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BREAKING: Kevin Hern has announced he is going to run for speaker of the House after Jim Jordan's attempt failed.

Kevin Hern currently is the Congressman who benefits most from the current wars in Ukraine and Israel, per his stock holdings.

Here are more of his unusual trades: Image
Kevin Hern has a tendency of buying military companies before news.

For example, Rep. Kevin Hern bought Lockheed Martin stocks back in August 2021.

He bought another $100k in $LMT just 2 weeks before Lockheed Martin won the $10.9 billion Air Force contract.
House Republican Kevin Hern, who sat on the Committee on Ways and Means, bought and sold FS Investments, $FSK.

$FSK lobbied Congress on “Taxation/Internal Revenue Code”, and Hern supported their efforts.

Rep. Hern was up 33.2% at the time of selling.
Kevin Hern also bought $RTX, Raytheon, a weapons manufacturer, last month, before the start of the Middle East Conflict with Israel and Gaza.

He also bought four energy stocks as well, $NEE, $XOM, $PXD, and $DVN, war beneficiaries.
Kevin Hern, like numerous in Congress, have financial conflicts beyond their stock holdings.

They also receive tons of lobbying from military companies and PAC donations.

Dark money is difficult to track.

But you can see more at unusualwhales.com/politics

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Oct 14
JUST IN: Senator Thomas Carper profited on his shorts on the US Economy.

He has been one of the best traders in office for 40 years.

So much so, that he became a multimillionaire many times over on a modest federal salary.

Seriously, take a look: Image
Thomas Carper bought 30k in $PSQ, an ultrashort $QQQ index, on July 13 2023.

He hedged/shorted in the past with great results with $HDGE, $SH & $PSQ.

He got out of his positions in August/September, as the market fell and he sold for a cool +15%.
Before the vaccines were announced, Carper held $RMD, $APO, and $OHI.

On 07/09 he sold his positions in $RMD, $APO, $OHI.

Two weeks later, $RMD drops 15% on vaccine news (no need for ventilators), $APO / $OHI 10-20% over 3 months.

Now all down significantly since then.
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Oct 2
JUST IN: Senator Thomas Carper profited on his shorts on the US Economy.

He has been one of the best traders in office for 40 years.

So much so, that he became a multimillionaire many times over on a modest federal salary.

Seriously, take a look: Image
Thomas Carper bought 30k in $PSQ, an ultrashort $QQQ index, on July 13 2023.

He hedged/shorted in the past with great results with $HDGE, $SH & $PSQ.

He got out of his positions in August/September, as the market fell and he sold for a cool +15%.
Before the vaccines were announced, Carper held $RMD, $APO, and $OHI.

On 07/09 he sold his positions in $RMD, $APO, $OHI.

Two weeks later, $RMD drops 15% on vaccine news (no need for ventilators), $APO / $OHI 10-20% over 3 months.

Now all down significantly since then.
Read 11 tweets
Sep 25
BREAKING: Sen. Bob Menendez has just said he will not resign from Congress.

But want to know something insane?

Besides being indicted now for accepting gold bars, a luxury car and thousands of dollars to help Egypt, this isn’t his first indictment.

Let’s dig in: Image
In 2017 he was indicted for accepting multiple bribes on behalf of friends, including private jets, thousands of dollars, and more.

He was charged on 18-count indictment.

He made false statements on Senate financial disclosures.

There was a mistrial, and he wasn't retried.
He stayed in power after the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of public corruption.

The Supreme Court, many years later, is also embroiled in its own corruption and bribery cases.
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Aug 29
This year, Senator Thomas Carper bought 30k in $PSQ, an ultrashort $QQQ index.

He's been in office for 40 years & shorted US markets many times.

In that time he became a multimillionaire multiple times.

In fact, he is one of the best Congress traders.

Seriously take a look: Image
Before the vaccines were announced, Carper held $RMD, $APO, and $OHI.

On 07/09 he sold his positions in $RMD, $APO, $OHI.

Two weeks later, $RMD drops 15% on vaccine news (no need for ventilators), $APO / $OHI 10-20% over 3 months.

Now all down significantly since then.
Senator Thomas Carper bought up to $110k in Ranger Equity Bear Bear ETF, $HDGE, as well as $SH, and $PSQ, more short ETFs.

He sat on the Senate Finance Committee.

As a politician, he was actively shorting the US, and was up significantly, selling all three for large gains.
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Aug 10
Capri, $CPRI, is up +56% after acquisition news.

Did someone know? Yup.

Someone put $700k in $CPRI 42.5c 9 expiring next month, bought last Friday/Monday at .87 and .80 respectively. CPRI is generally illiquid.

The closed at +1000% return, turning $700k into ~$10 million. Image
Could you have followed it on unusual whales? Probably.

Say you looked at opening flow on $CPRI, interested due to upcoming earnings. You would have seen its net flow, elevated call side, puts being sold since Aug 3.

The OTM skew was heavily call side outside of normal vol. Image
What is more weird is that $CPRI gets close to zero options activity.

Premiums and volumes jumped since Aug 3.

That would have raised suspicion. If you looked at the chain, you would have seen people hitting $42.5 and $45 calls since last month, expiring in Sept.

Weird... Image
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Aug 4
Dianne Feinstein, 90, has now ceded power of attorney to daughter, but still serves in Congress, per NYP.

Feinstein has incredibly unusual trades over 30 years in Congress.

In that time her net worth is up over $200 million.

Let's look at some of her unusual trades: Image
Feinstein reportedly attended Covid hearings by the CDC in early Jan 2020.

Afterwards, her husband sold between $1.5 & $6 million in stock Allogene Therapeutics amongst others.

The stock market collapsed shortly afterwards.

Feinstein was cleared by the DOJ.
In April 2018, Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate's Judiciary Committee, which Feinstein sat on.

But in Jan 2018, Feinstein’s husband bought $250,000 Facebook stock.

Only in May 2018 did Feinstein disclose the $META purchase. Feinstein praised $META in the hearing.
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