Crooksandliars iconCrooksandliarsSep 4, 2026 ~1 min source read

Van Orden Denies That Trump Is Doing Any Insider Trading

TMZ caught up to Rep Drunken Van Orden and asked him about insider trading. Derrick Van Orden told @hicharliecotton that a bunch of members of Congress shamefully use insider trading to make loads of cash, but he says Pres.

Van Orden Denies That Trump Is Doing Any Insider Trading

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TMZ caught up to Rep Drunken Van Orden and asked him about insider trading.

Derrick Van Orden told @hicharliecotton that a bunch of members of Congress shamefully use insider trading to make loads of cash, but he says Pres.

pic.twitter.com/LBgiUPvM5h — TMZ (@TMZ) September 2, 2026 First, DVO humblebragged about how much insider info he gets because of his position, but he would never do anything like that himself.

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TMZ caught up to Rep Drunken Van Orden and asked him about insider trading. Derrick Van Orden told @hicharliecotton that a bunch of members of Congress shamefully use insider trading to make loads of cash, but he says Pres. pic.twitter.com/LBgiUPvM5h — TMZ (@TMZ) September 2, 2026 First, DVO humblebragged about how much insider info he gets because of his position, but he would never do anything like that himself.

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  • He defended Trump as being squeaky clean, despite his family raking in billions of dollars during his presidency.
  • DVO also said that the people who do Trump's trading are independent of the president, even though it's Trump's sons who do his trading for him.

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His comments were a bit odd, to say the least. He went on like he was eager for the reporter to ask the right question so he could spill the Long Island Iced Tea on his colleagues, saying, "just look at their stock trading records." But when the reporter brought up Donald Trump, DVO's dander would have been raised if he had any hair.

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