by Olivier Acuña Barba •Published: April 12, 2025•21:00•2 minutes read
Donald Trump is accused of Democrats of manipulating markets and insider trading – Press Photo
Without a doubt, every time Donald Trump stimulated, reversed or suspended trade tariffs, stock markets around the world responded in either direction. But whether the US president intentionally did it or engaged in insider trading is a completely different story.
On Wednesday, before making a dramatic reversal in his trade war, which rose sharply in stock markets around the world, he wrote to Social to the truth of social media platforms: He tailed his posts with his first DJT, his social media company ticker. These stocks rose 22%.
Trump’s Truth Social Post undoubtedly raised the question of whether the forced people to buy stocks and traders into long stocks was intended to intentionally manipulate the market.
Today, Senate Democrats have called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the president and others, denounced potential violations, including insider trading and market manipulation.
“Specifically, we ask the SEC to determine whether Democrats will announce the “best time to buy” when President Trump, his Cabinet members, or other donors, insiders and administrative authorities announced that the stock market is “the best time to buy,” when President Trump announces that the stock market is “the best time to buy,” he said. letter To Sec.
Unstable and reckless tariffs
In a three-page letter signed by Elizabeth Warren, Charles Schumer, Adam Schiff, Mark Kelly, Reuben Gallego and Ron Wyden, they also accused Trump of “announcement of a series of volatile and reckless tariffs, leading to key market disruptions.”
They pointed out that as a direct result of these actions, US financial markets lost more than $5 trillion in two days. According to the studyUS stocks lost a total market value of $10 trillion by April 4, as their market capitalization was $52 trillion. According to the company’s market capitalization, the current market capitalization is currently $54.7 trillion.
Financial data confirms that Trump’s social media sent a U.S. stock market rally minutes before the tariffs that was suspended. Their bets paid off beautifully.
“There’s no way to know if the buyer had (or wasn’t) lucky moment in that moment,” says Henry Schwartz, Vice President of Market Intelligence at CBOE Global Markets. I said Reuters.
in video Posted on X, Trump was heard talking about the massive profits that people in his oval office made. According to the New York magazine on April 4th xPostTrump was posting videos about the true society that are no longer available, where he says he’s “deliberately crashing the market.”
Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the U.S. House Democrats, told Congressional reporters that his party would “proactively demand answers and transparency, especially as it relates to stock purchase decisions that may have occurred in the past few days.”
“No Way” Trump is guilty
Large daily market fluctuations have brought the volume of options to record highs. About 85 million contracts were changed to their hands on Wednesday.
“The conclusion, volume and volatility were enormous, so it’s impossible to tell if any of the many timing purchases are either a random regular transaction or a creepy one.”
Jordan Belfort of Wall Street told Sky News that Donald Trump is guilty of insider trading or market manipulation.
“If he didn’t say anything and told five best friends, ‘I’m going to ease this tariff situation – you should buy,’ it’s illegal,” said Belfort, who spent years behind a bar convicted of insider trading.
