Ed Elson
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After that, he pulled those tariffs, and he famously taco'd,
But just a few minutes before he did so, we saw once again a huge spike in S&P options trading, with some trades skyrocketing more than 2,000% in a single hour.
It was one of the largest jumps in the S&P's history, and a handful of people mysteriously seemed to know exactly what was about to happen.
We also have to mention the insider trading in crypto.
The fact that TrumpCoin netted more than a billion dollars for 58 anonymous crypto accounts, accounts whose operators happened to sell at the exact right time, right before millions of Americans lost literally billions of dollars of their own money.
The same thing happened with MelaniaCoin.
The same thing happened with World Liberty Financial.
In fact, Eric Trump is now bragging about how much money his family made off of these crypto grifts.
But I'm not done yet.
We could also talk about the billions of dollars Jared Kushner raised from foreign governments to invest in Middle Eastern assets before he personally steered us into war with Iran, as was literally admitted by Trump himself.
We could also talk about the millions of dollars the Trump kids invested in defense companies and drone startups, again, before we decided to go to war in the Middle East.
We could also talk about the Witkoff children.
who have been personally brokering real estate deals in the Middle East while their dad runs the United States foreign policy for the region.
Or even we could talk about David Sachs, who continues to invest in AI companies through his VC firm while he simultaneously runs our AI policy for the entire nation.
I could go on and on here.
This is just scratching the surface.
And as
I explained yesterday, and as Anthony explained too, this is only going to continue because the SEC and the DOJ and even the FBI have decided they don't want to do anything about it.
Why?
Because if they do, they'll probably get punished.