• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    28 days ago

    Per the article, it’s not confirmed whether it was at his direction or the broker acting on his behalf. Normally they just throw a bunch of money into an amount and say “here, invest it”, and it goes into stuff like ETFs and mutual funds like the one in question here, not individual stocks.

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      28 days ago

      well yes, but “buy all US defense stocks” is free money, anyone who remotely pays attention to the US political landscape knows exactly what republicans do literally every time they’re in power