Tracking Trump's bond purchases this year

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President Donald Trump has bought hundreds of bonds since he took office in January, worth at least $103.7M in total, according to disclosures filed with the Office of Government Ethics.

The disclosures were for Trump's bond purchases this year through early August, totaling a little over 690 transactions. The amounts or prices for each transaction were not specified, as only broad ranges are required to be disclosed.

Trump bought [https://shorturl.at/a74Xy] corporate debt in tranches of at least $500,000 each from Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/QCOM]), Home Depot (NYSE:HD [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/HD]), UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/UNH]) and T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/TMUS]) in February. He also bought at least $250,000 of debt from Meta (NASDAQ:META [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/META]) in February.

These are in addition to purchases [https://shorturl.at/8UQgL] of various municipal bonds [https://shorturl.at/DOD5o] issued by local governments, airport authorities, gas districts and school boards.

According to Forbes, Trump's net worth stood at $5.5B as of this month. His business interests are currently managed by his sons Don Jr. and Eric Trump.

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