Is market manipulation legal? Is it mostly illegal but legal when Trump does it? Asking for a friend psycho.
Trump posts THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!—then caves on tariffs hours later. Market surges. Middle-class investors who sold during the chaos lose big. Insiders win again. This is market manipulation to help his base profit. How is this legal or OK? pic.twitter.com/iXs92TRzS5
Anyone buying or selling in this market has a gambling problem. Excepting of course insider trading. Why is it that everything Trump does has an air of illegality to it?
Tim Harris
Senator Adam Schiff is opening an investigation into this.
iknklast
I’m sure SCOTUS will rule that this comes under the heading of his presidential duties, so he is immune.
Omar
Iknklast: ‘Presidential duties can include staging a coup. After all, that was what George Washington did. Plenty of gold-plated precedent there.
John Reed
To quote a certain shiny gold robot, “We’re doomed!”
iknklast
John Reed, I presume you’re referring to C3PO? Though I can also envision Crow T. Robot saying that…
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Anyone buying or selling in this market has a gambling problem. Excepting of course insider trading. Why is it that everything Trump does has an air of illegality to it?
Senator Adam Schiff is opening an investigation into this.
I’m sure SCOTUS will rule that this comes under the heading of his presidential duties, so he is immune.
Iknklast: ‘Presidential duties can include staging a coup. After all, that was what George Washington did. Plenty of gold-plated precedent there.
To quote a certain shiny gold robot, “We’re doomed!”
John Reed, I presume you’re referring to C3PO? Though I can also envision Crow T. Robot saying that…