Seems like intentionally damaging the full faith & credit of the United States in order to do insider trading for the benefit of your political supporters could be an impeachable offense.
He told people to buy stocks only minutes before he announced the new policy of pausing tariffs for 90 days.
The Republican Party is using our government and US stock market to conduct the most massive insider trading & racketeering scheme in US history.
!["Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy but by sophisticated networks relying on kleptocratic financial structures, a complex of security services—military, paramilitary, police—and technological experts who provide surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation." - Anne Applebaum
[Photo of Trump with Putin]](/proxy/post_attachment/1694555/a8bc78bcc6.png "\"Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy but by sophisticated networks relying on kleptocratic financial structures, a complex of security services—military, paramilitary, police—and technological experts who provide surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation.\" - Anne Applebaum
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This is why emptying out DOJ, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau started by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the IRS and the SEC, has been such a high priority for the Republicans.
Journalists presently credulously reporting and/or salivating over our residing in the "pump" portion of the "pump & dump" process, are fucking idiots and you should note who they are and stop reading their work.
As a collective, we have one choice at this point: get smarter & more aggressive on literally every front, or...lose.
"Somebody just made BILLIONS off this tariff-based manipulation of the markets." Tristan Snell, prosecuter in the Trump U. fraud case
International security analyst: Trump Admin will "be investigated for market manipulation."
Cybercrime expert atty Jackie Singh: "pump & dump schemes were previously an exclusive realm of fraudsters, & considered prosecutable criminal activity"
History prof: "Trump's cronies are making millions from market manipulation & speculation"
https://www.alternet.org/insider-trading-trump/
Reminds me so much of the Very Serious & Rational Men reassuring everyone during his Twitter purchase that Musk was 1) a business person with sane business reasons & also somehow 2) just a dumb-dumb.
One thing it DEFINITELY WASN'T - you paranoid & hysterical ladies - a non-economic move to achieve his right wing political goals.
Anyhoo.
I think the "Trump is just a dummy who knows nothing about the market" takes are lazy & encourage us to be lazy & let further harms pass by without action.
There are massive apparatuses with many people in them, that drive these market moves by the GOP who run the US govt now. It's not all being run by Trump. It's very naive to approach this with One Big Man theory.
Follow the money...
Alwaleed bin Talal is in charge of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.
https://electrek.co/2025/04/07/elon-musk-sets-stage-tesla-bail-out-twitter-xai-insane-valuation/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Waleed_bin_Talal_Al_Saud
Sovereign wealth funds are notorious for their criminal level public corruption
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/alwaleed-s-kingdom-is-said-to-revive-talks-for-1-billion-loan
He was incarcerated by MBS for 83 days
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-05/kingdom-holding-posts-profit-as-billionaire-chairman-is-arrested
The Saudis hacked Bezos phone & who knows what extortion resulted
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He's invested billions in a succession of Musk's businesses and lost money each time, yet still invests again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/01/musk-twitter-investors-underwater/
The non-monetary goal that petrostate despots want to achieve is the end of any democracy daring to act on climate change.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-investors-elon-musks-x-revealed-court-filing-1942970
https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2024/05/27/elon-musk-xai/
Who knows what techbros like Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, & Musk are doing to help...
The Ministry of the Future, by Kim Stanley Robins
Some good ideas in there.
The book "Ministry of the Future" describes a multi-front assault on climate change & the moneyed behind climate denial
If only the wealthy would participate in saving the planet. Instead they kneecap every attempt
1. Criminalizing protests
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/climate/uk-climate-protests-policing-laws-prison-intl/index.html
2. Buying elections
3. Suing climate defenders
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/greenpeace-lawsuit-energy-transfer-dakota-pipeline
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/verdict/
4. Attacking democracy
Like, congrats Jon Favreau, you wrote a snarky post that reads well with your liberal readership.
“Art of the Deal: 1) Impose massive tariffs on nearly every country that crash the markets and create the conditions for global economic collapse 2) Make zero deals with zero countries 3) Pause tariffs 4) VICTORY!!”
Great, you can all clap each other on the back about how GOP idiots are being dumb.
It's true as far as it goes, but also shows you completely unprepared to do counter it.
But what do I know, I'm just a Paranoid Hysterical Lady with advanced degrees in the history of fascism, and a record of seeing all the flags that mattered, way before the Very Serious Men with Very Serious Reps and Very Serious Think Tank Paychecks.
I am glad some Very Serious Men are finally ringing alarm bells and honestly, the more the merrier, but I just can't believe they think they're still the best people to be in charge of this battle, given past performance.
Never tired of failing up. I'm just dumbfounded most of the time now.