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who exactly are 'trump's cronies' and how are they getting richer? thats what they kept saying about him in 2016. did he ( or his) actually get richer from his time in office ?

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There are tons of cases like this, and they are only the really, really, really obvious ones https://www.propublica.org/article/us-officials-stock-sales-...

his "cronies" are some guy in his office that sold $30k stock?

Charles Schwabb (the person) and Roger Penske were on video with Trump bragging about making money off the stock market turmoil around tariffs: https://newrepublic.com/post/193860/donald-trump-brags-tarif...

> Elon Musk made a whopping $36 billion as Tesla stock soared up 23 percent

this sentence is ridiculous. he did not "make" $36 billion.

The journalist is repeating the framing of one of the subjects of the article, which is fair play.

so i guess we'll go with subject's framing in this one particular thing.

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