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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency (www.bbc.com)

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[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wow.

Investigative Journalism is just out there sweating spinal fluid in its efforts to piece together the clues on this one...

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Next up: tackling uncertain allegations that the sky is blue.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The reason they are having trouble here is because they don’t want to rat out the friendly politicians in both republican and democrat leadership in the house and senate who have been doing this for decades.

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also need to avoid a libel lawsuit

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

Libel is way more difficult to prove than stating facts

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I half expect some dev at truth social just looks at draft/in-progress posts in the db before they go live.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

that's... not a bad idea...

if I didn't have a spine I would probably apply for a job there.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Suspicions? If they can get away with it, they’re doing it.