The Daily Populous Thursday April 10th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Murky-Site7468

Insider trading is a very illegal practice that involves using special or private information to give yourself an advantage in buying and selling stocks. Someone with knowledge of an economic policy change that would cause the markets to shoot back up would be posting about how great a time it is to buy right before the policy change happened. This particular situation looks like the opposite of a pump and dump: a poop and scoop. This is when an exclusive group of people with private knowledge do whatever they can to drive stock prices down—like announcing debilitating global tariffs—and then buy stocks up strategically before the price goes up again. And with this administration, the corruption is completely out in the open.

“Trump is creating giant market fluctuations with his on-again, off-again tariffs. These constant gyrations in policy provide dangerous opportunities for insider trading,” Senator Adam Schiff wrote on X. “Who in the administration knew about Trump’s latest tariff flip flop ahead of time? Did anyone buy or sell stocks, and profit at the public’s expense? I’m writing to the White House—the public has a right to know.”

“Trump’s Truth Social now basically promotes veiled insider trading on upcoming announcements,” wrote health and economics expert Eric Feigl-Ding. “Trump’s benefactors are gleefully watching.”

lesmainsdepigeon on April 9th, 2025 at 22:39 UTC »

While everyone is laughing at Trump’s see-sawing on tariffs, the White House has now established its ability to scoop Americans off the street without due process and move them to a foreign prison where they will be out of reach of US courts.

Spicy_Pancake1 on April 9th, 2025 at 22:18 UTC »

Elect a criminal, get criminal shit.

Murky-Site7468 on April 9th, 2025 at 22:17 UTC »

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” the president wrote on Wednesday, a mere four hours before announcing a 90-day pause on most retaliatory tariffs...