At a press gaggle on Tuesday night, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) defended her stock trading amidst President Trump's tariff moves.
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00:00can you at least respond to the criticism that's been published you know i think that criticism is
00:17laughable president trump has been talking about tariffs for decades president trump announced
00:23april 2nd is when he was putting tariffs in place i have a fiduciary agreement with my portfolio
00:28manager i don't place my buys and sells that's something that the portfolio manager does for me
00:35and he did a great job guess what he did he bought the dip and that's what anybody that
00:39has any financial sense does when they know the market's going to be going down that was obvious
00:44to everyone uh and president trump had announced here long before that wasn't anything uh that wasn't
00:51a secret big big public information congresswoman on the stock issue can you just confirm and thanks
00:58for taking our questions can you just confirm that you didn't have prior knowledge of the
01:03pause because of the trust pause on tariffs and that you didn't have any conversations with your
01:08portfolio manager about that oh yeah no no conversations whatsoever and president trump
01:14i think he's done a wonderful job with how he's been handling tariffs uh what we did know is he was
01:19starting them on april 2nd that was announced for the whole world to know and um so i think he's doing
01:25a great job negotiating for america
01:35you