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J. D. Vance: “The President is not only buying and selling individual…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Vice President JD Vance Briefs Members of the Media, May 19, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 50:07

Trading individual stocks is something that you said that public officials should not be able to do when you ran for Senate all those years ago. And yet the President, who arguably has access to more non public information than your average senator, The President is not only buying and selling individual stocks either through his, through his trust. Okay, what's the question? The question is. The question, sir, is how can you and your administration argue to Americans that you're cleaning up corruption, you're preventing fraud, you're fighting … (50:07–50:21)

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