{"id":4164,"date":"2026-05-29T22:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/05\/29\/google-insider-trading-probe-appears-to-expose-washington-double-standards-video\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:40:26","slug":"google-insider-trading-probe-appears-to-expose-washington-double-standards-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=4164","title":{"rendered":"Google insider trading probe appears to expose Washington double standards (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Donald Trump\u2019s financial disclosures show that he made up to $750 million on trading in the first three months of 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Justice Department on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/google-employee-charged-insider-trading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">charged<\/a> Google employee Michele Spagnuolo with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after he used confidential corporate information to collect more than $1.2 million from bets on online prediction platform Polymarket.<\/p>\n<p>However, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT\u2019s Caleb Maupin reports.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWashington says that insider trading is illegal. You can\u2019t have special information, and then get rich on Wall Street betting on it. That is, unless you\u2019re the president of the United States,\u201d<\/em> Maupin says.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThen you can negotiate, start a war, appoint somebody, call for more military spending, negotiate the Strait of Hormuz to be opened or closed, and know what you\u2019re going to do before you do it and make bets and make lots of money.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.05\/thumbnail\/69fda2e785f5404049177a7c.png\" alt=\"X \/ @KobeissiLetter\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/639563-insider-trading-us-iran-deal\/\">Oil trader pockets reported $125 mn on suspiciously well-timed Iran bet \u2013 media<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Donald Trump made between $211 million to $750 million from securities trading in the first quarter of 2026, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/extapps2.oge.gov\/201\/Presiden.nsf\/PAS+Index\/405E4EC4E27BE8D185258DF7002DD1C0\/%24FILE\/Trump%2C%20Donald%20J.-05.08.2026-278T(2).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">financial<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/extapps2.oge.gov\/201\/Presiden.nsf\/PAS+Index\/5326D3AF5BE7C25385258DF7002DD1B7\/%24FILE\/Trump%2C%20Donald%20J.-05.08.2026-278T.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disclosures <\/a>published by the US Office of Government Ethics earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The filings list the transactions in broad ranges rather than exact amounts, and include securities linked to corporate titans such as Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, and Boeing.<\/p>\n<p>While US government regulators assure Americans that they\u2019re maintaining checks and balances, this seems to mean <em>\u201cfairness and order for average Joes or Google engineers, but not for everybody else,\u201d<\/em> Maupin says.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full RT report below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s financial disclosures show that he made up to $750 million on trading in the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}