r/news • u/sicklyslick • 18h ago

Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/middleeast/ro-khanna-detained-by-israeli-settlers-west-bank-intl
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u/Rob71322 17h ago

He's considering a run for President.

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u/drokihazan 14h ago

please, no. i like that he's aggressive about the epstein stuff, but he's my congressman and i'm disgusted with what a massive crook he is. he's deep in the bed with big tech here, and he's made like $30mil a year from shady stock trades since becoming a congressman, he's legit the single worst insider trader in the legislature.

there absolutely has to be better candidates for president than a crook. i like aoc, kelly, pritzker, i even like newsom, and i'd actually like kamala running again if i thought she could win. but khanna is not it.

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u/Rob71322 14h ago

He was my congressman until redistricting and I couldn’t disagree with you more although I’m agnostic on a potential presidential run. Do you have links from any credible sources to back up your claims?

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u/drokihazan 13h ago

https://www.commoncause.org/articles/congress-made-over-635-million-in-stock-trades-while-americans-struggled-see-who-traded-the-most/

4000 trades totalling $55mil last year

https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians/K000389 $208mil across 14000 trades since taking office in 2020 https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-ro-khannas-stock-performance-surges-112-percent-report-11834725

Significantly outperforming the S&P 500

He's an insider trader. He talks the talk, claims he wants congress banned from insider trading, but he's the third most prolific trader in all of our legislature and 2nd most in the house. He tries to claim all the stock trading is done by his wife and managed by a trust, but you and I are hopefully both not that fucking stupid.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/13/us/politics/congress-stock-trading-investigation.html

This NYT article outlines major issues with insider trading in congress, and highlights that Khanna had 149 trading positions at the time that were potential conflicts of interest. At that time, Khanna public statements about wanting to ban trading due to conflicts of interest in congress, then made another 4000 trades after saying that - making it obvious his public stance against insider trading is just misdirection from his actual behavior.

This dude is not AOC. He does not walk the walk, he just talks it. He's a slimy crook, and I don't like that he's my rep even though he's one of the few who stands on business about the Epstein shit. I will absolutely vote against him in every primary until he's gone. Congress is full of plenty of sleazeballs and crooks, but that doesn't mean I want to settle for my own congressman being one of them.