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Chapter 1: Did Trump intentionally manipulate the market?
The question is a very simple one. Did Donald Trump intentionally tank the market by tariffing the world so that once the market crashed and he removed a lot of those tariffs or pressed pause on it and the market shot back up that he would enrich himself and his billionaire friends?
I want to explore this with you and I want to share with you what certain Democratic senators and members of Congress are doing as they demand investigations into whether market manipulation took place. So let's take a look at this and analyze it through a legal prism. As a law professor, let me try to walk us all through this.
So earlier yesterday morning, kind of first thing in the morning, Donald Trump made the following two posts. Be cool. everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before, exclamation point. He followed up by saying in all caps, this is a great time to buy, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, DJT. Now,
Under United States securities law, and really the very existence of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is to prevent behavior like this. Because could you imagine if the CEO of a company or an executive of the company posted out, buy the stock now, buy, buy, buy, what do you think would happen?
It would manipulate the market and people would go and buy, or insiders would say, that's a signal. And then maybe temporarily the stock would go up. And then if it crashed again... Retail investors and people can get screwed. Insiders can benefit off of this knowledge, and the knowledge is contained and controlled by insiders. That's why there are all these laws against insider trading.
So, you know, Donald Trump and his regime members, all of his propagandists, the Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, his press secretary propagandists, Caroline Leavitt and Trump have been saying there will never be a pause ever in these tariffs that Donald Trump placed against the world. They will always remain in effect. Tariffs are the greatest thing ever.
It's going to make America rich. We will not back down on tariffs. In fact, Donald Trump's trade representative, who ostensibly is the person who came up with the tariff formula, was testifying over the past two days, first in front of the Senate, then in front of the House of Representatives. saying that the tariffs will always remain in effect.
In fact, he was testifying, Jameson Greer was testifying to that effect that the tariffs are not going to be removed when Donald Trump then posted around noon yesterday, at least my time, based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world's markets. I'm raising the tariffs to China, he says, by 125%. He then says, though, he's pausing the tariffs as it relates to everybody else.
He says the tariffs are otherwise going to be paused. And then what happened? The stock markets just started surging up and they went from crashing to basically having the best gains possible. on a day-to-day basis in a very long time.
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Chapter 2: What are the legal implications of Trump's tariffs?
the market right there of people trading, the Trump media right there. So now go back, rewind a little bit for a second, right? And remember what happened on April 7th, 2025. Whatever this account is, this Walter Bloomberg account reported the following. Kevin Hassett, Trump's top economic advisor, Trump is considering a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except China.
That was from Monday, April 7th. And then the Trump regime walked it back. But what we saw immediately is the stocks went up like a thousand points or like three, 4%. And then they went down, down, down, down, down again. So the question was, was that information leaked out there into the market as a trial balloon, as a test earlier in the week? Then the Trump regime said, ah, I got it.
This will have the effect of pumping the market and we can create a pump and dump scenario. I'm asking questions right here as a lawyer or as someone who was investigating this. These are the questions you'd want to ask as the CoffeeZilla account post. Wait. So the Monday fake news about the 90-day pause was actually real all along.
Spencer Hakimian, who I think has been doing a great job tracking all the chaos in the Trump financial markets, goes, by the way, the leaked pause news the other day, he believes was 100% intentional. White House wanted to see how markets would react. if and when they needed to exercise their put. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
This account right here explains, so someone, and we've seen lots of trades like this, but this is just one trade just as an example. I want to give you specific examples of someone just trading on SPY, the exchange traded fund tied to the S&P. Someone bought $1.3 million of SPY earlier. They are now worth $1. $33 million. So someone who bought that earlier just made $33 million in one day.
You see the cycle of Trump decision making or lack thereof that we have on the Midas Touch Network. I make stupid decisions. Something really bad happens. I convince my followers the problem is now magically solved. I reverse my stupid decisions. But within that, is Trump and his oligarch buddies getting rich off of this is the question. Now, Senator Adam Schiff is asking those questions.
He's launched an investigation. Let's go to Senator Schiff and see what he has to say.
Senator Schiff, tell us about it. So today, Trump removed many of the tariffs he had imposed against in this on again, off again, it must be Wednesday, tariffs are off again kind of policy. This has just wreaked havoc on the markets, of course, but there is another profound danger as well, and that is insider trading within the White House, within the administration.
You may have seen early in the day, Trump tweet this. Now, this is a good time to buy. So the question is, between that tweet and Donald Trump's announcement that he was reducing the tariffs on most other nations apart from China, the question is, who knew what the president was going to do?
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Chapter 3: How did Trump's announcements affect stock market trading?
In the House of Representatives, saying there will never be a pause, Trump did a pause on all of the countries other than China and then raised the China tariffs. And here was what Representative Stephen Horsford, a Democratic congressman, had to say at play in this clip.
There is a trade. We already have a free trade agreement. We have a trade surplus. So getting the least bad, why did they get whacked in the first place?
We're addressing the $1.2 trillion deficit, the largest in human history that President Biden left us with. We should be running up the score in Australia.
Ambassador Clear, answer the question on Australia. We have a trade surplus with Australia. We have a free trade agreement. Why? They are an incredibly important national security partner. Why were they whacked with a tariff?
Senator, despite the agreement, they ban our beef, they ban our pork, they're getting ready to impose measures on our digital companies. With your Greek letter formula, the fact that we have a trade surplus... We have a global tariff on every... We're trying to address the $1.2 trillion deficit that Biden left us with.
I think that answer... Sir, you're a much smarter person than that answer. The idea that we are going to whack friend and foe alike... And particularly friends with this level is both, I think, insulting the Australians, undermines our national security, and frankly makes us not a good partner going forward.
The lack of trust from friends and allies based upon this ridiculous policy that goes into full effect at midnight tonight is extraordinary.
And here's what Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said demanding an investigation. Let's play it.
And right before Donald Trump declared that some of his tariffs were off again, he sent out a message to his billionaire buddies. He posted, this is a great time to buy, in all caps. Was that market manipulation? Was it corruption in plain sight?
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