Ambassadors Sold Stock as Trump Downplayed Virus

“Several U.S. ambassadors actively shed their stock holdings as President Trump tried to downplay the coronavirus outbreak in its early stages,” CNBC reports.

“Ambassadors to Uruguay, France, Morocco and Italy sold shares in transactions that could have made them millions of dollars… Much of their sales were in January and continued throughout February, the records show. Their transactions line up with a timeline of federal and congressional announcements as the virus started sweeping across the globe earlier this year.”