Marjorie Taylor Greene makes perfectly timed suspicious tariff trade

Marjorie Taylor Greene has long been considered one of the worst stock traders on Capitol Hill. A change in administration seems to have brought a change in her fortunes as well.

Following the market-wide dip that ensued after the April 2 tariffs, Finbold’s congressional trading radar picked up on a number of trades made by the Georgia congresswoman.

The representative’s trades were quite suspicious — to use the most obvious example, her bet on discount retailer Dollar General (NYSE: DG) soared by 29% in a matter of days following the tariff announcement.

However, there’s one trade that stands apart from all the rest — Marjorie Taylor Greene’s sudden purchase of RH stock (NYSE: RH). Let us explain why this perfectly-timed tariff trade is the most suspicious one that MTG has made.

How did Marjorie Taylor Greene buy the bottom of this struggling stock?

We need to take a look at the bigger picture to get a sense of the congresswoman’s suddenly impeccable timing.

This is what the year-to-date (YTD) price chart of RH stock looks like.

The lowest point on this chart, when RH shares were changing hands at prices ranging from $123 to $154, was April 4. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll be using the stock’s price at close, $145.66.

That happens to be exactly the day that MTG bought RH stock — by press time, RH stock has seen prices increase to $172.46, and the representative’s investment has already netted her an 18.39% profit. Depending on how well she timed her trade, her return could be as high as 40.2%. The trade was even more profitable at yesterday’s $193.82 high — at which point the profit from a hypothetical sale would have been between 33.06% and 57.57%.

All in all, Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to almost perfectly catch a double-digit upswing in the price of a stock that is, even with the recent surge accounted for, down 56.18% since the start of the year.

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