Malcolm Ferguson @malc_ferg (X)
Posted on 04/09/2025 4:20:36 PM PDT by Apparatchik
Trump may have accidentally confessed to insider trading and market manipulation on Truth Social.
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” the president wrote on Wednesday, a mere four hours before announcing a 90-day pause on most retaliatory tariffs except for China, yet another market-shocking announcement that caused stocks to shoot up.
Insider trading is a very illegal practice that involves using special or private information to give yourself an advantage in buying and selling stocks. Someone with knowledge of an economic policy change that would cause the markets to shoot back up would be posting about how great of a time it is to buy right before the policy change happened. This particular situation looks like the opposite of a pump and dump: a poop and scoop. This is when an exclusive group of people with private knowledge do whatever they can to drive stock prices down—like announcing debilitating global tariffs—and then buy stocks up strategically before the price goes up again. And with this administration, the corruption is completely out in the open.
“Trump is creating giant market fluctuations with his on-again, off-again tariffs. These constant gyrations in policy provide dangerous opportunities for insider trading,” Senator Adam Schiff wrote on X. “Who in the administration knew about Trump’s latest tariff flip flop ahead of time? Did anyone buy or sell stocks, and profit at the public’s expense? I’m writing to the White House — the public has a right to know.”
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LOL, tarrifs are bad Trump is destroying the economy, he must stop.
Trump ends tariffs.
OMG Trump stopped the tariffs he is so corrupt he has to be stopped!
They don’t seem to mind that Nancy Pelosi’s net worth is over $100 million on a modest congressional salary.
gambling.
Uh, no.
Insider trading only applies when the “special” or “private” information originated inside the company whose securities are being traded.
If my hypothetical cousin who works for ABC Airline tells me that the company is working on a deal to acquire a subsidiary airline and this information is only known to company executives, then I would be breaking the law if I used that information to buy or sell the company’s stock.
But if an ABC Airline plane crashes in a up the road and I’m the first one on the scene as a volunteer firefighter, there’s nothing that stops me from executing a trade on my mobile phone to sell the company’s stock before anyone else finds out about the incident.
The stock market is a CASINO and in no way reflects the reality of the debt-plagued U.S. economy. 4 years of Joe ByeDone proved that !
Would be considered market manipulation, not insider trading.
Each and every day, the leftist journalists prove again and again that they are journalists because they failed studies classes.
How does making a public announcement lead to insider trading? These people are crazy. All they had to do is listen to DJT, and they would have gotten in at the bottom!
Hey Mal you idiot!
I knew it was a good time to buy, without Trump telling me.
Bob Brinker told me that decades ago.
Stock market recovers most of its "Crash."
The Left needs a new narrative - instantly.
Yesterday, Trump was a clueless moron who should be impeached.
Today, Trump is a stock manipulating genius who should be arrested.
Is it really insider trading when every moron on earth knows which products are going to be the most competitive?
Yes, let’s have hearings and see how Congress made out. What’s Pencil Neck doing?
It would be “considered” market manipulation” by those who don’t know what they’re talking about.
I wonder what meds the author is on - one must be high blood pressure, from his TDS.
That's (D)ifferent.
Pelosi keeps her congressional insider stock tips to herself. Trump tweeted his stock tips out to the world.
Malcolm Ferguson @malc_ferg (X)
It’s also hard not to notice that it’s a good to buy now that prices are lower—it’s all over the news.
My stockbroker said the firm he works for was expecting a 9%-16% market correction.
That was before all the tariff brew ha ha.
If everyone knows about them, it’s not insider trading, is it?
Economies are cyclical.
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