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Trump’s top official profited from European bank bailouts
US Secretary of State for Commerce Wilbur Ross has become embroiled in allegations of ‘insider trading.’ SOLOMON HUGHES reports
US Secretary of State for Commerce Wilbur Ross

ONE of the top members of President Donald Trump’s government profited from the bailout of European banks. 

And an official report commissioned by MEPs says that Trump’s man profited unfairly out of the taxpayer-funded bailout, through what the US media says could amount to insider trading.

Wilbur Ross is Trump’s secretary of state for commerce. Before that he was a big money investor who specialised in making profit from “restructuring” failed companies. 

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