Karoline Leavitt Reveals Josh Hawley Called President Trump After Pelosi Comments

After President Trump slammed Sen. Josh Hawley yesterday for blocking a review of Nancy Pelosi’s stock trading record, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just announced that the two have spoken to each other on the phone.

Leavitt said that Sen. Hawley called President Trump yesterday, but she did not provide many details of the phone call.

She also tore into Nancy Pelosi’s highly-suspicious stock trades and portfolio — which grew a whopping 70% just in 2024!

Watch here:

Full transcript:

Reporter: Have you talked to the President about his position on the stock trading ban built for Congress? He obviously had pretty loaded comments about Senator Hawley. There’s been reporting that they’ve since spoken. What is his position on the current status of that bill?

Leavitt: The President has spoken to Senator Hawley, who called him, and the President took that call. As the President said in the Roosevelt Room yesterday, conceptually, he, of course, supports the idea of ensuring that members of Congress and United States Senators, who are here for public service, cannot enrich themselves. And the reason that this idea to put a ban on stock trading for members of Congress is even a thing is because of Nancy Pelosi.

I mean, she is rightfully criticized because she makes, I think, $174,000 a year, yet she has a net worth of approximately $413 million in 2024 Nancy Pelosi’s stock portfolio—this was a fascinating statistic to me—grew 70% in one year in 2024, and her portfolio outperformed every single large hedge fund in that same year, and even more than doubled the returns of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

I think the President stands with the American people on this. He doesn’t want to see people like Nancy Pelosi enriching themselves off of public service and ripping off their constituents in the process. As for the mechanics of the legislation and how it will move forward, the White House continues to be in discussions with our friends on Capitol Hill.

Yesterday, President Trump unleashed on Sen. Hawley for joining Democrats to advance a bill that would ban members of Congress and their spouses, as well as the President and Vice President, from stock trading.

Now, you might be wondering: what’s so wrong about that bill? Isn’t banning Congress from stock trading a good thing?

Unequivocally, the answer is yes. However, the measure would block a review of Nancy Pelosi’ stock trading.

For the record, Pelosi has said she supports the bill (no wonder!)

Notably, Sen. Hawley had also renamed the bill from the PELOSI — Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments — Act to the HONEST Act in order to gain support from Democrats.

President Trump unloaded on Truth Social:

Why would one “Republican,” Senator Josh Hawley from the Great State of Missouri, join with all of the Democrats to block a Review, sponsored by Senator Rick Scott, and with the support of almost all other Republicans, of Nancy Pelosi’s Stock Trading over the last 25 years. The information was inappropriately released just minutes before the Vote — Very much like SABOTAGE! The Democrats, because of our tremendous ACHIEVEMENTS and SUCCESS, have been trying to “Target” me for a long period of time, and they’re using Josh Hawley, who I got elected TWICE, as a pawn to help them. I wonder why Hawley would pass a Bill that Nancy Pelosi is in absolute love with — He is playing right into the dirty hands of the Democrats. It’s a great Bill for her, and her “husband,” but so bad for our Country! I don’t think real Republicans want to see their President, who has had unprecedented success, TARGETED, because of the “whims” of a second-tier Senator named Josh Hawley!

However, it appears he and Sen. Hawley had a good talk afterwards.

For his part, Sen. Hawley says that he cleared up a miscommunication about the bill with President Trump on the phone.

CNN reported:

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley on Thursday dismissed a dustup with President Donald Trump over a stock trading bill to a misunderstanding, saying he’d spoken with the president in the hours after he dressed him down as a “second-tier senator” and the pair had a good conversation.

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Trump had gone after Hawley on Wednesday after he voted with Democrats to advance a bill that would ban stock trading for elected officials and mandate officials divest from their “financial instruments” upon the start of their next term. The pair smoothed things over later in the day, the Missouri Republican said.

Recounting his conversation with the president, Hawley told reporters: “He said, senators, I don’t know who, had called and told him yesterday afternoon that the bill had been changed at the last minute and would force him to sell all of his assets, sell Mar-a-Lago, sell his properties. So, I said, ‘Well, that’s just false. I mean, it explicitly exempts you and all your assets.’ So, we walked through that, and he was like, Oh, that is not what he had been told.”

“He said at the end, like, ‘Oh, OK, great. This is good,’ you know,” added Hawley, noting Trump emphasized that he does want to see a congressional stock trading ban pass.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Thursday that the president and Hawley had spoken, and said the president “supports the idea of ensuring that members of Congress and United States senators who are here for public service cannot enrich themselves.”