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3 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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DONALD TRUMP IS ROBBING Americans blind, and even Republicans are starting to notice.
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Republicans → rob → Americans
You may recall that back in March, there were some suspiciously timed, uncannily lucrative oil and stock trades.
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You → recall → March
About fifteen minutes before Trump abruptly announced he was retracting some threats against Iran, billions of dollars’ worth of contracts were placed on bets that oil prices would fall and the S&P 500 would jump.
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S&P → announce → bets
And those lucky bastards turned out to be right!
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bastards → turn → ?
Less known was that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a federal regulator that supervises futures markets, began a preliminary investigation of the suspicious trading volume surge.
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that → know → surge
But according to a bombshell story this week from Bloomberg, a senior adviser to the Trump-appointed CFTC chairman subsequently “intervened” and told them to lay off.
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adviser → accord → them
Staff had made a referral to CFTC’s internal enforcement division to launch a full-scale insider trading investigation; they were ordered to retract it.
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they → make → it
If this was a case of insider trading—and there are some beet-red flags to suggest it was—it would not be a victimless crime.
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it → be → trading
There were losers on the other side of those bets, the chumps whom the insiders got to steal money from by virtue of having an inside line to the White House.
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insiders → be → House
Were this an isolated incident, it would be bad enough: Trump and/or his cronies may have used access to market-moving information to enrich themselves, and the Trump-appointed regulators made sure none of their actions were properly investigated.
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none → use → actions
But this sort of apparent malfeasance looks like one of the defining characteristics of the Trump era.
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sort → look → era
For months Trump Media has been trying to shake down Wall Street firms for early access to Trump’s Truth Social posts.
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Media → try → posts
The idea being to more formally monetize insider access, and give Trump a cut.
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idea → monetize → cut
As San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, who is suing Trump Media on behalf of Californians, put it: “Trump Media created a marketplace that enables insider trading, which Trump directly profits from.
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Trump → sue → which
Californians should not be forced to compete against wealthy trading firms buying early access to market‑moving information.”
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Californians → force → information
This is public robbery, and it isn’t confined to selling early information about administration decisions to allies and eager profiteers.
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it → confine → allies
Under this administration, selling out American voters is a going concern.
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selling → sell → voters
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