Call for Insider Trading Investigation Into Trump Tariffs

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Senator Adam Schiff on Wednesday called on Congress to investigate whether President Donald Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation when he abruptly paused a sweeping set of tariffs ...

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I've always believed that this was a get richer scheme by the President and his rich minions.[image or embed]
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"Schiff's comments regarding a formal inquiry, which has not been previously reported, came soon after the S&P 500 surged more than 9% Wednesday afternoon after Trump announced the tariff pause. "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" Trump posted on Truth Social minutes after the market opened on Wednesday, along with the letters "DJT," which stands for both his initials and the ticker for his media company."

Pump and dump ...

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-09 08:10 PM | Reply

I don't see how this can possibly be legal.
I don't see how this can't be a serious felony.
Hopefully Et_Al can make sense of this for us, assuming it ever gets litigated, which it probably won't!

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-09 08:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's so ------- OBVIOUS.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-09 08:50 PM | Reply

He's been found guilty of felonies and impeached multiple times, all with no consequence; he ran a Coup on the Gov and got away with it.

He's feeling pretty invincible... as a Cult Leader should. And he's way to narcissistic for suicide, even mass suicide, so we seem to be stuck with him... as long as the Cult is under his spell.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-09 09:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Great news, investors.
If you bought stocks because of Trump's post on Truth Social, you have engaged in Insider Trading!

Insider Trading: When Is It Illegal?
Insider transactions are illegal when individuals with access to material, nonpublic information use that privileged knowledge to trade securities. The elements of insider trading often include the following:
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"Tipping": This involves an insider sharing confidential information with another person (the "tippee"), who then trades on that information. Both the tipper and the tippee are liable for insider trading violations.
www.investopedia.com

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-09 11:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Of all the things that will never be investigated this won't be investigated the most.

#6 | Posted by qcp at 2025-04-10 10:55 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

About 15-20 minutes BEFORE the announcement, a small number of traders made HUGE buys.

Then volume dropped back to normal until the announcement which caused volume to once again skyrocket.

Someone tipped off a small number of investors.

#7 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-10 11:04 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Well, considering Trump is ON VIDEO (April 9) congratulating the CEO of JPMorgan and another person, pointing to them and saying "He (JPMorgan CEDO) made 1.6 billion today and he (pointing to the left) made 90 million today!" I would say yeah, that was orchestrated at least in part to drive stocks down then let the usual billionaires scoop up more stocks cheaply.

#8 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-04-10 11:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Of all the things that will never be investigated this won't be investigated the most.
#6 | Posted by qcp

Definitely won't be investigated where Repubs have any say in the matter. But that still leaves states free to do their thing. And if/when Dems take the House/Senate/White House ...

#9 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-10 11:19 AM | Reply

" Someone tipped off a small number of investors."

This is how a generation of work and savings evaporates.

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-10 11:48 AM | Reply

President Donald Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation

Yes to both.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-10 11:55 AM | Reply

Someone tipped off a small number of investors.

"Someone"

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-10 12:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Of all the things that will never be investigated this won't be investigated the most."

With Trump the most likely people to be investigated are the investigators.

#13 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-10 01:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#7 ... About 15-20 minutes BEFORE the announcement, a small number of traders made HUGE buys.

Then volume dropped back to normal until the announcement which caused volume to once again skyrocket.

Someone tipped off a small number of investors. ...

Quelle surprise.

Put a criminal in the Oval Office, and what happens to the White House?

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-10 02:24 PM | Reply

Time for another round of bashing trans athletes to keep the rubes occupied ... they might start to notice that they're getting robbed.

#15 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-04-10 04:14 PM | Reply

Just a newer version on "Pump and Dump"

#16 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-04-10 04:17 PM | Reply

Of all the things that will never be investigated this won't be investigated the most.

bump.

#17 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-10 04:24 PM | Reply

Nancy Pelosi Stock More Than Doubles in Value in 1 Month
Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com nancy-pelosi-stock-more-...
Feb 21, 2025 " A stock owned by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband has surged in value by more than double in just one month

#18 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-10 04:25 PM | Reply

Nancy Pelosi is a piker compared to how much Trump and associates have made since he won the election.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-10 04:44 PM | Reply

Daddysfist's child-raping hero steals from children's cancer charities.

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-10 04:45 PM | Reply

Trump is ON VIDEO (April 9) congratulating the CEO of JPMorgan and another person, pointing to them and saying "He (JPMorgan CEDO) made 1.6 billion today and he (pointing to the left) made 90 million today!"

Needs to be repeated for the peons in the gallery.

#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-10 04:45 PM | Reply

Nancy Pelosi Stock More Than Doubles in Value in 1 Month
#18 | Posted by itchyp

Did she crash the stock market, stealing $11 trillion out of our retirement accounts? Throw the nation and world into recession (possible depression)?

No? Then I guess she can't count on your vote.

#22 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-10 05:05 PM | Reply

they all do it

#23 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-10 06:06 PM | Reply

THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT

#24 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-04-10 07:41 PM | Reply

they all do it
#23 | Posted by itchyp

Please provide a cite for where Nancy Pelosi alienated our allies, costing our MIC almost all foreign sales for the foreseeable future, instituted tariffs against pretty much the entire world (except Russia, for some reason), and tanked the stock market for $11 trillion in two months.

#25 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-10 09:47 PM | Reply

If the Great Unwashed can be so easily hornswoggled into trusting a convicted felon and deadbeat conman to lead them, I hold no illusion that they will refrain from taking that next, unthinkable step when commanded to do so. That cartoon criminal is pathologically lying and relentlessly flaunting the law right in front of them, yet the inexplicable response from the Great Unwashed appears to be "so what." So my question now is...can the center hold?

#26 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-04-11 08:02 PM | Reply

MTG dumped her stocks just before the tariff tantrum.
Wanna bet every gopper got the same heads up?

#27 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-11 08:05 PM | Reply