In the interests of full disclosure, many of my clients do as well as part of their diversified portfolio. Unless it is individual stock, if you have mutual funds which are funds of funds, you own a LOT of different interests, some of which you may not even be aware of.
What would be much more surprising is if the NY Times wrote something positive about this particular president....for anything. Not an "apologist", but after a while, the same negative vein day after day starts to loose a level of objectiveness.
kind of like what the NY times did for several years on Hillary's emails....media loves scandal, and that is not a new phenomenon
a story like this will gain plenty of traction whether it's warranted or not
it starts with trump's repeated mentions of the drug that still remains unproven. We know he's getting plenty of push-back and warnings about the drug's viability, as well as side effects, but he keeps bringing it up
but more that that is just the history of trump and money and corruption
* repeated bankruptcies
* the corruption and incompetence of Trump University and Trump Charities, both of which had to be closed
* trump's miraculous ability to secure loans after exaggerating his financial statements
* timely above market value purchases of condos at trump properties by foreign investors, mostly Russians
* hush money payments to porn stars/models
* an unprecedented fast track for trademarks in China for Ivanka
* air force officers staying at a trump property in Scotland when cheaper, closer options were available
* Secret service paying above market rates for lodging at trump properties
* using congressional approved funds as leverage to coerce a foreign nation to aid his re-election
* trying to force Deutsche Bank bank to allow suspension of loan payments on over 300 million debt at the same time his justice department is investigating the bank
so yeah, a story about trump owning stock in a company that makes a drug he keeps praising fits a pattern and will seem credible, whether or not there's much to it. You can blame the media, as trump-world does all the time, but there's way too much stench rising out of the trump swamp to disregard a story like this
by the way, speaking of really fishy timing: it's pretty interesting that trump waited till now to fires the IG that brought the whistleblower complaint to congress. Might it be that he was the IG selected by the 10 IG's to chair the panel that will oversee the spending of the 2 trillion stimulus package. With that IG gone, trump was able to appoint a yes-man to fill the vacancy
