug 3 and Aug 31, worth somewhere between $74.3 million and $273.3 million by CNBC's analysis. The president signed it on Sept 17; the OGE received it on Sept 25. Federal law gives the president up to 45 days to report a trade, and then the government takes several more weeks to review and post it. That is how an August portfolio only becomes public in October — and how a trade can sit invisible while the stock it bought rockets 31 percent. Photo: President Donald Trump in his official second-...