President Trump isn’t holding back after what he sees as a stunning betrayal by one of his own. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley came under blistering fire Wednesday when he joined Democrats to shoot down an effort to investigate Nancy Pelosi’s decades of suspiciously lucrative stock trades.
The proposal—led by Florida Sen. Rick Scott—would’ve triggered a 25-year government review into the financial activities of Pelosi and her husband Paul. But during a heated Senate debate on a broader stock trading ban, Hawley voted against the amendment, siding with Democrats and sparking outrage from the GOP base.
Trump took to Truth Social to vent his frustration: “Why would one ‘Republican,’ Senator Josh Hawley from the Great State of Missouri, join with all of the Democrats to block a review… of Nancy Pelosi’s Stock Trading over the last 25 years?” He added that Hawley is being “used as a pawn” by Democrats, even though Trump previously helped get him elected—twice.
The stock trading ban bill itself has become a lightning rod. While it would prohibit congressional insider trading, it also limits the president’s ability to own or trade stocks—a detail that Scott and Trump both see as a thinly veiled attempt to target the current Commander-in-Chief.
“This bill is just an attack on the president,” Scott told the Daily Caller. “It allows the Democrats to attack him after Russiagate, special investigators, impeachments, and indictments.” According to Scott, the bill’s real aim is to give Democrats another tool to harass Trump with legal and financial probes.
Trump initially expressed openness to the bill’s concept but said he wanted to examine its fine print more closely. Speaking at a press conference, he said, “I like it conceptually,” but immediately pivoted to slamming Pelosi’s unmatched success in stock trading. “She has the highest return of anybody, practically, in the history of Wall Street… She buys stock and then the stock goes up after the announcement is made,” Trump said. “She ought to be investigated.”
Pelosi, perhaps sensing political cover, quickly endorsed the stock trading ban after Trump’s comments—something that didn’t go unnoticed by the former president. “I wonder why Hawley would pass a bill that Nancy Pelosi is in absolute love with,” Trump posted. “It’s a great Bill for her… but so bad for our Country!”
Hawley, defending his vote, told reporters he was still working to get the bill into a form that Trump would sign. “If the president says… I’m not comfortable with it as it’s written—we’re gonna have to change it,” he said.
But the damage may already be done. The populist senator, known for bucking the establishment, now finds himself under fire from the MAGA base and Trump himself—over a move that many see as a betrayal of the America First agenda.
Trump’s fury isn’t just about a single vote. It’s about loyalty, timing, and the perception that GOP leaders are once again bending to the will of the swamp—just when conservatives thought they were draining it.