Overview
- Rachel Maddow used her show to walk through President Trump’s recent financial disclosure and alleged that his stock trades lined up with his public actions.
- She cited chip buys in Nvidia and AMD that she said were followed about a week later by Commerce Department approvals for those firms to sell into China.
- She pointed to a multimillion-dollar purchase of Dell shares that preceded a rally moment when Trump told the crowd to buy a Dell computer.
- She highlighted seven Palantir purchases that came before Trump praised the company on Truth Social and posted its ticker symbol.
- Maddow’s segment also listed trades in Eli Lilly, Thermo Fisher, Apple, and Micron, framing the overall activity—described as hundreds of millions of dollars—as an ethics concern.