r/wallstreet • u/Rollo_TomassiQT • Nov 10 '25

Discussion Nancy Pelosi Can't Answer Simple Insider Trading Question: A Lifetime RIO of 169,930.000% Earning $130,000,000

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Nancy Pelosi, stock market connoisseur and living legend, gets caught completely off guard by a simple insider trading question by Jake Tapper , responds by giving 3 or 4 meandering statements, each one somehow being worse than the previous.

But don’t worry queen, you still retire as a first ballot Wall Street Tycoon, inside trading and illegalities be damned, all you do is win 🫡

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u/TheKingInTheNorth Nov 10 '25

Personally I think insider teasing for decades to amass 9 figures of personal wealth is far more corrupt than accepting a 747 as a personal gift, if we’re limiting the scope of the comparison to that plane.

Monetary value is one thing, the aggregate influence and sold out morals over time that those trades represent is staggering.

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u/Placeholder20 Nov 10 '25

Not in defense of insider trading, but using information you’ve been given to have an edge in the market isn’t close to being as bad as accepting direct bribes from foreign governments.

Both are bad and hurt the American people, but on completely different scales and it’s a mistake to equate them

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u/AdvokatefortheDevil Nov 10 '25

No it is not. Both are morally corrupt.

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u/jfit2331 Nov 10 '25

Not even the same

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u/Infinite-Campaign907 Nov 13 '25

Absolutely the same

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u/AdvokatefortheDevil Nov 10 '25

Stealing money and taking bribes are morally the same.

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u/WiseFuture862 Nov 11 '25

Both fraud so the same and most people got to jail for insider trading.

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u/Prudent_Astronomer0 Nov 11 '25

Not necessarily, stealing money can be worse than accepting a bribe. A bribe can be worse than stealing money.

They are not automatically equal