{"id":415103,"date":"2026-07-28T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415103\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:21:08","slug":"inside-information-scandals-sometimes-a-disgrace-sometimes-ok-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415103\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside information scandals sometimes a disgrace, sometimes OK \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were two examples in the July 17 newspaper of how a White House employee can profit from the questionable use of inside information.<\/p>\n<p>First, our president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com\/infinity\/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=5182bb9e-de58-4718-8949-4a55eddd8e2d&amp;share=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teleprompter operator bets<\/a> on how many times a word will appear in his boss\u2019s speech, and the president promptly dismisses him, calling his behavior a \u201cdisgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second, our president\u2019s media company announces it will <a href=\"https:\/\/enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com\/infinity\/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=65029aa9-6443-4f0e-bd7a-e89b1238ed61&amp;share=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sell early access<\/a> to his Truth Social posts so others can trade on this information. No White House mention of \u201cdisgrace\u201d on the latter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Mallen, Lake San Marcos\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were two examples in the July 17 newspaper of how a White House employee can profit from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-415103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}