Hey gang, it’s me, Dr.Steve, and we got a story today that perfectly captures everything broken about power in Washington DC.
So, a US special forces soldier, Ganon Van Djk was reportedly involved in a covert operation targeting Nicholas Maduro.
And now, I kid you not, now he’s facing decades in prison.
I’m not talking Maduro, right? I’m talking about this special operation agent here.
Now, not for the mission, obviously, but because prosecutors say he used classified information to place bets on the outcome of that mission and he ended up making $400,000.
So, federal prosecutors are claiming that he placed those wagers through prediction markets before the news became public.
And now he could actually be looking at up to 60 years behind bars.
Now we have a clip of this.
Take a look.
A story just came out before the show came on about one of the guys they sent in to grab Maduro out of Venezuela actually bet on that and made $400,000 and the DOJ has now arrested him.
One of one of the one of the guys that went into Venezuela to do that operation back in December.
Yeah.
So, I again, the reason I wanted to talk about that is because here you have an example of the DOJ saying, you know, this is not fair.
Um, we’re going to go and we’re going to throw the book at this guy, right? Um, I’m not necessarily saying what he did is right.
However, every single day in Congress, you have multiple members of Congress that are enga engaging in insider trading.
Um, we had a an actual ban on this that we pressured leadership to bring to the floor and we’re going to get a vote on it.
But Hakee Jeff, okay, went and told the Democrats not to support this ban.
And we were receiving own pressure from our own leadership on pushing this forward.
And yet you have a member who went on this raid, which by the way, our military members don’t get paid a lot.
But the member that goes on this raid places a bet and yet he’s facing, I think, up to 50 or 60 years in prison.
So there is no double standard of justice in or there is no fair justice in this country if you have members of Congress getting away with it.
And this guy doing it every day.
So, and an unpopular take, um, I’m going to be asking for him to be pardoned.
I’m going to ask that he have to or they disgorge his profits and that he basically go back to the military because at the end of the day, again, we have proof of this happening every day.
Nancy Pelosi made 17,000% returns on her stock investments.
She’s not going to jail.
I I totally Democrats and Republicans, 600% non.
Yeah, they they and and that list when they show that list of the the most corrupt, everybody is making a fortune.
That’s a very that’s a multicolored list.
It’s red and it’s blue.
It’s it’s not this is not to any to any one party.
Now, just to be clear, you know, in fairness, if there was wrongdoing here, if he use classified information to make money, then fine, you know, uh, of course, investigate, prosecute, apply the law.
But if you think about it literally for just a few seconds, the utter hypocrisy surrounding this is astonishing.
And I’m going to show you an image in a moment that’s going to blow your mind.
Because while one soldier is getting the book thrown at him for allegedly making 400 grand off information the public didn’t have, members of Congress have been doing their own version of this for years.
They sit in closed-d dooror briefings.
They sit on defense committees.
They draft federal budgets.
All the while trading stocks in the very companies that are directly affected by their actions.
Seriously, it’s insane.
Members of Congress routinely outperform Wall Street every year.
And not by a little.
I mean, take a look at this.
This is the most recent congressional trading report.
These are the returns of members of Congress in 2025.
If you’re listening by way of our 20 million podcast downloads, it’s a list of congressman after congressman, senator after senator who’ve each outperformed warren Buffett.
They’ve outperformed hedge funds.
They’ve outperformed professional money managers.
Basically, everyone on Wall Street.
And the craziest part, nothing ever happens to them.
No fines, no prison, not even a slap on the wrist.
they face zero consequences.
Joining me now is my good friend Ross Given.
Ross is a 20-year market veteran.
He’s worked as a broker, fund manager, and vice president of investment management for JP Morgan Chase.
He’s also one of the leading authorities on insider trading, congressional trading, and how regular Americans can legally follow these money trails to profit themselves.
And Ross is hosting a free live training for my audience this Thursday, May 28th, 300 PM Eastern, where he’s going to show you how these insiders do it, where the trades are reported, and how regular people can legally and ethically piggyback on these moves.
Make sure to click the link in the description below or go to turley talksincider.
com to register.
It’s a free online event that you’re not going to want to miss.
Ross, my friend, welcome back.
Great to see you as always.
Same, Dr.
Steve.
Always good to see you.
It’s always good.
Like I say to you every time I chat with you.
Uh I I I partially mean that.
The other part of me, my blood pressure goes up.
You get me really upset, but you always make me feel better at the end because you turn the lemons into lemonade.
I got to tell you that.
That’s that’s what makes you so awesome.
I did want to talk with you uh because you you are the expert on this stuff.
you’ve been tracking their trades for years.
Uh what are your thoughts on this uh soldiers alleged bet? Well, I think you nailed it with the hypocrisy claim, right? It’s just such an incredible double standard because Congress has no problem using insider information for their benefit.
When they’re knocking down, as you just showed, 70 and 80% annual returns in the stock market, there’s nothing to see there.
It’s all coincidence, right? But the fact that they would do this to one of our most elite warriors, a guy risking his life, makes a couple bucks on the side for taking out a narcode terrorist, they’re going to bury him into the jail.
And it’s it’s not that insider information is suddenly bad.
It’s just bad to them when the wrong person uses it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And and and this is I I think this is what drives so many people so crazy.
I don’t think anyone believes that what he did is right.
But to turn around to have these people make him public enemy number one after, you know, authorities turn a blind eye to Pelosi and her cronies for 20 years.
I mean, it’s just disgusting.
Now, most people have heard about insider trading in Congress, but I don’t think they actually realize how bad it is.
Can you can you walk us through this report? Yeah, I mean the numbers here are undeniable as they always are.
And if you remember, we talked last year, they did even better in 2024.
They did this in 23 22.
So it’s it’s not like they randomly got lucky last year.
They are consistently beating the market.
Pelosi, as we all know, is the poster child.
But it’s not just her.
It’s it’s Republicans, it’s Democrats, it’s it’s, you know, junior senators, and it’s bipartisan.
It is the one issue they can agree on.
They love cheating the stock market.
Uh but yeah, you look at this.
I mean, you’ve got members of Congress beating Buffets.
You got members doing double the market returns.
Some putting up returns better than any hedge fund in the world, Dr.
Steve, right? And we’re supposed to believe that we just happen to elect the best stock pickers on earth.
Give me a break.
If you can even balance a budget, they’re lawyers.
AOC is an ex bartender.
And they’re putting Warren and Buffett to shame.
So, uh, yeah, it’s it’s it’s rampant.
It’s obvious.
The only silver lining as I always tell you is that their trades are public record.
They are required to report them publicly.
Uh so what we do as you know we buy the same stocks.
We follow along and so I show people how to do this to take their advantage and and use it for ourselves.
Right.
Right.
And this is you know this is not something you just discovered.
I mean they’ve been doing this for years and you’ve been tracking decades.
I mean, Pelosi, like she started back in ’08, uh, you know, doing this, made what she made, $270 million in stock trades, and and they’re just so perfectly timed, like they’re not even trying.
She bought, uh, Nvidia call options, two weeks before she passed her bill, the Chips Act, that gave billions of dollars to Nvidia and the other semiconductor companies.
She bought Tesla right before Biden signed an executive order and the whole federal fleet turned to EVs.
Microsoft before 20 billion dollar army contracts like millions of millions of dollars on each one of these trades.
And again, she’s not the only one.
She’s just the most famous.
We see politicians and defense committees buy stock in the defense companies.
They’re awarding DoD contracts to right people with access to policy decisions buying into companies that directly benefit from those policies.
And when those stocks go up, they make a fortune.
Yeah.
It’s all a big coincidence, you know.
It just it’s ludicrous.
It is ludicrous.
It it’s insane.
Can you explain uh what is and isn’t uh insider trading? Like what’s the technical definition? because I I I don’t understand how this doesn’t qualify.
Uh and you know how they how they’re simply never prosecuted for this.
Yeah.
Well, it look it definitely qualifies.
They’re definitely breaking the law.
It’s it’s textbook insider trading.
But this is something that’s very hard to prosecute, especially prosecuting a sitting member of Congress because you would have to prove that they not only knew private information, but that it was their intent to profit off of that information.
And these guys have, you know, layers of protection.
Oh, it’s my investment guy.
Oh, it’s this.
Oh, it’s it’s whatever.
And and you know, look, Congress is not the best and brightest.
Okay, we know that.
But they’re smart enough not to email their broker saying, “We’re about to sign a big DoD contract with Boeing.
Buy the stock.
It’s getting reported Tuesday at 3.
” Right? So, that’s what you would need essentially to to per to prosecute one of these people.
But the technical definition uh is using material non-public information to profit.
And you know, Congress really is just a tip of the iceberg.
These stories we hear about are politicians because politics is on 24/7.
But corporate insiders do it even more.
The CEOs, the CFOs, and they’re far better at it.
You think about the advantages they have.
And I know I’m not helping the crowd that thinks the stock market’s rigged, but think about what they’ve got.
I mean, you’ve got pharmaceutical executives that know how the drug trials are going.
They know when they’re about to get FDA approval.
You got tech insiders that know when the next AI model is getting released.
Every chief financial officer of every publicly traded company knows exactly what that earnings report is going to be in advance because they filled out the earnings report, right? Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And yet they’re free to buy and sell their own stock.
the the silver lining.
They’re they too are required to report these trades and they got to do it inside of two days.
So like when they’re loading up on Tuesday, you see it usually Wednesday.
Yeah.
Um and we just follow along.
And we’ve been doing this for almost a decade.
I mean, we bought stocks that have gone up like 20fold just following these insider trades.
Dang.
Dang.
Absolutely stunning.
you know, um, we’ve talked about this before and and I’m glad I’m so glad you’re doing another one of your free training events because people should at the very least know where to find this public information.
They they they should have the option of using it for themselves.
Um, the and that’s again that’s what I love about it.
It’s just when all said and done, you’re giving the information that’s already out there and then consolidating it for everyone to to be able to use and easily and understand and benefit from.
Now, there was uh to my knowledge, there was a bill to actually ban congressional stock trading.
Uh Representative Anna Paulina Luna uh very popular on this channel.
She she’s talked about it for months like it was it looked like it was a sure thing, but it seems to have stalled.
Do you have any information on that? Of course it stalls.
They always do.
This is, as you know, the latest bid to to ban insider trading.
They’re all very confident because all their colleagues are going, “Yeah, yeah.
” They get on, they get in front of a camera and we need to ban this.
We need to ban this.
And it’s time to vote.
It doesn’t happen.
They never passed.
They never will.
I mean, the only one that ever passed was the Stock Act back in 2012, which they under Obama.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But they sold this as a fix to it.
But the penalty for violating the stock for insider trading is a $200 fine.
So you make five million bucks on a suspicious trade.
That’s that that’s not that’s a parking ticket, right? And and when the more serious bans come up, the leadership in Congress always finds a way to slow it down, to water it down, to bury it, to attach it to some nonsense bill nobody’s going to vote on because, you know, these people have to pass a bill banning the thing they do to make millions of dollars.
Right.
The last thing they want to do is is to cut off their gravy train.
Right.
Right.
It’s a business model when all said and done.
That’s right.
Yeah.
Uh, so one man allegedly makes 400 grand and faces decades in prison.
Congress makes literally millions if you’re the if you’re Pelosi hundreds of millions and gets a slap on the wrist if that.
Right.
Not even that.
Right.
Yeah.
And that’s why as you know you know I mean this Morgan better than anybody.
Everyone is so fed up with politics with politicians and and like you said I’m not defending using classified military intel to place.
Nobody’s saying it’s the right thing to do.
What I’m saying is if the standard is you cannot use private government information to enrich yourself, that should apply to everybody.
And if you’re going to prosecute somebody, how about the the career politician who’s been living off the taxpayer for three decades, not the black ops guy risking his life to to black a narco terrorist in the middle of the right night.
Right? So, you know, you can’t just apply the rules to soldiers or to citizens or to people outside the club.
It needs to apply to Congress, too.
And until politicians suddenly grow a conscience, and I’m not holding my breath on that one.
I’m just going to keep following their trades, right? Because I think I think it’s the least they could do.
They take 37% of you’re in my labor.
They either give it away or they siphon it off to themselves.
Throwing us a few stock tips is the absolute minimum I think they can do.
And you know, look, if they’re making money off this stuff, I’m not saying it’s right what they’re doing.
But what we’re doing is not unethical.
We’re not doing anything illegal.
We’re following the publicly disclosed stock trades of our government leaders and top corporate executives.
They’re making money.
So should you.
So everybody watching this, join me on Thursday.
It’s May 28th at 3:00 Eastern.
It’s an hour.
It’s online.
It’s 100% free.
I’ll show you everything and how to profit off this stuff yourself.
Yeah.
And it’s great.
I’ve been in a number of Ross’ trainings and they’re and they’re just phenomenal.
But I but I do I do think that’s the part to focus on, right? Instead of just being outraged.
Don’t get mad.
Get even as it were.
Yeah.
And look, they didn’t consult me and you when they when they wrote these laws, right? The the this is the game board.
We got set in.
We have to play by the rules of the game.
If you want to stand out there on the street and hold your picket sign, knock yourself out.
You’re not going to change anything.
Okay? Congressional trades are reported publicly.
Corporate insider trades are reported publicly.
CEOs, CFOs, VPs, they all have to file with the SEC when they buy or sell stock.
You can see them almost instantly.
And if when you see these just absolute obvious opportunities, the top executives, multiple board members, top politicians, all buying the same stock out of nowhere with their own money.
when when half the members of the military subcommittee are all buying the same defense stock, pay attention, right? Piggyback their trade.
And so that’s what I’m going to show uh all your viewers on Thursday.
So again, click that link to register.
I forgot to mention, we are also sending out our most recent uh stock pick to everybody who registers.
Even if you can’t come, you’ll get it instantly over email.
So you’ll see what insiders are buying, you know, how to keep risk low, what’s happening with the stock.
So hopefully you make some money on it, but I want you to see what’s available.
Uh, and again, you’re not breaking the law.
You’re not getting any secret tips.
You’re you’re looking at public filings on federal websites that are hiding in plain sight.
We’re just filtering it down to the more obvious stuff.
Yeah.
Could do you mind uh giving us just even right now give us an example of that? Yeah.
So um first one that comes to mind is a little uh medical company we bought.
Uh we saw the CEO, the CFO, the chairman, multiple executives all started buying big like six and seven figure purchase a piece.
Wow.
Okay.
And so we f a couple months later the stock was was bought out like two months.
It jumped 78%.
We did another one called Perspective Therapeutics.
Nobody’s it was a 40 cent stock.
We’re not talking about Nvidia.
This is like off the radar stuff, right? And they’re running these big drug trials.
They’re expected to release the results any day.
And then suddenly in a week the CEO, the CFO, the VP, the board, the chief medical officer, like they’re just all buying it up.
And so again, we fought along.
In fact, this was the one of the trades a couple years ago we gave away for free to your viewers on that training event.
And look at this.
Went up 300%.
Dang.
In just four months on the political side, this was Pelos’s last trade, Tempest AI.
Yeah.
I I I mean we we we I did a deep dive on this in our research.
Turns out she used to work very closely with one of the top executives of this company.
Wow.
What a coincidence that is.
Right.
Right.
Exactly.
I mean it tripled in a month, you know.
So, uh listen, there’s multiple ways to skin the cat, but I I think tracking insider trades is probably the closest thing to a legal cheat sheet uh in the stock market.
So, again, Thursday, May 28th at three, uh I’ll show you everything.
just click that link or go to turley talksincidertrading.
com uh and again if you can’t even attend live click that link we’ll send you the recording and all that uh most recent trade recommendation but I hope you come yeah that’s it’s so awesome and and gang I got to tell you you I like I said I’ve seen Ross teach this stuff it’s extremely eyeopening it’s a way for again it’s a way for regular Americans to benefit from this corruption but in a completely legal and ethical manner so don’t wait register Now, again, it’s Thursday, May 28th at 300 p.
m.
Eastern.
The link is in the description, and I hope to see you all there.
I can assure you that you will not be disappointed.
Ross, oh, it’s a you see see how uh lemonady, what’s the term? How le you got you got to drop the bomb and then soften the blow.
That’s That’s it.
Drop the bomb and soften the blow.
And that’s right.
Little tip for anybody ever got to deliver bad news.
Don’t try to creep your way in there.
Just I quit.
Here’s what’s happening and just tear off the band.
That’s right.
And and that’s the be again what you show.
It’s all public knowledge.
It’s all out there in the internet and you show everyone where to get it and how to do it.
It’s awesome.
So don’t get mad gang.
Get even.
And that’s what Ross helps us to do every time.
Thanks so much, Ross, for being with us.
Hey, always a pleasure.
