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Public Citizen’s count of Trump’s canceled corporate cases holds up; its math and $3.1B figure do not

Verdicts: 5 Mostly True, 2 Mixed, 1 Unproven, 1 Misleading, 1 False

Trump’s agencies did drop cases and pardon companies, as Public Citizen says. But its totals don’t add up, and most of its $3.1 billion figure was cut by a judge under Biden.

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The Insider Trading Pattern: Who’s Making Billions Before Trump’s Announcements?

The DOJ is investigating $2.6 billion in suspicious oil futures trades placed minutes before Trump’s Iran announcements, cabinet officials dumped stocks days before tariff crashes, and the agencies…

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