The president’s family says his stock purchases are automatically timed, but recent acquisitions of the computer company’s shares raise questions.
President Trump earlier this year purchased more than $1 million in the stock of Dell Technologies, a transaction that is drawing scrutiny after the Pentagon this week announced a $9.7 billion contract with the Texas-based computer company.
The sequence of events illustrates the complications that emerge when a sitting president continues, even if through financial advisers, to buy and sell publicly traded stocks like Dell.
In the first three months of this year, Mr. Trump’s investment portfolio executed more than 3,600 trades, a mandatory disclosure form shows, buying and selling shares in big banks, manufacturers and tech giants, among other companies.
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