“In one move, $1.5 Billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.”

“$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again – a $1.5 BILLION BET. Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time. 5 minutes before Trump’s post" which announced a five-day pause on previously threatened energy infrastructure strikes in #Iran, indicating it appeared be a case of #insiderTrading.
https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill.com/homenews/senate/5798756-murphy-trump-oil-iran-insider-trading/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1

Murphy on ‘$1.5 BILLION’ stock trade before Trump Iran announcement: ‘Mind blowing corruption’

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday drew attention to an unusually large oil stock trade that occurred moments before President Trump announced a five-day pause on previously threatened energy in…

The Hill

While your 401Ks evaporate because of Trump’s War, you can rest assured that Trump’s family and rich friends are making a killing on the stock markets by buying stocks at discount prices based on insider information from the White House and from Trump himself.

#401k #trump #trumpwar #MAGA #insidertrading #republicans #economy #stockmarket #epstein #iran #news

All the speculation in this article about Trump's motivation for announcing the pause before he starts the full-scale war crimes seems way off base to me.

It's all discussed in terms of military objectives.

Trump doesn't have any military objectives. He doesn't give a flying fuck what happens in Iran.

It's all about moving markets up and down to give great #InsiderTrading opportunities.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2evg2m3ye2o

#IranWar #Corruption

Is Trump's pause on attacking Iranian energy for diplomacy or an escalation?

The US president's commitment to deadlines is fluid but he uses them for a purpose, writes the BBC's James Landale.

BBC News

"Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 social media post claiming that the war in Iran was winding down."

Reed McMaster offers a valuable list of MAGA commentators from Ben Shapiro and Nick Fuentes to Steve Bannon pressing this point.

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering #morality
/23

https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/right-wing-media-accused-trump-obvious-stock-market-manipulation

Right-wing media accused Trump of “obvious” stock market manipulation

Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 social media post claiming that the war in Iran was winding down. Additionally, oil and gas futures purchases spiked just before Trump’s announcement about a seemingly nonexistent “resolution” with Iran, leading some in right-wing media to suggest that people close to the president, or even within Trump’s administration, were guilty of insider trading. 

Media Matters for America

"There was no discernible reason for these sudden jumps occurring at 6:50 am, normally a fairly sleepy time for premarket trading. But when Trump’s 7:05 am announcement about all those productive conversations predictably drove oil prices down, and stocks rebounded, those 6:50 am traders made bank. In just a few moments, those anonymous and fortunate folks made roughly $580 million."

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #profiteering #morality
/19

"How else do you explain that about 15 minutes before Trump’s surprise announcement of how hunky dory talks were going, there was a sharp increase in purchases of stock market and oil futures?"

~ Lisa Needham

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
/18

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trumpism-death-of-truth

What do you do when you can't trust the government?

The haze of contradictions and confusion is a feature, not a bug.

Public Notice

"And like you can bet on preposterous, dystopian life and death things that like, of course, nobody should be able to gamble on. Right. Like, I think we all sort of understand that, like, this is a Black Mirror episode when we're gambling on like which, you know, part of Tehran is going to be bombed on what day."

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
/17

"The reason people are getting so upset about these markets and the reason that politicians now are introducing bills to rein them in is because you can gamble on Iranian missile strikes and, you know, how many deportations will take place in America and whether Gaza will experience a famine."

McKay Coppins

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
/16

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-america-learned-to-stop-worrying

How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gambling

McKay Coppins on his year of degenerate gambling.

The Bulwark

"On unregulated betting markets, people are setting themselves up to make millions if Trump re-escalates, wagering on the precise timing of a land-invasion of Iran."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering
/15

https://www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all-of-trumps-war-profiteering

Expose ALL Of Trump's War Profiteering

It can serve as a downpayment to the world on our commitment to restore accountable democracy to America.

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