Now that she’s been caught making a cool fortune off stock trades conducted since she became a member of Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is blaming her son for the trades which she claims she knew nothing about.
According to Newsweek, controversy over Greene’s trading in the stock market was sparked by a report posted Tuesday by a group that monitors the stock market.
Unusual Whales, a market analysis group, published a report on Tuesday showing the members of Congress who obtained the most profits trading in the stock market in 2023. “Like every year since 2020, U.S. politicians beat the market,” Unusual Whales wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“And many in Congress made unusually timed trades resulting in huge gains,” the group said, posting a graph showing “the top performers” of last year.
The controversial Georgia Republican showed up on the list from Unusual Whales, and it sounds like she’s done extremely well for herself.
Greene was one of the names in the group’s list, which included a total of 100 trading members of Congress. The Georgia Republican was placed along the middle of the list, with 18.6 percent of returns on her trading, according to Unusual Whales. The highest profits were gained by Democrat Brian Higgins of New York, with 238.9 percent of returns, followed by Republican Mark Green of Tennessee, with 122.2 percent.
But when Greene was asked about being on the list by Fox host Jesse Watters, she claimed she knew nothing about the trades.
“I actually asked my team about that today—why my name was on the list—because I don’t even own any stocks and I haven’t in all of 2023,” she said.
“As a matter of fact, we have to report everything, including children who are dependent of ours,” Greene added. “And I think what was reported was actually related to my son’s account that his father and I set up for him years ago.”
Greene’s willingness to lay blame on one of her kids set off a wave of mockery and disgust on Twitter/X.
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