Shareholder Spotlight : Liars Unite – McClain’s Greasy Hands on Cummins’ Rotten Roster

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Look, there are shareholders who snap up Cummins because they fancy the dividends, the engines, and that smug whiff of a quarterly earnings call. Then there are the bastards who buy in because they’re wired into the machine that drafts the rules, catches the whispers first, and still fancies a sly punt on the side. Rep. Lisa McClain? She’s firmly in the second camp. A politician with a Cummins itch. Not some faceless CEO or pension pot. A sitting Congress member who’s repeatedly “forgotten” to disclose her trades on time. That alone turns the cap table into a dimly lit crime scene, and it’s enough to make your blood boil.

At TCAP.blog, we couldn’t give a toss if she’s a charming dinner companion or a nightmare. This isn’t about personalities. It’s about the dodgy company Cummins keeps and the grubby hands clutching its shares. When your shareholder roster starts resembling a lobbyist’s black book crossed with a compliance officer’s fever dream, don’t act shocked when folks start questioning why the air still reeks of diesel. We’ve dug through the filings, the scandals, and the bullshit to lay this out plain, because transparency? That’s the only thing that cuts through this fog of self-serving crap.

Congress as a Side Hustle: The STOCK Act Farce

McClain’s racked up multiple STOCK Act violations in 2025 alone. That’s not rumour; that’s cold, hard filing fact. She’s disclosed hundreds of trades late – not a few absent-minded slips, but hundreds. It’s a volume that screams less “prudent investing” and more “day-trading addiction” from inside a chamber where the info flow is a bloody firehose.

The STOCK Act? It’s there precisely because lawmakers aren’t supposed to trade like they’re at a casino with tomorrow’s cards up their sleeve. It’s not about whether she “meant it”. It’s about Congress being the birthplace of market-shifting decisions, and the public being forced to swallow that the rule-makers aren’t quietly pocketing the gains. McClain’s response? The classic Washington shrug: Oops. Admin error. Won’t happen again.

That excuse is the political version of “the dog ate my homework”, spouted by someone gripping a Bloomberg terminal in one fist and a House badge in the other. It’s infuriating, it’s systemic, and it’s why trust in this lot is lower than a snake’s belly.

The Cummins Trades: A Symbol of Rotten Morals

And yeah, she’s a Cummins trader through and through. Disclosures peg her buying and selling Cummins Inc. (NYSE:CMI) shares in late October 2025, in those typical congressional brackets – $1,001 to $15,000 a pop. Not world-shaking sums? Sure, but that’s missing the forest for the trees. It binds her to a firm drowning in its own scandals, and it’s a perfect emblem of her dodgy morals – fingers dipped into a company knee-deep in deceit and environmental ruin.

At TCAP, we’ve been peeling back Cummins’ grimy layers for months: that emissions cheating fiasco netting a record $1.675 billion fine in 2023. They slapped defeat devices on nearly a million Ram trucks, skirting pollution rules, choking the air, and shafting the planet. Cummins coughed up for recalls and penalties, but the harm’s baked in. You reckon it couldn’t get much worse than greedy corporate pricks steering the ship? Then enter the one owner prospect that’s even more toxic: a fucking politician like McClain, blind-eyeing the fallout while fluffing her portfolio. It reeks, and we’re far from done excavating.

Cummins’ shareholder world isn’t just hedge funds and retirement pots. It pulls in elected officials who shape the very arena Cummins plays in, then slip into the stands with a wager. Cummins peddles “Destination Zero” greenwash while banking on diesel grift. The last thing it needs is pols treating its stock like a backroom perk. When lawmakers join your cap table, you’re not just flogging engines – you’re peddling access, sway, and a dash of untouchability. If we were left asking where the criminal prosecutions were after Emissionsgate, perhaps this goes some way to finding the answer.

Qatar Quagmire: Alleged Leaks and the Stink of Influence

If that doesn’t rile you, chew on this 2025 gem: McClain’s been slapped with accusations from far-right agitator Laura Loomer of leaking a congressional memo to Qatar’s embassy, right after footage surfaced of her hobnobbing with Qatari bigwigs at a July 4 bash. Loomer’s called it “treasonous”, painting McClain as a “pro-HAMAS” stooge given Qatar’s links to the group. Unproven? Absolutely, so allegedly all round. But the optics? They’re a gut-punch.

You don’t need to swallow Loomer’s theatrics to see the rot: a top pol under an influence cloud while juggling stocks in policy-sensitive firms. Even if it’s bollocks, it corrodes everything. It’s that age-old American decay – whispers of sway, cash chinking, everyone swearing it’s coincidence.

TCAP isn’t running a trial here. We’re spotlighting the cap table and yelling: This is who Cummins rubs shoulders with. A shareholder entangled in foreign intrigue allegations while failing basic transparency? It’s not just smoke; it’s the system winking at itself.

Rally Lies and Partisan Poison: The Broader Bullshit

McClain’s scandals don’t stop at trades and leaks. She’s got form for spewing whoppers, like that 2022 Trump rally where she claimed he “nabbed Osama bin Laden” (Obama’s gig), unemployment at 40-year highs under Biden (it was near lows), and Biden sparking new wars (none then). Fact-checkers shredded it, but she waved it off as an “honest mistake”. Honest? Bollocks – it’s calculated tripe to rile the mob.

She’s amplified Social Security nonsense in 2025, pushing fraud myths from coding glitches to justify cuts, all while her wealth swells. Twisted Biden’s “garbage” quip in 2024 to slag Trump fans, ignoring facts. Misled on her 2021 vote absence – COVID excuse while border-hopping with Trump. Objected to Biden’s win over debunked “irregularities”, fanning January 6 flames but later tutting at Trump mildly.

Her partisan scraps? Sponsored censuring Rep. Jamaal Bowman for a fire alarm pull in 2023, but silent on Trump’s scandals. Called out Maxine Waters on violence incitement while ignoring her side’s bile. Slammed Jasmine Crockett in 2025 over airline queue-jumping, milking it as power abuse.

Votes against Rescue Plan and Inflation Act? Shafted constituents while dismissing their “sob stories”. As antisemitism hearing chair, equated Gaza protests with Jew-hatred, stifling speech while pushing defunding. It’s all callous, hypocritical, and ties back: a pol like this on Cummins’ books? It screams why firms like them skate through scandals – the watchdogs are in on the feast.

Why This Matters to Cummins: The Ecosystem of Impunity

Cummins isn’t some lost pup; it’s a bloated manufacturer burnishing its halo while its gear and mates prop up the emissions racket. It banks on political winds: regs, handouts, procurement, green lanes broad as motorways.

A Congress member’s late trades aren’t quaint footnotes; they’re flares over the swamp. It shows Cummins’ pull snags the political elite. It shows the elite’s comfy dipping in. And it explains Cummins’ scandal survival – the room’s policers are munching from the trough.

This spotlight isn’t to demonise McClain personally. She’s a symptom. The tale’s Cummins’ shareholder web: folk and outfits propping a firm hawking diesel dreams as eco-salvation.

Cummins can’t shrug this as “normal investing”. If you’re posing as “Destination Zero”‘s grown-up, ditch shareholders treating disclosure like an afterthought. Because when your cap table hosts pols flouting basics, it’s not just diesel fumes – it’s the stench of a rigged game patting its own back behind locked doors.

Lee Thompson – Founder, The Cummins Accountability Project

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