Trump buys at least $82 million in bonds since late August, financial disclosures show

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks astir the U.S. authorities shutdown, during the swearing-in ceremonial for Sergio Gor arsenic U.S. Ambassador to India, astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Nov. 10, 2025.

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U.S. President Donald Trump bought astatine slightest $82 cardinal successful firm and municipal bonds from precocious August to aboriginal October including caller investments successful sectors benefiting from his policies, fiscal disclosures made nationalist connected Saturday showed.

According to the forms released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Trump carried retired much than 175 fiscal purchases from Aug. 28 done Oct. 2. The disclosures, made nether a 1978 transparency instrumentality called the Ethics successful Government Act, bash not database nonstop amounts for each purchase, lone providing a wide range.

The maximum full worth of the enslaved purchases exceeded $337 million, according to the filings.

Most of the assets listed successful Saturday's disclosures dwell of bonds issued by municipalities, states, counties, schoolhouse districts and different entities with ties to nationalist agencies.

Trump's caller enslaved investments span respective industries, including sectors that person already benefited, oregon are benefiting, from his administration's argumentation changes specified arsenic fiscal deregulation.

Corporate bonds acquired by Trump see offerings from chipmakers specified arsenic Broadcom and Qualcomm; tech companies specified arsenic Meta Platforms; retailers specified arsenic Home Depot and CVS Health; and Wall Street banks specified arsenic Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Purchases of the indebtedness of concern banks successful precocious August included bonds of JPMorgan.

On Friday, Trump asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate JP Morgan implicit its ties to the precocious financier and convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein. The slope has said it regrets its past ties with Epstein and did not assistance him perpetrate "heinous acts."

Trump besides acquired Intel bonds aft the U.S. government, nether Trump's direction, acquired a stake successful the company.

The White House did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Saturday. The medication has said earlier that Trump has continued to record mandatory disclosures astir his investments but that neither helium nor his household has a relation successful moving the portfolio, which is managed by a third-party fiscal institution.

Trump, who became affluent successful the existent property assemblage earlier entering politics, has antecedently said that helium placed his companies into a spot overseen by his children.

A disclosure filed successful August indicated that Trump had purchased much than $100 cardinal successful bonds since returning to the presidency connected Jan. 20. Trump besides submitted his yearly disclosure signifier successful June, which indicated that income from his assorted ventures inactive yet goes to him, raising concerns of imaginable conflicts of interest.

In that yearly disclosure, which appeared to screen the 2024 calendar year, Trump reported much than $600 cardinal successful income from cryptocurrencies, play properties, licensing and different ventures. It besides showed Trump's propulsion into crypto had added substantially to his wealth.

Overall, the president's June disclosure reported assets worthy astatine slightest $1.6 billion, according to a Reuters calculation astatine the time.

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