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    Is it plausible that the current US president is creating situations that allow his family to frontrun/insider trade to Maximise profit?

    Would like someone to sense check me on this ; the situations that have been created so far:

    – tariffs

    – the war in Iran

    Allow the president to control the market via his truth social posts. There’s clearly front running of trades based on his posts, so I was wondering could he be entering into these situations purely to trade them?

    He’s shown with trump coin that he’s willing to maximise his profit

    Edit: and with a lack of regulatory oversight as a result of these actions, does this make the us stock market less investable ?

    Is it plausible that the current US president is creating situations that allow his family to frontrun/insider trade to Maximise profit?
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    5. trade-craft on

      Such an original thought…

      I haven’t heard anyone asking this question.

      Your depth of thought is other-worldly.

    6. Honkee_Kong on

      Obviously. Conservatives don’t give a fuck though they’re completely brain washed.

    8. 33rus on

      No way. The President is the man of highest integrity and honour. He would never do such a thing!

    9. Ok-Personality-6630 on

      It’s not even the big events. The swings are important for trading profits. Look at how he creates swings.

    12. DontForgetTheDivy on

      Is it possible that the thing we all know has been happening is happening. YES

    16. StrebLab on

      Dude no shit. They aren’t even hiding it. SEC has been gutted and the enforcement director resigned a couple weeks ago because she was getting top down pressure to not investigate the hundreds of millions of dollars of suspiciously timed trades since the start of this administration. 

      Edit: just a couple examples: one of the early executive orders when Trump entered office was to bring the typically independent SEC under the executive branch so the Whitehouse now has to sign off on proposed regulations.

      Another example: by law, no more than 3 of the 5 SEC commissioners can be the same party. Right now there are only 3 commissioners and 2 of the spots are vacant. This is going to be a shocker, but all 3 spots are Republican and the person who would appoint the last two spots is… the president, who has just chosen to leave those spots unfilled. The last Democrat commissioner was ousted because of her “anti-crypto” stances, wanting more transparency and regulation around the crypto industry. In unrelated news both Trump and Melania released crypto tokens which turned out to be pump and dump schemes and Barron Trump has entered a crypto venture with Don Jr and Eric and now have net worths amassed at $150 million, $500 million and $750 million respectively from their crypto assets.

    19. Far-East-locker on

      No doubt they are making money off the current situation

      However, i don’t think it is the main reason

      Just look at the congress trade record, there are money to be made already, it is just not necessarily to go to war to make money

    23. PleasantAnomaly on

      Purpose is double. One is to insider trade, other is to distract from the Epstein files

    24. OTMallthetime on

      They’ve been doing it for years, Trump just lacks the subtlety of his predecessors. Except for war in Iran, that was done because Israel told him to. Which never happened before. Never before has Israel pushed US to bomb another country. Ever.

    25. 2beatenup on

      Nah… not our president. Not the most genius, multiple bankrupting, con man with every failed business… nah. /s

    31. cbrown146 on

      This feels like an honest question from a MAGA supporter. So I’ll give an honest response. Trump benefits from this war because inside trading is allowed for the senate and president. There’s been pushes from the people to get rid of this practice but both parties love this loophole. Bernie and AOC have been the main ones pushing for inside trading to stop.

      As much as Trump comes off as an idiot he knows basic things like futures or option trading. Once you are at the helm of market moving with everything you say you can give your closest allies inside information they can act on.

      Short non insulting answer – Yes, it’s not only plausible, but he really is abusing his power.

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