Dan Crenshaw on Banning Members of Congress from Stock Trading: ‘How About We Don’t Make Any Money Either’

UNGAR-SARGON: “Would you vote for a ban on Congress members trading stocks?”
Crenshaw: “Yeah, I mean, this is like number 1000 on my priority list of things to care about. This is one of those stupid things that I’ve been dragged through the mud on. You know how many — how much f**king money I’ve ever had in the stock market? About $20,000. And I’ve been dragged through the mud on this as if, like, there’s some insider trading. I sent a — I just sent a letter to Fox News, you know, a threatening letter from my lawyers, threatening them with defamation, because they — because Jesse Watters had basically insinuated that I was insider-trading. Of course, that’s not true. You’d be more surprised how much little information we have. This is one of those bills that, like, some — people support it, yeah, sure, okay, who cares? Because I don’t have anything in the market anyway. Are there a couple cases, like wherein Nancy Pelosi has some very suspicious timing of all trades? Yeah, that happens, but nobody else can point any other examples out. So, sure, yeah, why not? Don’t let us trade stocks. How about — we’ll just keep whipping ourselves. How about we don’t make any money either? How about, like, just cut our paychecks? I haven’t gotten a pay raise since 2008, even a cola increase. So — actually, no, this is a great idea: let’s make Congress a place where only the millionaires can actually afford to do the job. This is a wonderful idea. Let’s just keep — let’s just keep doing that, because some — there’s always some member, right, who, like, senses the populist energy and then mirrors it believing that this is what’s gonna help me connect with the people, because whether the people want — well, I mean, they want an easy button. ‘All my problems will be solved if there’s no stock trading. All my problems will be solved if there’s term limits.’ Yeah. But if you think about any of these things for five whole minutes, you know, you might quickly come to a different conclusion. Now, again, would I vote for it? Yeah, sure, who cares? Who cares? It doesn’t matter to me because I don’t have any f**king money to put in the stock market.”