Trump Loaded Up on ABT Stock Before His DOJ Dropped Criminal Probe
The New Octopus -- The Nightmare by Mark Bryan.
Trump Loaded Up on Abbott Laboratories Stock Before His DOJ Dropped Criminal Probe
Abbott, which donated $500,000 to the president’s inaugural fund, faced an investigation stemming from alleged deadly contamination at one of its baby formula plants in Michigan.
by Jake Johnson
Common Dreams, July 02, 2026
US President Donald Trump last year purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars of Abbott Laboratories stock before his Justice Department dropped a years-long criminal investigation into the company, which was accused of misconduct after infant hospitalizations and deaths were linked to one of its baby formula factories.
The stock purchases were revealed in the president’s annual financial disclosure report, which spans 927 pages and shows thousands of trades valued at over $1 billion. Trump’s first purchase of Abbott stock last year was made in late September, and the president bought around $500,000 worth of shares in total in 2025, according to the nonprofit media organization More Perfect Union.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that “top decision makers” at the Department of Justice shut down the criminal investigation into Abbott—which donated $500,000 to Trump’s inaugural fund—even though “some prosecutors believed they had evidence to criminally charge the company under a law they have used to pursue other businesses for allegedly selling contaminated foods.”
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The Food and Drug Administration received reports of at least nine infant deaths linked to baby formula produced at Abbott’s Sturgis plant, which the company temporarily shut down amid fears of dangerous contamination. The Justice Department launched its investigation into Abbott, the largest infant formula manufacturer in the US, in 2023, under the administration of former President Joe Biden.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-abbott-laboratories
Traitor may be a stupid turd, but he sure knows how to transform "public service" into a self-service all you can grift smorgasbord of crime.
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Mainly for the exposure. If accurate this a really bad one for Trump because it involves babies dying. If there's one thing that pretty much everyone agrees with, it's that when giant corporations cause the death of infants due to greed and/or negligence, it pisses people off.
But also for more personal reasons insofar as I want to share it widely on social media, however, I've been burned by putting too much trust in a Common Dreams-sourced story. Don't get me wrong, I like them, but won't trumpet out their reporting unless I get confirmation from larger sources 
However, I have seen them get things wrong before. Also it's too easy for others to wave them off like "lol, Common Dreams, liberal rag" kinda shit. A major NYT article is a lot more convincing to the average (other) person. And these facts, if accurate, are most CERTAINLY worthy of something like that 
Also I feel like any time I post Common Dreams links on Facebook, nobody else EVER sees it/comments/reacts. I think FB suppresses broadcasting on posts with articles from distinctly liberal sources, but that may just be me being paranoid.
My own personal comfort invertebrate is the Cuttlefish.
.webp
Background for those new to the subject:
Experiment reveals cuttlefish have a 'sophisticated brain'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51392291
No backbone, but plenty of computing power and the ability to camouflage one's self into the background.
...and if it's not a coincidence, then it's an "unofficial act" that comes with presumed immunity thanks to the SCROTUS (Supreme Court Republicans Of The United States), see?
It's like criminal synchronicity, all the crimes happening everywhere all at once.
We shoulda locked them up, with or without John Roberts and the rest of Trump's SCROTUS co-conspirators.
Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause
The disclosure, more than 14 months after the purchases occurred, is the latest revelation to fuel calls for greater scrutiny of the president’s financial assets.
by Steve Kopack and Gabe Gutierrez
NBC News, July 2, 2026
Investment accounts owned by President Donald Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day ahead of his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, according to Trump’s annual financial disclosure report.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trump-stock-trades-before-tariff-pause-rcna352723
Thanks to We the People, the sordid and sundry treasons and crimes will not last for ever.
Additional Prairieland Defendants To Be Sentenced on July 1, One Week After Federal Court Imposed Shocking 30-100 Year Sentences, Followed By Press Conference
Prairieland Defendants / News for immediate release
June 29, 2026
One Trial Defendant, Two Defendants Who Took Non-Cooperating Plea Deals, and Four Defendants Who Took Cooperating Plea Deals Will Be Sentenced on Wednesday
FORT WORTH, TX – One week after a Fort Worth federal court imposed shocking and unprecedented 30-100 year sentences for nine Prairieland defendants convicted in March, the US District Court will sentence another seven defendants on Wednesday, July 1. Trial defendant Ines Soto, convicted of rioting, conspiracy to use an explosive, and providing material support to terrorists, will be sentenced by Judge Reed O’Connor, the same judge who sentenced four Prairieland defendants last week. Judge O’Connor will also sentence two defendants who took non-cooperating plea deals—Joy “Rowan” Gibson and Rebecca Morgan.
Judge O’Connor relied on a “deterrence” rationale when imposing the draconian sentences last week against Prairieland defendants.With deep and long-standing ties to the Federalist Society, he employed rarely-used terrorism enhancements last week to trigger mandatory minimum prison terms and additionally ordered their sentences to be served consecutively instead of concurrently. Notably, Judge O’Connor sentenced Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who wasn’t even present at the noise demonstration, to 30 years in prison for moving a box of First Amendment-protected literature and art unrelated to the case from one location to another.
US District Judge Mark Pittman—a Trump appointee, founding member of the Fort Worth Chapter of the Federalist Society, and the trial judge who was responsible for sentencing Benjamin Song last week to 100 years in prison—will sentence four defendants on Wednesday who cooperated with the prosecution.
What: Federal sentencing of additional Prairieland defendants
When: Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 8:30am
Where: Federal Courthouse, 501 West 10th Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Supporters will hold a press conference, featuring statements by defendants, family members, and community and faith leaders, outside the courthouse at 11am or when sentencing concludes.
“This case is about far more than the Prairieland demonstrators,” said Sufia Khalid, Deputy Director of the National Security Criminal Defense Center at the Muslim Legal Fund of America, and legal counsel for Prairieland defendant Maricela Rueda, who was sentenced last week to 70 years in prison.“It asks whether the government may continue expanding terrorism statutes into the realm of domestic political protest and then obtain 50 to 100 year sentences of imprisonment based on sentencing theories the jury itself rejected,” continued Khalid. “Those are profound constitutional questions involving due process, proportionality, and the First Amendment. We will be seeking careful appellate review of the abuses in this case.”
In light of the egregious sentencing and trial irregularities, nonprofits, politicians, and pundits have brought renewed attention to the Prairieland case and the precedent set for those engaging in anti-ICE protest. Similar attempts in Minnesota, Michigan, and Spokane by the Trump administration to target left-wing protest have added to growing concerns that the Prairieland case will serve as a blueprint for politically motivated prosecutions. “Protests are a protected human right,” stated Amnesty International last week. “The Trump administration continues to misuse overly broad and vaguely defined ‘domestic terrorism’ charges against anyone it deems to be ‘antifa,’” continued the statement. “These charges are not only politically motivated, but they are a serious abuse of criminal law to target dissent and neutralize opposition.”
Minutes before last week’s sentencing, Judges Pittman and O’Connor dismissed numerous motions to overturn the convictions without providing written rulings and with little-to-no explanation. All nine trial defendants filed motions for a new trial, detailing how the government failed to provide the necessary evidence for a conviction and instead put on a trial that was “saturated with evidence designed to evoke fear, political bias, and guilt by association,” according to one of the motions. Another motion details potential juror misconduct. Prairieland defendants have vowed to fight their convictions and will be filing appeals in the following weeks.
From the beginning, supporters have argued the federal Prairieland defendants were denied a fair trial—from the prosecutor referring to them, without evidence, as a North Texas “antifa terror cell,” to prejudicial actions taken at the highest levels of government, to court decisions that limited their defense, including sanctioning and threatening defense counsel, declaring a mistrial when the prospective jury pool appeared sympathetic to the defendants, and denying Benjamin Song a ‘defense of another’ argument at trial.
The Prairieland cases, involving 22 people charged with both state and federal charges, stem from a noise demonstration in solidarity with detainees at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, 2025. After the protest, an officer with the Alvarado Police Department arrived on the scene, quickly drawing his gun and pointing it at departing protesters. Shots were fired and the officer allegedly sustained minor injuries, but authorities have never provided hospital records to justify these claims. Alvarado police arrested ten people in the area, and a dozen more were arrested over the following several months.
Visit the Prairieland website for revealing information that debunks the dominant narratives which have been perpetuated by the government in its aim to criminalize anti-ICE resistance: https://prairielanddefendants.com.
Press Release Source (with links): https://prairielanddefendants.com/press-release/additional-prairieland-defendants-to-be-sentenced-on-july-1-one-week-after-federal-court-imposed-shocking-30-100-year-sentences-followed-by-press-conference/
Additional background and links from CounterPunch:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/02/sentencing-of-the-prairieland-defendants-necessitates-a-massive-movement-against-ice-and-repression/
Wouldn't be surprised if the turd ordered Ka$h Patel to do black bag jobs for the traitors' personal benefit.
