Nancy Pelosi’s Strange Response to Insider Trading Question – YouTube
It’s even worse when it’s a Congress person, because they’re not only using insider information…they make legislative decisions that impact the companies that they are trading in. So they can literally manipulate a surge or decline in the stock price of a company, and then use that information to buy/sell at opportune times. Even billionaires don’t have that kind of access (the politician might work for them, but they still aren’t the one’s making the public decision).