Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has piled into the former president's social media platform, it emerged on Wednesday, loading up with as much as $50,000 worth of shares in the company linked to the project.
Last week Trump unveiled his plan for Truth Social, a social media platform along with a streaming service, web services and payment processing companies.
Under the proposals, his Trump Media & Technology Group will merge with the publicly listed Digital World Acquisition Corp.
Greene, a Republican with a taste for sharing conspiracy theories, bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of shares in Digital World Acquisition Corp. as their price surged on Friday, according to a financial disclosure filed on Tuesday.
It does not indicate how much she paid. But she bought them on a day when their price hit $175 - or more than 1,600 percent more than their price two days earlier - before falling back to about $68 on Wednesday afternoon.
'This transaction was reported in compliance with House rules and provides all required details about the transaction,' Greene's office said in a statement to FOX Business.
Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has piled into the former president's social media platform, it emerged on Wednesday, loading up with as much as $50,000 worth of shares in the company linked to the project.
A financial filing shows the Greene spent between $15,000 and $50,000 on the stock
Greene has played down the events of Jan. 6, when the former president's supporters stormed Congress, as 'just a riot' and backed Trump’s unfounded claims that last year's election was stolen.
Trump has been barred from Twitter and Facebook ever since.
He finally unveiled his alternative last week.
A new Morning Consult poll found that a majority of Republican say they plan to use his Truth Social platform.
It reported that some 63 percent of party supporters said they would use it at least some of the time, indicating his continuing hold on the G.O.P. - with 15 percent saying they would use it a lot.
On Tuesday, he claimed he was 'the only person in America' equipped to challenge what he described as Big Tech 'censorship.'
'The more I looked into this problem, the more I realized that to restore free speech, a major new platform would have to enter the market, with an ironclad commitment to protecting vigorous debate from all sides,' Trump said.
He added that any plan that's
