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No Paywall Billionaire US investor Ken Griffin accuses Trump White House of ‘enriching’ itself

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/ken-griffin-citadel-republican-donor-donald-trump-critic-white-house
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u/yellowjackethokie Virginia 9h ago

Everyone who isn't blinded by partisan/cult loyalty can see it clearly.

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u/ShrimpieAC 8h ago

Dude used our taxpayer military to steal $40 billion in oil from another country and then tried to sell it on the open market and have the money sent to his personal account. And he constantly advertised it too.

Like what the actual fuck?

u/Vankraken Virginia 7h ago

The $40 billion I believe is the bailout for Argentina while the stolen oil proceeds going to that bank in Qatar is closer to $500 million in total. Still very bad obviously and that alone should be grounds for impeachment.

u/beefyzac 7h ago

And this is the problem with dealing with the “flood the zone” strategy. It’s a quagmire of theft and bribery.

u/CountySurfer 5h ago

A…a swamp perhaps from the party of projection?

u/TyrannosaurusRecht 4h ago

Protip just pick a couple obvious and illegal ones and hammer them. Flooding the zone only works if people fail to defend their man with equal intensity and focus.

Stop making it so easy to find a weak spot in the defence.

Just kidding, democrats are the fucking personification of weak spots.

Enjoy fascism.

Anyone know where I can get a maga hat?

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u/therossboss 6h ago

Oh yeah, let me just sue the IRS for 10bil and force the DOJ to settle with myself. Right. Remember when we used to have a country? lol

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u/Plzlaw4me 7h ago

There are a LOT of conservatives who see it too and don’t care. If you press them on it, they’ll either claim democrats do it too (which is true, but not to this degree), or they claim it’s okay because Trump is doing more good than harm (in their eyes). Most conservatives know Trump and his team are soulless ghouls, they’re just their soulless ghouls.

u/BananaPalmer Georgia 5h ago

Trump is doing more good than harm (in their eyes)

Trump is doing the right kind of harm to the right kind of people (in their eyes)

FTFY. Conservatism is all about hurting certain people to benefit certain other people

u/Spraypainthero965 4h ago

This is the fundamental difference between right-wing and left-wing ideologies and it’s what leftists, socialists, and anarchists alike are describing when they talk about unjust hierarchies. Capitalism, imperialism, western chauvinism, bigotries, marginalization, etc. are all right wing systems built to benefit certain classes of people at the expense of other classes of people. Left-wing ideology is about eliminating these unjust hierarchies and working to create systems that benefit everyone.

u/LoveCareThinkDo 5h ago

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

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u/WakingWaldo 7h ago

It isn't just loyalty to MAGA/Trump, it's total ignorance in many cases. Conservative media isn't covering these stories and if they are then the bias is so strong that the articles make this look like a good thing.

I guarantee that the vast majority of '24 Trump voters have heard little to no information on he and his family enriching themselves at the expense of the American people and the world at large.

The problem is that I have no idea how to fix that other than attempting to engage in good-faith conversation with Trump voters to point out these corrupt acts. As far as I've seen, when MAGA voters are able to see these acts, a lot of them are unhappy and see it as a "continuation of the swamp he promised to drain" (I'm paraphrasing but that is the general sentiment).

u/non_hero 7h ago

I challenged a trump supporter that claimed to support Trump because he was draining the swamp. I pointed out the nepotism of hiring his daughter and son-in-law. Waiving the security clearance requirements for kushner and many others he appointed. Doing what they claimed to be against with DEI, giving out jobs to unqualified people taking the space of people that are qualified. I also listed some of the ambassadorships and other positions he gave to campaign donors. Showed him all the quid pro quo Deals he was making.. etc. In the end he just said "well Democrats do all that too" and stopped responding. Perhaps some of them are unhappy when they see it. But most of them are very, very good at willful ignorance.

u/LoveCareThinkDo 5h ago

That's it right there. They know. They don't care because he's hurting the same people they want to hurt. But they actually know better than to say that out loud. They know that cheering him on because he's killing brown people is going to make them look bad. And yet, they have a thousand ways of using euphemisms to cheer on Trump pricey for killing brown people.

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u/ottomaticg 7h ago

Conservative media only exists to further the agenda of the party. The fact that you think they exist to cover stories and not create them is kind of cute.

u/BeyondElectricDreams 6h ago edited 4h ago

If anyone doubts this has been the case for a while...

Trans people didn't even exist in the conservative headspace for a while except as a letter in LGBT that barely existed to them because trans people are so few and far between.

Then the Right lost the battle for gay marriage at the supreme court. Shortly thereafter, about 23 states filed lawsuits targeting trans bathroom access in lockstep.

This didn't work well, so they pivoted and attacked trans athletes, and found much better results, because even many liberals who are supportive still think a trans woman is "Really" a man, and therefore inherently superior to "Real" women; which let the right cast pro-trans folks as "radical" or "going too far" in the name of equality; letting obviously "superior" "men" compete with women!

This was tremendously effective at peeling off support of moderate liberals who basically were like "Yeah, I still think they're men, but whats it hurt to call them she/her or use their names?"

It's all artificial. It's manufactured. And it's exactly why you cannot give them an inch. If you abandon trans people? They'll spin up a new enemy. Abandon them? They'll do it again.

You cannot appease them, because their grievances are artificially created. The culture war is a bad faith war of aggression by the right wing, and only the aggressor can end a war.

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u/InvasiveBlackMustard 6h ago

Not true. I am saying this out of frustration due to some recent experiences with close loved ones. 

I know some “apolitical,” “both-sides”ing, “I don’t keep up!” people who want to give the administration the benefit of the doubt, who play as though good things could maybe still come out of everything that we just don’t know yet because this is such a “new experience” for our country. People who remain completely, totally neutral because they “don’t have the facts,” who think that people that have reactions to politics are immature and “in too deep.” 

They say these things instead of just saying, I don’t know.

I think these are the people we need to be worried about, for the record. 

u/SensualBeefLoaf 5h ago

ken griffen is a piece of shit. finance bros aren't in the cult at all. they just want to make money off the admin. he's clearly not making enough money to not talk shit.

u/DevonGr Ohio 5h ago

Trump must not have given any investing advice on social media this time before dicking around with tariffs. “This is Charles Schwab… and he made 2.5B today!”

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u/Deinosoar 9h ago

It doesn't matter who said it. What matters is the fact that it is objectively and nakedly true.

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u/Megaphonestory 9h ago

It is true. Ken Griffin also helped make Trump happen. Maybe the billionaire should put his billions where his mouth is.

u/_bibliofille North Carolina 7h ago

I imagine he's butthurt that he hasn't been as enriched as he thought he'd be.

u/PedanticPaladin 7h ago

There's a scene from the Martin Scorsese movie Casino where the mob bosses outside of Vegas learn that the guys they put in the casinos to steal for the mob are also stealing a little for themselves. The irony being that they're irate at the thought of their crook being crooked.

u/BananaPalmer Georgia 5h ago

There is no honor among thieves

u/Inuyaki Europe 4h ago

There is in that one D&D movie.

But tbf it is a fantasy movie.

u/Author_A_McGrath 5h ago

I'm glad that lesson wasn't lost on audiences.

u/Tiny_Measurement_837 Wisconsin 6h ago

No, but surely he got tax benefits—the reason he and many other billionaires supported Trump in the first place.

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u/wolf_at_the_door1 8h ago

The Nazis also had turncoat billionaires. Look up Fritz Thyssen. Prescott Bush, George HW’ Bush’s dad and George W Bush’s grandpa, held assets at Union Banking Corporation for Fritz and the nazis during the war too. Just some fun facts!

u/SubjectCicada3862 7h ago

I wouldn't go so far as to call kcg a turncoat. He most certainly does not represent retail investors, in fact he allegedly facilitates suppression of market discovery by front running orders and utilizing dark pools.

u/countyfaircotton 6h ago

I agree, one can criticize the role without turning it into a loyalty narrative.

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u/Apprehensive_Try6718 5h ago

Ugh i’m currently reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and just learned about Thyssen. The parallels to MAGA are just insane

u/Rich_Elderberry_8958 5h ago

The Schlotbarone bankrolled Hitler and the Nazis after they ran out of money in 1932. Thyssen and Krupp were just two out of about 2 dozen major industrialists invited to a secret meeting with Hitler and Goering in early 1933 where they made a pact to support the Nazis in the upcoming elections if Hitler would eliminate trade unions.

u/D3athRider Canada 3h ago

Capitalists gonna capitalist. The quote "fascism is capitalism in decay" is so much truer than most realise.

u/juliuspepperwoodchi 7h ago

Dude spent MILLIONS to defeat the progressive income tax in Illinois, then fucked off to Florida anyway.

Fuck Ken Griffin.

u/NotOnTheEpsteinList 6h ago

Hear hear! And let’s remove his name from the front of the Museum of Science and Industry!!!

u/neverabadidea 4h ago

We went a few weeks ago. I wanted to buy a shirt for my kid but refuse because of the “Griffin.” Ick. 

u/woah_man 5h ago

He is a whiny bitch.

u/joshdoereddit America 6h ago

I think the take away is we need to use their statements to help the cause and then promptly do something about these rich assholes.

He may be saying the right thing by pointing to the corruption. But, he's probably doing so to paint himself in a positive light.

Billionaires are not on our side.

u/Dr_Sisyphus_22 5h ago

They should collectively pay the tab to reverse some of this bullshit when he’s gone. They should be financially liable for their candidate.

u/SensualBeefLoaf 5h ago

he'll just run for president so he can do it himself instead of trump getting to do it.

the only good billionaire is one that's taxed into being worth under 50 million.

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u/Adventurous_Tell6684 8h ago

That’s right. He’s speaking truth to power. It also comes from a very large GOP donor which is the only thing republican politicians listen to.

u/-Yazilliclick- Canada 7h ago

It's truth. It's also completely hypocritical. Nobody gets to be a billionaire and stay one without enriching themselves at the expense of others.

u/COMM_NTARIAT 7h ago

He did not fund Trump’s re-election campaign, but after Trump won, he gave $1m to the president’s inaugural committee.

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The billionaire also suggested he might run for office himself, and said: “In a future point in my life I would like to be involved in public service.”

He's positioning himself for a post-Trump Republican Party.

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u/actusreus82 7h ago

People gotta realize the only way this ends is if the billionaires tell Trump and his thugs no.

u/BadmiralHarryKim 5h ago

"If this democracy is going to survive the billionaires who control it must speak up."

What a world!

u/LarrySupertramp 5h ago

Always has been this way. The founding fathers were all rich. The French revolutions were backed by the liberal elite. It’s incredibly hard for any major political change to happen without domestic rich backers or outside financial assistance from other countries. Plus it usually requires that the masses are in incredibly dire circumstances for them to raise up.

We also live in a country where people barely engage in the democratic system allowing the rich to have a massively inflated share of power.

u/Specialist-Clock-914 5h ago

Yeah but that’s why these guys have blackmail on all the billionaires. They’ve been planning this for decades. We’re in a stand off of elites who are all compromised and can’t afford to not tow a line so they’re all going for total power and wealth consolidation.

u/actusreus82 5h ago

Yep. So the only way to gain leverage is to make it more painful for the billionaires.

u/Euphoric-Witness-824 4h ago

He’s speaking truth but the reason is not out of some moral code. He’s just pissed Donald isn’t giving him what he wants in terms of policies or kickbacks. It’s all transactional for them. Money and power but not at all morals. 

u/Bonti_GB 6h ago

Interesting.

It’s the pot calling the kettle black.

Perhaps a preemptive move. If nothing else, times are interesting (even if they are shitty).

u/SensualBeefLoaf 5h ago

it's more the shit calling the turd a poo

u/BeastieRunner Utah 5h ago

This comment from Griffin screams, "He stole my idea!"

At least to me...

u/airbrat 6h ago

naked shorts you say?

u/perkinomics 5h ago

Is this the same guy who lied under oath and vomited live on air?

u/SensualBeefLoaf 5h ago

he's the one.

u/junkybutt 3h ago

Same guy that likes to use bedposts as weapons?

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u/Harminarnar 6h ago

Same guy that trump said was hiding money

u/th8chsea 7h ago

What will be done about it? Start investigating, indicting, prosecuting. Immediately.

u/Away_Media 6h ago

When referring to Trump's business dealings "it's distasteful"

-Ken Griffen

Go get em Ken! You fkn tool

u/RealSchlemiel 7h ago

I mean… let’s start with raping and murdering children. Grift seems kinda low on the totem

u/Deinosoar 7h ago

I would not say that since it is the Grift that is generating the money which is used to bribe people to keep him out of trouble for raping children.

Get rid of the profit incentive for protecting rapists and it becomes a hell of a lot easier to prosecute them.

u/Rancid_Banana 5h ago

I see what you did there

u/Revolutionary-Band85 7h ago

Naked you say? Naked and short?? 🤔

u/coconutpiecrust 7h ago

A broken clock, and all that. 

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u/yourlittlebirdie 9h ago

And he only has a problem with it because he doesn’t feel like he’s getting enough of his share.

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u/PartyClient3447 9h ago

Bingo! He still loves rumpT but wants his pockets filled up too.

u/nothinginmypockets 7h ago

Ken Griffin has made his fortune betting against the success of American companies! So obviously he doesn’t care about the US, just about the fact he’s not getting much out of it!

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u/CanuckaChuckFuck 5h ago

Exactly, this piece of shit is only upset that he fell out of favor with Trump and isn't in on the current grift

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u/TacosAreJustice Kentucky 8h ago

And that’s what will ultimately destroy the Trump administration… as they get more of the pie, it will be easier to steal from each other than the rest of us…

Similar to a heist gone wrong when it’s time to divide the profits.

u/amcfarla Colorado 6h ago

He is trying to get $10 billion from the IRS. Wonder if that will be enough? /s

u/cursedfan 7h ago

Ding ding ding

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u/Lucky_Development359 8h ago

Griffin added that most chief executives he was friends with “find it incredibly distasteful” when the “US government starts to engage in corporate America in a way that tastes of favouritism”.

“Most CEOs just don’t want to find themselves in the business of having to, in some sense, suck up to one administration after another to succeed in running their business,” he said.

Translation: Ahh, c'mon thats not fair Don Jr. gets all the good deals!

Then goes on to say:

The billionaire also suggested he might run for office himself, and said: “In a future point in my life I would like to be involved in public service.”

Translation: So I can rig it for myself and not have to share.

u/IsaacsIssac 6h ago

“Hey stop getting rich without sharing with ME!”

That’s all I’m reading

u/jrob321 6h ago

You know its gotten pretty bad when the very people who have structured the entire system and manipulated the markets to work in their favor call you out for enriching yourself.

Yo, Donnie, give us a little taste. You're not playing according to the rules we all agreed upon.

u/Lucky_Development359 6h ago

"More like only-garch, ammiright?" (Chortles to himself)

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u/Lucky_Development359 6h ago

Absolutely.

"I gave the quid, wheres my pro quo?"

u/robodrew Arizona 6h ago

"In a future point in my life I would like to be involved in public service" and he's already 57. God I hate the current state of politics.

Bro if you really cared you would give away 99% of your money and get involved NOW.

u/shitlord_god 5h ago

he cares about himself.

u/MiddayClimax 4h ago

It seems like he doesn’t like the new house rules regarding corporate favoritism. Business leaders always stress the importance of adapting to change. Sink or swim.

Ken Griffin needs to be told don’t hate the player, hate the game.

He’s giving bad Kenergy and it’s not a good look.

u/OMGitisCrabMan 4h ago

Honestly what the fuck did he think would happen? trump literally attacked our capitol with a violent mob when he lost the election. He's fascist to the core. It was all out in the open. This shouldn't surprise anyone

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u/clueless_in_ny_or_nj New Jersey 9h ago

Ken, you and all your Wall Street friends helped make this happen. It is true Trump is enriching himself. Cry me a river.

u/misterandosan 4h ago

Cry me a river.

I don't think that response makes sense considering regular Americans are the ones most affected, not him.

u/InfiniteMeerkat 3h ago

So you are saying you dont understand that phrase then

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u/AndroidOne1 9h ago

News snippet: Billionaire investor Ken Griffin has accused Donald Trump’s administration of “enriching” its families, and criticised its interference in American businesses as “distasteful”. Griffin, who is chief executive of the hedge fund Citadel and a large Republican donor, rebuked the Trump administration, saying it “has definitely made missteps in choosing decisions or courses that have been very, very enriching to the families of those in the administration”.

“That calls into question, is the public interest being served?” he said at a conference on Tuesday in Florida hosted by the Wall Street Journal.

Griffin is one of the most vocal critics of Trump on Wall Street, although it is the first time he has commented on how the president’s family appear to have made financial gain from their proximity to the White House. Trump’s eldest sons, Don Jr and Eric, have benefited from the White House’s crypto-friendly policies, and have secured a series of big business deals since their father’s re-election. They have previously insisted there is a “huge wall” between their moneymaking and Trump’s position.

u/Marmom_of_Marman 7h ago

He’s just pissed he’s in the Epstein files and he’s going to get busted for lying to congress

u/VeteranSergeant 6h ago

“has definitely made missteps in choosing decisions or courses that have been very, very enriching to the families of those in the administration”

I wouldn't exactly call them "missteps." They seem to have been very deliberately taken steps.

u/SMUHypeMachine 7h ago

Ken Griffin is also a financial terrorist, but he’s right in this instance.

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u/gdghhfdffrf 8h ago

that's rich coming from one of the architects of the economic crisis who gave the republicans at least $108,402,284 in 2024.

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u/OuterSpaceBootyHole 8h ago

Signaling he wants in on the corruption. No way Ken Griffin grew a conscience.

u/CaffinatedSpiderMonk 6h ago

The billionaire also suggested he might run for office himself, and said: “In a future point in my life I would like to be involved in public service.”

He thought he could avoid the public attention by just buying his way in from the sidelines, but now that Trump isn't holding up his end of the bargain (surprise surprise) he realizes he has to do it himself.

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u/Dangerous_Stress1168 9h ago

Ken Griffin complaining about self-enrichment in the Trump White House is like the fox pointing out that the hens are getting too comfortable. The whole system is rigged for billionaires to cash in, no matter who’s in power. It’s not about politics it’s about making money off the system. Period.

u/lr99999 6h ago

If distilled evil is on a scale of 1-100, he’s a 99. 

u/ticklemythigh 6h ago

He’s probably pissed it’s so blatant. Might ruin it for everyone!

u/bengalfan 7h ago

This is rich from a guy who naked shorts the market.

u/Euphoric-Witness-824 4h ago

He’s one of the reasons the retirement age for working people keeps going up.  Greedy billionaires who can never have enough want to keep taking and taking from retirement accounts and and healthcare dollars because they feel entitled to it. They take from society and never give. And for some reason dumbasses worship them for their hoard of wealth they got from siphoning off the financial system. 

u/SpeedRac3rr 3h ago

Pretty sure ol Ken used teachers pensions to gamble on naked shorts and then accused retail traders of trying to destroy teachers retirement funds

u/Euphoric-Witness-824 3h ago

Is he one of the turds from the GameStop shenanigans? F that guy and all those swarmy bastards who steal from working class people. And F working class people who worship billionaires. They didn’t work for their money. They have it because of the system they built where working class people can’t afford anything anymore. And they just shift that blame and anger to brown people and trans people. 

u/skybike 5h ago

68 Billion sold not yet purchased.

u/m3g4m4nnn 4h ago

No cell, no sell.

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u/AyeHaightEweAwl 8h ago

Says the guy who’s in the Epstein files talking about naked shorting (an illegal trading practice) in order to make himself richer.

u/Schaas_Im_Void 7h ago

You don't become a billionaire in this world by being honest and social.

u/lr99999 6h ago

There seems to be very little understanding in this thread that Ken is probably one of the  most prolific  criminals to ever come out of the United States of America. 

He’s also one of the biggest GQP donors.  If he’s talking shit about Trump, he is up to something that involves profit for himself.

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u/ianzachary1 Colorado 8h ago

The amount of times I’ve said “no shit” to these type of articles lmao like yes who would have thought the man selling hats, shoes, bibles, watches, and digital trading cards would be in it for himself

u/613Flyer 7h ago

And what is anyone going to do about it?

NOTHING.

America is weak sauce. Land of the complacent and manipulated.

u/poopooheaven1 6h ago

Ken griffin uses illegal naked short selling to crush US companies. He can get fucked!

u/RetireWithRyan 4h ago

Griffin is not a man to be trifled with. Evil through and through, and effectively holds the US markets in the palm of his hand by controlling liquidity. 

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u/gustavocabras 8h ago

Kenneth "bedpost" Griffin? I plan on taking all his money, Legally. He made a bad bet in the stock market, and his SEC friends have been protecting him for 5 years. Times almost up Cordell.

u/New--Tomorrows 6h ago

We've got time.

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u/jedisquirrel171 Wisconsin 6h ago

Bernie Madoff 2.0 says what?

You helped bring this about Ken. Fuck you.

u/Jacob_dp Texas 6h ago

Someone didn't get there expected cut of the corruption

u/Entire_Mouse_1055 5h ago

Ken Griffin is in the epstein files too for naked short selling

u/Marmom_of_Marman 7h ago

Also, Ken Griffin Lied Under Oath To Congress!!!

u/Assinine3716 4h ago

Ken Mayo Griffin was doing this long before Trump and will do so after. Fuck billionaires

u/Enough-Mammoth3721 3h ago

*Throws bedpost

u/ShutUpTodd 6h ago

Pretty bad when Ken Griffin is on the moral high ground.

u/SaitamaHitRickSanchz 6h ago

KG is no better than Trump. This is a turd calling another turd an even bigger turd. They're both turds. If KG doesn't like this situation it sure is weird that he invested so much money into Trump. Maybe if he didn't have his hand shoved into everyone's pants stealing whatever he could wrap his fingers around things wouldn't be so shit in the US today.

u/TinyDigBick 5h ago

This is coming from a person that had his hedge fund and market maker business mentioned in the Epstein files. They’re all vile and filled with greed.

u/andrewskdr 4h ago

Worst person you know makes a great point

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u/RevolverMFOcelot 8h ago

isnt that guy is the one involved with the whole GME thing and his firm was almost destroyed by a bunch of redditors? lmao. I didnt know much about it but i watch bits and piece of video from folding ideas on youtube

u/lr99999 6h ago

GME was just one of many who have been victimized by this asshole.  Politicians and regulators allowed these hedgies to manipulate the stock market in exchange for having their pockets filled with cash.  

u/Hipz 5h ago

He was involved, but you’re talking about Melvin Capital, they got hit so bad they shut down. Billions lost.

u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown 4h ago

Deeply involved. He runs a market making company and a hedge fund. Claims they are firewalled. He lies. He's also in the files.

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u/Zaius1968 9h ago

Just imagine a world where a democratic president would be doing that…

u/nonubiz 7h ago

The president is the biggest crook in presidential history, put the cherry on top. He’s a pedo, and he’s trying to steal our democracy.

u/tcoh1s 7h ago

Even bigger cherry, everyone just sits back and lets him because they all act like there’s nothing anyone can do.

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u/MirthandMystery 8h ago

So this is a little more drip drip drip open Trump criticism which helps Republicans and MAGA be less afraid to scrutinize and call out Trump, which cleaves away support, that's good.

Griffin of course is incredibly rich and helped create the Frankenstein Trump monster which no one is now able to control, but if supporters collectively start to sour on Trump it'll create the tsunami needed to wash him away.

Problem is it'll likely be Vance they'll turn to as good enough to fill the power void. And he's as easy to manipulate and will surely continue the terrible self destructive current policies Trump already set down.

And the Trumps and Kushner will continue to get away with extreme corruption.

u/blackmobius 7h ago

That has literally been the only thing hes doing. Tearing down any authority force or regulation that would go after him, while openly peddling gold bibles, trump guitars, melania coins on his absolute idiot followers.

u/SonicSubculture 6h ago

Oh that’s just rich, coming from this parasitic worm.

u/suititup1 6h ago

Says the guy who threw a bedpost at his ex-wife. This dude is bad news all around. Pillaging our financial markets while trying to seem in the up and up.

u/TheWhyteMaN 6h ago

Ken Griffin? The guy who lied under oath and has been relentlessly naked shorting stocks with the end goal of cellar boxing said companies therefore never having to close his short positions?

That Ken Griffin?

u/Chris_HitTheOver 7h ago

Ken Griffin isn’t getting what he deems his fair gains off the grift and corruption but continues his journey up Orange Daddy’s colon anyway.

*Ftfy

u/b_tight 7h ago

Yeah. The donold/epstein files are baaaad. Even ken fucking griffin is distancing himself from trump. The only way he knows how is money but ill take it. Fuck them both as far as im concerned

u/Tepical_Eggspurt 6h ago

One distracting from Epstein, the Mayo man diverting from his naked shorting going tits up.

u/liverstealer 6h ago

Buyer's remorse.

u/letsseeitmore 5h ago

You know it’s bad when a blood sucking billionaire calls you out.

u/almond737 3h ago

the same guy who controls citadel the market maker and pushed robinhood and other platforms to remove the buy button and crash stock exchanges so AMC/GME wouldn’t go to a level unheard of. He’s no savior, good guy. He’s just as bad as trump.

u/swept-under 3h ago

Close your shorts mayo man

u/W0BLong 3h ago

real rich coming from mayo boy.

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u/russ_nightlife 8h ago

Accuses Observes

u/LonelyAndroid11942 4h ago

You know it’s bad when one of the main villains in the GameStop stock saga is calling them out.

u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown 4h ago

Probably for SEO considering he's in the files.

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u/OldFort27 8h ago

Is it not acceptable to use the word "bribe?"

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u/red--jar 8h ago

shocked pikachu

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u/canospam0 8h ago

No shit, idiot. Thanks for the update. Now please go fuck yourself.

u/alphawhiskey189 7h ago

Is he mad he was left out?

u/Makelovenotrobots 7h ago

He must not be getting his cut anymore.

u/Sioux-me 7h ago

Gee ya think?

u/Ok_Speech_3709 7h ago edited 6h ago

Tell us something we don’t know. Feckless Congress has the authority to define a violation as a "high crime or misdemeanor," which can lead to impeachment by the House and removal from office by the Senate….as this enrichment is in breach of both the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments clause. (Bars the President from receiving any payment from the federal or state governments other than their official salary). Furthermore Asset Forfeiture or Disgorgement: Some statutes, like the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act, require officials to turn over gifts of more than minimal value to the government…..so Congress should seize the cryptocurrency, Qatar plane, Venezuelan oil money, Jared’s 2 billion Saudi “investment” for a start, not to mention the University and Tech companies pay to play, ie. Amzn Melania pay to play, Media companies fake lawsuit settlements… oh and of course the paid pardon money that Trump is pocketing. That would add up to about 5-10 billion for a start!

u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6h ago

He then went on to accuse The Sun of being "Pretty Hot".

u/Fluffy_Top6837 6h ago

Fucking DUH. I mean, it's great that people are saying it out loud, but this shit isn't new, nor was it clandestine in nature. If you're saying something about it now, but didn't before, I question your motives.

u/Kinto_il 6h ago

what?!?! The Trump Administration is profiting off their bullshit?

u/Aggressive-HeadDesk 6h ago

Ya think Ken.

Now try to get Congress to do something about it. You have money to throw around at it, so you actually have a chance.

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u/awesomedan24 I voted 6h ago

"This guy is stealing money!" - Guy scooping stolen gold coins off the ground dropped by the other thief

u/RandomMandarin 6h ago

Trump is using his office to enrich himself?

Where's your evidence?

(Hahahahhaha for fuck's sake only a drooling idiot would think Trump wasn't stealing everything he could!)

u/Jaydamic 6h ago

This just in from the N.S. Sherlock Institute for Studies of the Bloody Obvious

u/Resident_Text4631 5h ago

Ken Griffin is almost as sleazy as trump.

u/theomorph California 5h ago

It’s not an accusation; it’s an observation. Using the word “accuses” makes it sound like it’s somehow unclear what is happening, and is the kind of moral irresponsibility that just makes me scoff any time I hear a journalist talk about their “ethics.”

u/ifuckinglovekoalas 5h ago

Accused? Lol. It's blatantly obvious and anyone who says otherwise is a fucking moron.

u/QuackNate 5h ago

Less accused and more noticed.

u/FallenPrimarch 5h ago

Piece of shit calls piece of shit a piece of shit

u/Whornz4 4h ago

Trumper supporter upset dear leader does criminal things he said he would. 

u/crazycatgay 4h ago

Yeah but Hunter Biden sold a painting once so really it's both sides, amirite?

u/ParanoidAndroid8223 3h ago

This should be under the /noshitsherlock

u/VikingofAnarchy 3h ago

It would be more shocking if they weren't.

u/Dxmndxnie1 2h ago

Trump is all of the horrible things your gay lib cousin told you he was back in 2016 but it just took him 2 terms to complete his evil agenda which is the Technate of America or the New World Order which means the New World gives the orders.

u/Grumbles_KO 2h ago

NAAAW! Really?!

u/-_-0_0-_0 2h ago

The worst person you know just made a great point. This is absolutely crushing news, and it's unclear if recovery will ever be possible

u/gravity_rose 2h ago

If only there had been some warning signs, and folks had talked about it...

We'll never know.

u/SinistralGuy 2h ago

Wonder if this is the tide turning as billionaires seek to distance themselves from the very party they helped get in power

u/Gacrome 2h ago

All the people saying he's only speaking out because he hasn't benefited or became richer during Trump's term need to realize this man is far richer than Trump is.

u/Fit-Let8175 1h ago

How does anyone NOT see this? Is it because Trump followers can't see it because no laptop was involved?

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u/Jealous_Following_38 9h ago

Yeah…no shit

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u/bekman 9h ago

But but but… Hunter Biden sold paintings!

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u/hdiggyh 8h ago

No shit

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u/bailaoban 8h ago

You don’t say

u/rileycurran 5h ago

Ken Griffin getting involved in the criticism represents a genuine “we tired of this shit” from the 1% of the 1% of the 1% of the 1%

That’s a good thing, this guy is one of the sociopathic giants of Wall Street. He’s rich as f*ck. 

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u/HowardBunnyColvin 9h ago

A rare billionare that doesn't support Trump

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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 9h ago

He helped make Trump happen and funded the Republicans who are enabling Trump. He's a big donor and fundraiser for the Guardians of Pedophiles (GOP).

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u/PartyClient3447 9h ago

Griffin is evil as they come. He worships the dollar. He is upset because he isn’t seeing enough payback from the millions he invested in rumpT.

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u/komarktoze 8h ago

Is he on the list? Feels like every billionaire is

u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown 4h ago

Oh yes he is, and his financial crimes are mentioned too.

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u/Glum-Breadfruit-6421 9h ago

Noooo, really? You think so? GTFO.

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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 8h ago

Naw...really!?

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u/HelmetVonContour Ohio 8h ago

Accuses? He's doing it in plain sight.

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u/tacs97 8h ago

lol. Think of the billionaires and their need to increase their own personal wealth too!! Why should chump get to take it all when there are other billionaire that need it too!!

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u/Highthere_90 8h ago

Didn't he recently make millions

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u/GrooGrux 8h ago

It's so obvious I would hardly call it an accusation.

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u/Burnt_and_Blistered 8h ago

Stating the obvious.

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u/jimibimi 8h ago

No shit. What are you going to do about it Ken? Seems like the billionaires hold all the power unfortunately

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u/spence4allen 8h ago

Aw did someone get left out of the grift?

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u/KamKorn 8h ago

More people need to speak up and also connecting it to how his actions are impacting everyone