U.S. President Donald Trump bought at least $82 million in corporate and municipal bonds from late August to early October including new investments in sectors benefiting from his policies, financial disclosures made public on Saturday showed.
According to the forms released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Trump carried out more than 175 financial purchases from Aug. 28 through Oct. 2. The disclosures, made under a 1978 transparency law called the Ethics in Government Act, do not list exact amounts for each purchase, only providing a broad range.
The maximum total value of the bond purchases exceeded $337 million, according to the filings.
Most of the assets listed in Saturday's disclosures consist of bonds issued by municipalities, states, counties, school districts and othe

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