Trump 2.0 - DOJ and related

JJ Husker said:
It wouldn’t have sucked if she sold when she did and then bought it back when Trump said it was a good time to buy. Better than just holding it until now.
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The stock was above her sale price less than 2 weeks later.  The overall market was still in collapse from the tariff news at that point.  I guess if she sold and then bought 2 days later she would have been better off.   If her discourses showed the sell order, they would have also had to show a buy order if she did indeed buy back. 
 

 
JJ Husker said:
And yes, please do tell about the time worse when a President manipulated the markets and he and his cronies enriched themselves.
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For starters, market manipulation wouldn’t be the appropriate term…trading on insider information would be appropriate if that’s what happened.   

Second, we all could have sold our holdings on Tuesday April 1 because a Liberation Day announcement was  reported by CNN on Monday 31st

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/31/business/liberation-day-announcement-trump

 
trump and the DOJ have ignored court orders to bring abrego garcia back to the US for over a month so far.  what should happen to them for ignoring court orders?

 
Archy1221 said:
For starters, market manipulation wouldn’t be the appropriate term…trading on insider information would be appropriate if that’s what happened.   

Second, we all could have sold our holdings on Tuesday April 1 because a Liberation Day announcement was  reported by CNN on Monday 31st

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/31/business/liberation-day-announcement-trump
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Is there a reason you’re attempting to minimize or normalize the behavior?

And purposely and knowingly tanking the market and then taking actions to cause it to rise, IDK man, sounds like manipulation to me. Insider trading would be for those who acted on it with advance non-public knowledge.

 
Archy1221 said:
I’ve done neither 
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Archy1221 said:
For starters, market manipulation wouldn’t be the appropriate term…trading on insider information would be appropriate if that’s what happened.   

Second, we all could have sold our holdings on Tuesday April 1 because a Liberation Day announcement was  reported by CNN on Monday 31st

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/31/business/liberation-day-announcement-trump
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Also, please let us all know exactly when it would be safe to make big money moves based on what Trump says he will or won’t do. Tariffs are on. Tariffs are off. They’re at this level or that level or mysteriously disappear based on some unrelated issue. It may have worked out this one time on liberation day but acting on Trump’s words is more likely a recipe for disaster.

Talking up liberation day and it being put out by CNN or whoever doesn’t put us in the same boat as Bondi or other insiders with millions of dollars to play with.  It is not the same for me, you or anybody except those in the know closest to him.

 
JJ Husker said:
Also, please let us all know exactly when it would be safe to make big money moves based on what Trump says he will or won’t do. Tariffs are on. Tariffs are off. They’re at this level or that level or mysteriously disappear based on some unrelated issue. It may have worked out this one time on liberation day but acting on Trump’s words is more likely a recipe for disaster.

Talking up liberation day and it being put out by CNN or whoever doesn’t put us in the same boat as Bondi or other insiders with millions of dollars to play with.  It is not the same for me, you or anybody except those in the know closest to him.
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Again, if she acted on insider information she should be investigated by the SEC.  I have no qualms with that.  Or anyone else for that matter.  If all she did was sell everything after the news came out then I’m not sure what the crime is.  I feel like we need more information on trades likes this and I’m perfectly fine with and would hope maybe Congress holds a hearing and gets these government officials under oath on why they made the trades they made.  

 
Archy1221 said:
Again, if she acted on insider information she should be investigated by the SEC.  I have no qualms with that.  Or anyone else for that matter.  If all she did was sell everything after the news came out then I’m not sure what the crime is.  I feel like we need more information on trades likes this and I’m perfectly fine with and would hope maybe Congress holds a hearing and gets these government officials under oath on why they made the trades they made.  
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Thank you.

And I’ll assume you also agree  that just because liberation day was broadcast prior does not necessarily make it the same situation for you and me as it might with Bondi or another close to Trump.
 

Any impropriety might be tough to prove but I think the people in those positions should have tighter restrictions and be held to a higher standard. They are in those positions to uphold the law and Constitution and to serve, not to abuse the system and serve themselves. I know….that’s all a foreign concept to Trump.

 
TGHusker said:
Pretty much a  nothing burger to all MAGA cult members

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Maybe so, you’d have to ask whoever or whatever maga cult member is.  
 

The rest of us have called out the faults of potential insider trading and having Congressional testimony on the trades in question to see if they were legal.   The rest of us have also talked about banning Congressional stock trading.  
 

I will leave the “maga cult members” sleuthing to you though.  

 
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