Subject: Re: DJT up over 3 points on over 2 million
Buying shares of DJT could potentially allow for influence over Donald Trump in a few key ways

None of those would actually work.

Driving up the price of DJT stock only confers wealth to Trump if he sells his stock at the time they drive up the price. A "pump and dump" only works if you dump at the time the pump is working. That's hard to do. You can't permanently drive up the price of a stock through your own purchases - once you stop buying, it will revert to whatever the rest of the float is doing.

Putin (or other foreign investors, like a sovereign wealth fund) can't buy 35% of DJT without disclosing it. I mean, they probably can't buy that much anyway (Trump owns 60% of the shares). But if they go above 10%, they have to disclose.

And I think all Trump's extra shares bonuses have already occurred - IIRC, they were all measured before the lock-up period expired.

All of that is insanely complicated compared to just buying $100 million worth of ads on Truth Social, of which 60% of that value falls to Trump.