Rachel Maddow goes off on 'fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt' Trump scheme

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow went off on what she described as a "fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt" scheme that seems to have embroiled the president.

Maddow discussed President Donald Trump's recent financial disclosure during her opening segment on Monday and highlighted a startling pattern — several of Trump's stock trades coincided with a major policy announcement that moved markets. For instance, Maddow flagged a January trade in which Trump bought stock in a major microchip manufacturer about a week before he relaxed regulations allowing the company to do business in China.

She also noted that Trump told a crowd at one of his rallies to buy Dell stock just weeks after he purchased $9 million worth of shares. He's also boosted Palantir stock on his Truth Social account, a trade that also showed up in his disclosure form, Maddow added.

"He literally even posted the stock ticker abbreviation for Palantir right after he bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of their stock and got online to boost it, giving people the stock ticker abbreviation to make it easier for them to go buy some Palantir to boost the value of the stock he just bought," Maddow said. "This just appears to be fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt