“The boss of a defense manufacturing start-up backed by Donald Trump Jr’s investment firm donated almost $450,000 to Republican causes just months after winning a $900mn contract from the U.S. government,” the Financial Times reports.
House GOP Faces Complaint for Using Floor Footage
“Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), chair of the House Republicans’ campaign arm, is facing an ethics complaint for using footage of official House floor and committee action in campaign materials,” the Washington Post reports.
”Members of Congress are prohibited by House ethics rules from using recordings of official proceedings for campaign purposes, including footage by third-party sources such as news outlets.”
Trump Bought Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX in June
“President Donald Trump invested as much as U.S.$50,000 in Elon Musk’s SpaceX in June, according to a public financial disclosure, giving him a financial stake in a major government contractor run by his former adviser,” Reuters reports.
Lawmakers Push for Faster Ethics Committee Probes
“Democrats and Republicans are pressing the House Ethics Committee to move more quickly on investigations involving allegations of sexual misconduct or domestic abuse, as a string of high-profile cases and the looming midterms have renewed scrutiny of the secretive panel’s process,” NewsNation reports.
“Investigations into Reps. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Cory Mills (R-FL) and Max Miller (R-OH) — involving allegations of sexual harassment, dating violence or domestic abuse — have dominated headlines in recent weeks, prompting lawmakers to argue that the Ethics Committee needs to find a way to expedite such cases.”
Trump’s June Stock Trades Top 1,000
“President Donald Trump made more than 1,000 securities trades in June, including significant purchases of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Visa Inc. Mastercard Inc. and Cintas Corp. according to a financial disclosure published Saturday,” Bloomberg reports.
“The transactions totaled between $78.1 million and $263.1 million in the filing published by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, which shows a range for each transaction rather than exact numbers.”
Jimmy Gomez Accuser Says He Sexually Assaulted Her
“A woman has told the House Ethics Committee that Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez sexually harassed and assaulted her, her attorneys said in a statement on Wednesday,” CNN reports.
“The Ethics Committee announced Monday that it had opened an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Gomez, including ‘engaging in inappropriate sexual contact’ with a staffer, which would be a violation of House ethics rules.”
Cory Mills Loses GOP Primary
“Rep. Cory Mills was defeated by a Republican challenger Tuesday in a Florida primary that tested voters’ tolerance of several serious controversies the lawmaker faces, including claims involving sexual misconduct and domestic violence,” the Washington Post reports.
Ethics Panel Investigating Lawmaker for Sexual Misconduct
“The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) over allegations of sexual misconduct,” Axios reports.
“Gomez said in a statement that he’s made ‘personal mistakes outside my marriage,’ but said his actions were ‘consensual’ and did not violate the law or House Ethics rules.”
House Ethics Chair Violates the STOCK Act
“House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest, whose committee enforces compliance of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, violated the insider trading and transparency law,” NOTUS reports.
“Guest, a four-term Republican from Mississippi, was more than six months late disclosing three stock sales made by a family trust fund owned by his wife, Haley, involving shares of the oil giant Chevron, the lodging platform Airbnb and the cosmetics company e.l.f. Beauty.”
Is Congress Up for an Ethics Overhaul?
“A bipartisan House effort is underway to fundamentally change how sexual misconduct and other bad behavior on Capitol Hill is identified, investigated and eradicated,” Politico reports.
“But the widely-held goal of transforming the workplace culture of Congress could quickly run up against longstanding lawmaker resistance to tools necessary to police themselves, with some worried it will turn into another avenue for partisan mudslinging.”
BBC Asks to Authorize Subpoenas for Trump Family
“The BBC has asked a Florida court to subpoena members of President Trump’s family as part of the British public broadcaster’s legal defense against Mr. Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit,” CBS News reports.
“The BBC’s legal team asked the U.S District Court in the Southern District of Florida for ‘authorization to serve third parties Donald Trump, Jr. Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner,’ with subpoenas that would compel the three to provide testimony and documentation regarding events on Jan. 6, 2021, during the assault on the U.S. Capitol by the president’s supporters.”
Trump Family’s Firm Granted Bank Status
“A Trump-appointed bank regulator has given conditional approval for World Liberty Financial, a crypto business established by President Trump’s sons and the sons of special envoy Steve Witkoff, to become a bank,” CBS News reports.
Three More Congressmen Violated the STOCK Act
“Three more members of Congress have violated an insider trading and transparency law, making them the latest in a litany of lawmakers who’ve blown by a federally mandated deadline for publicly disclosing their personal financial investments,” NOTUS reports.
New York Times: Stock trading by lawmakers becomes a campaign attack line.
Trump Official Sought Aircraft for Fire Near His Property
“Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked agency staff last month to escalate the amount of aircraft at a seven-acre fire that had started near his mega-ranch in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest,” the Washington Post reports.
Trump’s White House Remodel Tab Keeps Growing
“The East Wing is gone, a new helipad is spreading across the lawn, and scaffolding wraps the White House’s front columns, but the price tags for President Trump’s renovations are far less obvious,” Axios reports.
“The muddled mix of funding streams — whether from private donors, the president himself or taxpayers — has fueled ethical questions about who’s footing the ever-rising bill for the HGTV-reminiscent White House redesign.”
Democrats Demand Trump Reveal Stock Managers
CNBC: “In a 17-page letter, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Robert Garcia of California asked Trump to reveal the money managers he says are in charge of all his investment decisions.”
“They also pressed him to disclose his involvement in or awareness of numerous individual stock trades that have raised concerns due to their potential overlap with government policy, or their proximity to market-moving statements made by Trump himself.”
Trump Is Personally Invested in Boosting Nuclear Industry
“President Donald Trump could stand to profit from his administration’s unprecedented investments into the nuclear energy industry,” NOTUS reports.
“Trump has invested between $6.4 million and $19.45 million in U.S. nuclear technology companies or utility companies that operate nuclear reactors… Trump’s holdings could reap significant gains as his administration seeks to rapidly expand the nuclear industry.”
Trump Sued Over Truth Social Advance Access Sale
“President Donald Trump was sued on Wednesday over the controversial sale of advance notifications of his posts on Truth Social,” CNBC reports.
“The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, notes that Trump’s posts on his own social media site often move financial markets.”
From the lawsuit: “‘President Donald Trump is charging $100,000 per month for advance access to his official government announcements on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. This scheme is extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional, and Plaintiffs bring this case to stop it.”
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