President Trump's August filing shows 517 trades, including up to $5 million of SpaceX notes bought two days before he signed a space-launch policy. It dates that bond buy but not who chose it, and a fixed 5.35% coupon limits what a launch policy can pay the holder.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 16%
- Operator
- Operator 24%
- Investor
- Investor 60%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence65
Ethics filings show Trump's managers sold up to $25 million each of Amazon and Microsoft in July
President Trump's outside managers sold $5 million to $25 million each of Amazon and Microsoft stock in July, ethics filings show. Those filings let anyone check the president's trading in big AI names month by month, but they leave the reason for any one sale to inference.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence45
Trump's ethics filing brackets 1,156 July trades inside a $191 million range
Donald Trump's accounts made 1,156 trades in July worth between $79 million and $270 million, according to Fortune's analysis of his ethics filing. Each trade is reported only as a band, and neither the federal conflict law nor the pending congressional trading ban covers the president.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives55
- Confidence58
Democrats price the CLARITY Act's missing seven votes at a divestment trigger
The procedural motion failed 49 to 50, and with only 53 Republicans in the chamber leadership needs seven votes from a Democratic caucus that supplied none. The negotiations broke down over a divestment trigger.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives68
- Confidence55
PublicSquare's 99% collapse shows political affinity is a marketing channel, not a moat
The NYSE has warned the conservative marketplace it faces delisting after roughly $160 million in cumulative losses, while Trump Jr. and allied firms drew consulting fees.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption9
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives78
- Confidence44