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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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