Liberal newspapers are having themselves quite a week. First the Washington Post went after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget plan, saying ‘Chicago has lost its mind’ and now the New York Times is going after Nancy Pelosi over her record on stock trades.
The paper said that this issue leaves an ‘asterisk’ on Pelosi’s legacy. It notes that Pelosi has become an incredibly wealthy woman through stock trades and once again raises questions about how she di it. Pelosi has often been accused of using inside information to benefit herself.
She is certainly walking away from her ‘public service’ career as a very wealthy woman.
The NY Times piece is behind a paywall but FOX News has details:
Pelosi perceived as ‘on the wrong side’ over congressional stock trading as career nears end: NY Times
The New York Times called out former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in a Monday piece, arguing she’s ending her career with an “asterisk” due to her stance on congressional stock trading.
While Pelosi, who’s retiring in 2027 after 40 years in Congress, will leave office as the most powerful woman in American political history, “the widespread perception that she was on the wrong side of the debate over congressional stock trading, and personally benefited from the practice, has put an asterisk on that legacy,” the Times reported.
Pelosi does not personally own or trade stocks, but her husband, venture capitalist, Paul Pelosi, actively does. They have grown exponentially wealthier amid her time in office, a correlation that has raised eyebrows on both sides of politics. Critics argue that they have benefited from essentially having insider knowledge through her time as an influential politician.
As bipartisan fervor has grown to prevent congressional stock trading, Pelosi “failed to appreciate the groundswell of support for banning the practice, refusing to give an inch amid GOP accusations that she was corrupt,” the Times reported.
Senator Josh Hawley appeared on Watters’ World last night and talked about this, and about how Pelosi blocked efforts to rein in stock trading practices in Congress. Watch:
Nancy Pelosi is the poster child for insider trading
When I was first passing stock trading bans through Congress, she blocked them at every turn.
That’s why I named my bill the PELOSI Act – let’s ban congressional stock trading in her honor
pic.twitter.com/ErD10a7XdQ— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) December 17, 2025
This is something Nancy Pelosi will definitely be remembered for. She probably didn’t plan for that, but it’s reality.
