Raskin Launches Probe of Scheme to Sell Insider Access to Trump Truth Social Posts

Photo: Jamie Raskin. Photo credit: Maryland GovPics via Flickr. CC BY 4.0 (no modifications). Article by Jessica Corbett. Common Dreams – July 31, 2026.

“Are you helping the president sell people advance access to market-moving information?” That’s the opening line of a Thursday letter that US House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sent to Kevin McGurn, interim CEO of President Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) Corp. TMTG runs Trump’s Truth Social platform and earlier this month announced plans to launch “Truth API” by August 1. API, or application programming interface, lets software applications talk to each other. Critics have warned that the new endeavor will give Wall Street firms faster access to posts by the president and other top accounts. […]

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