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President Donald Trump is facing heated criticism for engaging in over 3,600 stock trades during the first quarter of 2026 \u2014 but a powerful senator is arguing that Trump\u2019s actions are merely an egregious symptom of a much more systemic problem.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOver 80 percent of Americans believe that their elected officials are engaged in some type of corruption, and over 80 percent want to see bans on stock trading \u2014 not just in Congress, but across the country,\u201d Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) told The Bulwark\u2019s John Avlon in an interview that dropped on Sunday. The interview was featured in an article with the headline, “Sen. Andy Kim Exposes Congress\u2019 Dirty Secret.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just went to China. He brought 17 CEOs with him. [Fifteen] of those companies had CEOs with him. He is invested in their companies. He has stock in those companies. We have seen him take on Palantir stock. I helped pass one of those pieces. So we’re really showing the magnitude of what President Trump is doing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Avlon pointed out that Trump\u2019s trading amounts to $700 million, more than all of Congress combined, Kim argued that Trump\u2019s actions are part of a larger pattern of politicians making money despite their conflicts of interest. Yet Trump, he added, has taken things to the next level.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way I frame it is: if you have a job whose job description is in the Constitution of the United States \u2014 whether that means you’re a president or a vice president, a member of Congress, a Supreme Court justice, cabinet officials, senior officials across these three branches \u2014 you should be held to the highest of standards,\u201d Kim told Avlon. \u201cThere should be no doubt about whether or not you are taking action that is going to benefit the country or benefit your own bank account and stock portfolio. That’s what is causing so much distrust right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

If there is any silver lining to the current scandal, Kim added, it is that it creates an incentive for Americans to push for legislation reforming the status quo.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think that there is momentum towards banning members of Congress from trading stocks \u2014 that’s a sea change from when a few of us started down this path back in 2019, when a number of us were elected into Congress, many of us elected because of our anti-corruption platforms,\u201d Kim wrote. \u201cEven the president, in his State of the Union, talked about banning members of Congress from trading stocks \u2014 but not for him. So that’s the problem, right? We may very well end up getting some more momentum on banning members of Congress, but without it applying to the president. We’ve heard about Hegseth and others and some potential actions that they’ve taken. This is the absolute right time for us to be able to move forward and say, we need something across all three branches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim added that he and his fellow Senate Democrats \u201care already drawing up the lists, as well as the understanding of what investigations need to be done\u201d to learn more about Trump\u2019s stock trades and other financial scandals, including the $1.8 billion slush fund for his political supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is it that we can do with subpoena power?\u201d Kim asked. \u201cWhat documents, what people do we want to come before us? And the prioritization of that is going to be so important \u2014 both for bringing to light the documents that are necessary to show the paper trail of the crimes that are being committed now, and for setting the stage for accountability on as many different platforms as we can moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim has been one of the most outspoken members of Congress in terms of opposing Trump\u2019s agenda. In December, for example, he vociferously spoke out against Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts despite him lacking the legal authorization to do so.<\/p>\n

“If that\u2019s correct, this needs to stop as it\u2019s illegal to change without Congress,” Kim warned.<\/p>\n

Read more When the wealthiest people on Earth finally get the world they\u2019ve always wanted<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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