Former President Donald Trump said Thursday he believes Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “should be prosecuted” over her husband’s Visa stock trades ahead of a Justice Department lawsuit against the credit card giant.
“Nancy Pelosi has a little problem because her husband sold their Visa stock – they had a lot of Visa stock – one day before it was announced that Visa is being sued by the Department of Justice,” the GOP nominee said during a press conference at Trump Tower in New York.
The former House speaker’s husband, Paul Pelosi, unloaded 2,000 shares of Visa stock worth between $500,000 and $1 million on July 1, financial disclosures show.
On Tuesday, less than three months after the massive transaction, Visa was hit with a DOJ lawsuit alleging that the company illegally monopolized the debit card market.
Trump, 78, suggested that Nancy was aware of the looming lawsuit and tipped off Paul before he dumped the stock.
“Think of that. Nancy Pelosi sold vast amounts of Visa stock one day before the big lawsuit that we all read about a few days ago,” he said.
“You think it was luck? I don’t.”
“She should be prosecuted,” Trump declared. “Nancy Pelosi should be prosecuted for that.”
A spokesperson for the 84-year-old congresswoman did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
At the time Paul sold the Visa stock, there was no public indication that the antitrust lawsuit against the company was imminent.
Shares of Visa closed down 5.5% the day the lawsuit was announced.
Paul, who survived a vicious hammer attack inside the couple’s San Francisco home two years ago, is a venture capitalist and real estate investor.
“Speaker Pelosi does not own any stocks, and she has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions,” a spokesperson for Nancy told The Post earlier this week.
