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Trump stock shorted heavily day before assassination attempt
Finbold ^ | July 17, 2024 | Elmaz Sabovic

Posted on 07/18/2024 7:17:37 PM PDT by grundle

After an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, which sent shockwaves through the U.S. political landscape, Trump Media (NASDAQ: DJT) shares surged more than 60% in the early trading hour on Monday before retracing by 20% to the valuation of $36.89 at the latest close on July 16.

However, a fact bound to raise a few questions is that short positions against Truth Social stock doubled between July 1 and July 12, going from 7 to 15 million shares, in what was a record of shares shorted for DJT stock since its trading debut.

This surge indicates that individuals or large organizations anticipated a significant drop in the stock’s value by July 15, a scenario that would likely have materialized had President Trump died in Pennsylvania.

The potential need to cover the losses from short positions leading up to July 12 could have provided an additional boost in the price of DJT stock.

A pattern raises concerns that some individuals may have had foreknowledge of a plot against former President Trump’s life and sought to profit from the expected turmoil.

Short interest in DJT stock

Looking at the current level of DJT stock short-interest, it has subsided substantially. It fell to 11.27%, with 5,219,586 shares being shorted at an average coverage of less than one day.

This means that the stock is no longer experiencing high short interest, as it did last week. Previous occurrences of short interest before major events

A similar occurrence was observed on September 11, 2001, when substantial bets were placed against the stocks of major airlines, American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) and United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL), the day before the attacks.

Subsequent investigations revealed that a single entity and an insider newsletter had tipped off investors, leading them to place fortuitous bets against the top two U.S. airlines, which suffered significant losses following the hijackings.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: austincapital; blackrock; djt; djtstock; elgindy; failedassassination; soros; stockshorted; trump; trumpmedia; trumpshot; trumpstockshorted; vanguard
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To: toddausauras

Nancy’s portfolio needs an audit. As does Biden’s. Hillary’s and a good many congresscritters’ and certain gov. agencies.


61 posted on 07/19/2024 6:06:29 AM PDT by bgill
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To: grundle

The bread was baked. So Short.


62 posted on 07/19/2024 6:07:30 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: DesertRhino

Yikes. Sure seems like it!


63 posted on 07/19/2024 6:27:49 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: grey_whiskers
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Trump stock shorted heavily day before assassination attempt , grey_whiskers wrote:

From patriots.win just now: 🤬 DO YOU STILL DOUBT IT'S AN WELL PLANNED INSIDE HIT-JOB ON TRUMP ?🤬 💥Breaking: New information reveals the woman in the photo behind Trump, who calmly recorded the shots fired, is Janeen Diguiseppi, assistant Director of the FBI.💥

Does the Deep State have a trophy room 'decorated' with large, gallery sized images of their 'kills'? Was this to be mounted alongside Dallas photos of JFK?

64 posted on 07/19/2024 6:42:48 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Gene Eric

My thoughts are that it wasn’t the Biden folks that knew, but the Bush/Cheney/Romney people still buried in the agencies that knew what was afoot.


65 posted on 07/19/2024 8:01:13 AM PDT by damper99
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To: Steve Van Doorn

“While being shot at? leaving his head open. no.”

By that time the shooter was already down.


66 posted on 07/21/2024 8:34:30 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: Spacetrucker

“I find it curious that the shooter fired off (supposedly) 5 or 6 more shots and NOT ONE of the SS agents got hit.”

That was from the counter sniper teams firing.


67 posted on 07/21/2024 8:36:37 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper
“While being shot at? leaving his head open. no.”
By that time the shooter was already down.


how would they know that?
68 posted on 07/21/2024 10:24:14 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn
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To: Steve Van Doorn

“how would they know that?”

Because you can hear the agents saying in one or two of the videos that the shooter was down, and confirming the shooter was down before they started moving Trump.


69 posted on 07/22/2024 5:43:33 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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