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Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE pursued a $220 million Taser contract with the same company. Critics flag potential conflict of interest and self-dealing.
Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million in Axon stock before ICE pursued a $220 million contract with the same company to supply Tasers. The timing is tight enough to notice. A few weeks elapsed between the purchase and the ICE deal proposal. Axon is the dominant supplier in this space, so there's a legitimate business rationale for the contract—but the stock purchase beforehand creates an obvious appearance problem.
This is textbook self-dealing: the president profits from a government contract awarded on his watch to a company he just invested in. Conflict-of-interest rules exist precisely to prevent this optic. Even if the contract was competitively bid and legitimate, the stock purchase made it look like personal profit motive influenced procurement. Critics flagged it immediately because it's visible and straightforward—you can see the timeline and the dollar amounts.
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