Seems like intentionally damaging the full faith & credit of the United States in order to do insider trading for the benefit of your political supporters could be an impeachable offense.
He told people to buy stocks only minutes before he announced the new policy of pausing tariffs for 90 days.
The Republican Party is using our government and US stock market to conduct the most massive insider trading & racketeering scheme in US history.
"Somebody just made BILLIONS off this tariff-based manipulation of the markets." Tristan Snell, prosecuter in the Trump U. fraud case
International security analyst: Trump Admin will "be investigated for market manipulation."
Cybercrime expert atty Jackie Singh: "pump & dump schemes were previously an exclusive realm of fraudsters, & considered prosecutable criminal activity"
History prof: "Trump's cronies are making millions from market manipulation & speculation"
https://www.alternet.org/insider-trading-trump/
After one of the best days on Wall Street since World War II, fueled by President Donald Trump and his team's conflicting messages and actions on tariffs, questions are swirling over possible insider trading, market manipulation, and "pump and dump" schemes.President Trump's announcement that he is ...
Reminds me so much of the Very Serious & Rational Men reassuring everyone during his Twitter purchase that Musk was 1) a business person with sane business reasons & also somehow 2) just a dumb-dumb.
One thing it DEFINITELY WASN'T - you paranoid & hysterical ladies - a non-economic move to achieve his right wing political goals.
Anyhoo.
I think the "Trump is just a dummy who knows nothing about the market" takes are lazy & encourage us to be lazy & let further harms pass by without action.
There are massive apparatuses with many people in them, that drive these market moves by the GOP who run the US govt now. It's not all being run by Trump. It's very naive to approach this with One Big Man theory.
Like, congrats Jon Favreau, you wrote a snarky post that reads well with your liberal readership.
“Art of the Deal: 1) Impose massive tariffs on nearly every country that crash the markets and create the conditions for global economic collapse 2) Make zero deals with zero countries 3) Pause tariffs 4) VICTORY!!”
Great, you can all clap each other on the back about how GOP idiots are being dumb.
It's true as far as it goes, but also shows you completely unprepared to do counter it.
I am glad some Very Serious Men are finally ringing alarm bells and honestly, the more the merrier, but I just can't believe they think they're still the best people to be in charge of this battle, given past performance.
Never tired of failing up. I'm just dumbfounded most of the time now.
Erin Conroy
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