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The new administration assembled by President Donald Trump boasts a combined net worth of at least $11.8 billion. The collective wealth of the potential 2024 cabinet is unprecedented for The Cabinet of the United States. Senate confirmation hearings are currently underway in Washington, D.C. — and the potential conflicts of interest for these cabinet members are a fraught topic. We dived into the financial reports and investing strategies of this new administration to understand their financial backgrounds and what this could mean for potential conflicts of interest and insider trading while in office.

Findings

Crypto Enthusiasts

One finding is that President Trump's nominees are crypto enthusiasts. Data on the stock portfolios of Trump's cabinet nominees tells us that almost half of them have significant crypto holdings. Among the greatest is Sean Duffy, Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Transportation, who holds up to $1.1 million in Bitcoin.

Media Wealth

The second, and less startling finding is that the wealth of the nominees is disproportionately from roles in media. Nominated Secretary of the Department of Defense Pete Hegseth made over $4 million in the past two years as a FOX News Host, based on a recent Office of Government Ethics filing. Nominee Tulsi Gabbard earned over $1 million this year from book advances and speeches — most of which for the Republican Party.

Notable Members and Controversies

Robert F. Kennedy Jr — Health and Human Services Secretary (confirmed)

• Nominated in November for the position of health secretary

• Cleared the Senate by a razor‐thin 14–13 vote

• Net worth is about $15 million

• Controversial views scrutinizing the efficacy of vaccines

• Received backlash for ties to Wisner Baum, an LA-based personal injury law firm

• Holds a Bitcoin position worth over $5 million

• Opposition from the scientific and medical communities persists

Pete Hegseth — Secretary of Defense

• High-profile figure and Fox News co-host of "Fox and Friends"

• Received over $4.6 million from Fox News as an annual salary across the past two years

• Holds between $5,000 and $15,000 in Bitcoin income

• Controversies for financial mismanagement and accusations of sexual misconduct

Tulsi Gabbard — National Intelligence (nominated)

• Earnings in the past year have exceeded $1.2 million

• Passed the Senate committee vote last week, approving her nomination

• Main source of income: speaking fees and book royalties related to the Republican party

• Nearly $300,000 from an advance on her 2024 book "For Love of Country: Leave the Democratic Party Behind"

Pam Bondi — Attorney General (confirmed)

• Net worth of $18 million

• Worked with the Trump administration for several years

• Made more than $3 million from the recent merger of Trump's Truth Social platform

• Disclosed owning between $2 million and $10 million in shares of Trump Media & Technology Group stock

Scott Bessent — Secretary of the Treasury (confirmed)

• Net worth of at least $500 million

• Wealth originates from years in hedge fund management

• Holds over $50 million in ETFs and investments in major currencies

• Holds between $250,000 and $500,000 in Bitcoin

Linda McMahon — Secretary of Education (nominated)

• Estimated worth upwards of $3 billion

• Earnings from co-founding World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

• Holds significant investments in TKO Group Holdings and bonds supporting universities

Doug Burgum — Interior Secretary (confirmed)

• Earned over $2 million last year from businesses and investments

• Significant investments in technology stocks including Netflix, Alphabet, Apple, and Adobe

Sean Duffy — Secretary of Transportation (confirmed)

• Recently pledged to divest from investments in technology stocks

• Numerous investments in cryptocurrency, including up to $500,000 in Bitcoin

Howard Lutnick — Commerce Secretary (nominated)

• Net worth of $2 billion

• CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Group

• Holds over 800 separate positions across various companies

• Vocal supporter of cryptocurrency, particularly Tether

Where to Look Next

Public disclosure of funds allows us to examine the financial profiles for the new cabinet of the United States. Looking at the potential cabinet members holistically, it is apparent that they are united by holding large amounts of wealth. Some of this wealth, of course, will have to be divested if taking office. The Office of Government Ethics requires officials to divest from funds which may pose a conflict of interest — a move which many of Trump's nominees will see as costly.

!chuds !nonchuds discuss

It's so beautiful

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!neolibs wtf lol

Here's the text of one of the resignations, from a former clerk for Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts (conservative judges for the s reading)

I expect you will find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.

You can see another here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/read-acting-us-attorney-resignation-letter-doj-response/index.html

which is from a Federalist society member and Scalia clerk:

And to top it all off, 's Border Czar threatens to renew the charges if he doesn't cooperate with ICE (totally not corruption though):

they're going to make it a lot harder to register to vote, having failed to notice that THEY'RE the low-propensity voter party now and are leading in new registrations. married women who aren't already voters will be hit even harder, and that's one of the most 2025 republican party constituencies you can imagine. this would usher in total Elite Human Capital ascendancy.

The "news" article even quotes the intent and then goes on to entirely ignore it

Naturally chuds

This bill is about sperm and regulating it, which is creepy, weird, and all sorts of 'WTF.'

Like chuds obsession with babies.

I'd expect them to introduce friction and confusion amongst allies, major trading partners, and at home, degrade and dismantle major institutions like in the FBI, CIA, and NIH so they cannot get a see what is going on, take a foreign policy stance regarding Ukraine that is in Russia's favor, further exacerbate domestic issues to distract and pin the people against each other, and pin more blame to groups other than Russia like Mexico and China.

That way, Russia can move and act more freely without the US knowing or even being able to do anything and the US will have lost their capacity to function for years-decades at best.

We're ripe for a massive increase in corruption because key groups with oversight capabilities are being done away with. FBI are being degraded, so we won't even know let alone measure what is going on. NIH is being degraded, so we are losing our key health surveillance and research infrastructure to address chronic illnesses and new infectious disease we know are coming our way. Musk even took aim at major US defense programs like the F35, which we know is accumulating strong evidence of its effectiveness as Allied countries have shown, so the military may well be degraded too on top of things.

Russian agent or simply corrupt and unhinged (why not both?), the Trump administration is in the process of doing, and has done, more damage to us than our adversaries could do alone.

The question of "Is he a Russian asset or not?" doesn't matter if the outcome is the same. Putin is probably building more troll farms as we speak.

They would probably start dismantling the government agencies that are investigating them.

And maybe slip up and give a Nazi salute during the inauguration

Gestures around generally

Yup. It's happening now, just look around.

Although I'd argue that Trump is too stupid to be a "secret agent." He's just a fricking useful idiot for them.

I assume Musk bought the pee tapes from Putin and that's why Musk is now holding press conferences in the Oval Office.

They still think the pee tapes are a thing.

Why can't libs recognize Russia as the irrelevant backwater that it is?

Why is this in the politics hole?

Because vaccines are political chud.

Suddenly all redditors become experts in the field of organ transplantation and realize that giving a heart to a dying child is ethically wrong even if there is nobody else on the list and the child is unvaccinated.

The medical field says vaccines must be given as the child is at risk of getting diseases without the vaccines that make the heart transplant useless, conspiracytards respond that the covid vaccine has already been proven to cause heart issues in the first place as a side effect so makes no sense to require covid vaxx to get a heart transplant, my personal non expert opinion says that not having a vaccine increases your chances of getting a disease, but it does not guarantee it, and if the heart is the difference between life or death, then the child has every right to it as long as there is no else on the list before her who needs it more.

Interesting observations:

Hospital admits that vaccines increase the likelihood of a successful organ transplant. Which I believe should lead to the child still getting the transplant if nobody else needs the heart more at the moment.

https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/news/release/2025/transplant-statement

Because children who receive a transplant will be immunosuppressed for the rest of their life, vaccines play a critical role in preventing or reducing the risk of life-threatening infections, especially in the first year. These decisions involve discussion between our providers and the patient's family.

Organs can stay alive for a few weeks after a person is dead, which means if the girl is the only person around who needs a heart in that time frame, then it makes sense to give it to her even if she is unvaccinated. Not a single redditor appears to have noticed this or mentioned it and all have decided the child is meant to die now.

A deceased organ donor is kept on a ventilator after she/he has been declared brain-dead. They will remain on the ventilator until necessary approvals are taken and the organs can be retrieved. A Brain stem Dead person's organs may stay alive for a period of time that may range from a few days to a few weeks.

As far as I can tell ( I might be completely wrong somebody confirm for me ) if you refuse the covid vaccine, you will not be allowed to get an organ transplant, even if nobody else needs that organ at the moment. So they would rather throw an organ in the trash rather than allow it access to an unvaccinated person.

> Transplant recipients must follow a very strict regimen and if they are unwilling to get vaccinated despite repeated recommendations, they should be excluded.

In adult recipients, the median survival time is 9.4 years, in comparison with 2.4 years among patients awaiting a heart. In pediatric recipients, the median survival time is 12.8 years. Overall, heart transplantation has added approximately 270,000 life-years (mean, 4.9 yr/recipient)

This above statement is the only thing that to me somewhat explains why doctors are not willing to expend much time trying to save unvaccinated organ transplant patients. The survival years are already so low and organs available for donation are so low in number, but I still cannot ascertain why not just put the unvaccinated at the very back of the list and technically only able to get an organ after everybody vaccinated has gotten an organ. Even if the unvaccinated never receive an organ, it would show that there is no active discrimination or attempt to exclude people from the medical system altogether, simply a limitation of resources and focus on using them where they are most viable to work.

Interesting comments:

Not letting people with authority do whatever with your children because they know better makes you evil.

Letting your 12 year old die to own the libs. Classic MAGA

They killed their daughter. Not the hospital by rejecting the transplantation request no matter if the organ is going to rot instead. The parents of the child are evil. Not the system that won't even make them eligible to be on the very back of the list if they don't get the vaccines.

So they're collecting money on GoFundMe despite not even being eligible for the operation? They will not be getting an exemption

One redditor gets the reasoning right but still doesn't question why non-vaccinated cannot be at minimum at the very back of the list for transplants.

I'm assuming it's because getting the body to accept an implant requires a lot of antibiotics and the patient would be weak and thus at much higher risk of death - potentially wasting the transplant when other people who will get the jab are just as in need.

One great mind of reddit theorizes that this is a 4D chess move by the parents to get rid of an adopted child.

They can either cause a massive fuss about their child being killed by vaccine mandates or the government taking their child away because of vaccine mandates.

The parents turn out to be r-slurred. Nobody really surprised.

Janeen claims that vaccines are unsafe, and also said they came to their decision after "the Holy Spirit put it on our hearts".

But what about just putting them at the very back of the transplant list? What's wrong with that.

Fair. If you're not going to take care of your body you don't deserve new organs. They are in short supply. Sorry not sorry.

A "doctor of reddit" Chimes in.

Doctor here. Pretty straightforward regarding transplants. One of the most scarce resources we have in medicine, so to be eligible, you HAVE to show you are willing to follow medical advice and protocols to maximize chances of success, because even then there is a good percentage that fail. You are on immunosuppressants for life, and any infection can be fatal. So yeah, vaccination has always been prerequisite

That makes sense, but factoring in that organs are so rare for transplantation and vaccinated people have a far higher likelihood of success, why don't we at least allow the unvaccinated to be at the very back of the list, as having an organ transplant with a 5% chance of success is still higher than the 0% chance of success when their organ fails?

Conclusion:

Redditors went insane in their echo chambers and will never be able to leave them. They are all brain wormed now and they will either be able to function in a Kamala world, or go insane and die out in a any other world.

An evil Republican may own a dozen s*x slaves to satisfy himself, but a good redditor will let an entire nation of women be r*ped as long as it is done in the name of "being on the right side of history and not letting white people harm (punish) minorities (male feminists from minority groups)".

!mottezans moral quandary for you. Should American medical system allow unvaccinated people on organ donation lists at the very back in case they ever run out of vaccinated people but there is still an organ around, or is it more ethical to perma ban all unvaccinated from the organ transplant list altogether and force them to get vaccinated to be on the list in any capacity? Note that organs are rare to acquire for transplantation, last only a few years, a decade if the person who received them is lucky, and being unvaccinated raises the chances of getting an infection and the transplant failing far faster than in the case of vaccinated individuals. The mortality rate may be 5X higher for unvaccinated patients who get an organ transplant compared to vaccinated individuals.

There's this development called Colony Ridge which is selling/renting to Latinx without SSN's. They've managed to attract lawsuits from both the left and the right over different issues.

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"We will not be able to sell our developments if each of our buyers have to have SS#’s."

I obtained his stunning admissions🧵 pic.twitter.com/f2nWFuWA5r

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@peepeehands

AOC says she's NOT pregnant. She just "ate a lot of food at Thanksgiving. It happens." pic.twitter.com/1L2uhwodGJ

— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) February 12, 2025

My reasoning:

It is because they are all nations that are despised by a noticeable share of the world.

Based on the image above, we should expect China, Russia, and Israel to fall first. Followed by an ever weakening USA over time if the future leaders of the US are similar to Trump and strain international relationships further.

China and Russia would lose primarily because they are working together and one or the other of the group is hated by the majority of world powers. The US hates China, EU hates Russia, Japan hates China, India hates China, UK hates Russia, Brazil hates China. This pretty much guarantees that over time these economies will fail and die because there will be major powers constantly trying to undermine them every step of the way.

Israel will also fail because lol just look at the Israel hate map, which is pretty much half of Africa, parts of South America, and the middle East. There is no coming back from that much hate for your people. Especially as a small nation state. Israel is doomed both from within and without. As outside of Israel only US guarantees its safety and over time the US cares less about Israel every generation. From within because Israel has its demographics getting replaced by the most orthodox Israeli populations who aren't known for being practical geniuses.

Conclusion:

Russia and China will split in time. Russia breaks apart into multiple regional powers. Same for China splitting into two parts. This leads to India dominating the eastern half of the world but never reaching up to catching up with the US. Meanwhile parts of Russia that have broken free now act as the new buffer zone between remaining Russia and Europe, with Ukraine now joining the EU because there is more buffer zone between them and Russia.

Western world order will remain in place, with European Union and the US acting as equal partners. They will have to give up on Israel in time however, as Israel is overtaken by the arab populations from within, and all cultural connection to Europe is lost forever.

Introducing your new Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Congratulations to @TulsiGabbard on her confirmation. Now go give the deep state hell for what they’ve done! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/8JCiiFgEoM

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 12, 2025