Democrats ask for information exchange research on SEC on the possible Trump market manipulation
Several senior democrats of the Senate are asking the stock exchange and values commission to investigate whether President Donald Trump and others participated in the privileged information trade, market manipulation or other violations of the Law of Securities related to their volatile global tariff plans that have altered financial markets.
In a letter sent to the president of the SEC, Paul Atkins, on Friday, the Massachusetts senator, Elizabeth Warren, and five other senators pointed out the Trump policy changes back and forth, creating a “significant agitation of the market”, which amounts to billion dollars of lost value, since its start last week.
They also pointed to Trump to publicly encourage people to invest in the stock market only a few hours before it unexpectedly announced a 90 -day break in most tariffs, which triggered a mass demonstration on Wednesday.
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The Democratic leaders made a similar investigation application in a letter sent on Wednesday to the office of the interim government director of the Government, Jamieson Greer, and the Chief of Cabinet of the White House, Susie Wiles.
“This was his strategy all the time,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, to journalists on Wednesday of Trump’s surprise to walk with tariffs to all countries, except in China. The investment triggered what Trump and others recognized as one of the best market days in history.
White House spokesman Kush Desai accused Democratic leaders of “playing partisan games” with his sec request in a statement to News themezone.
“The Democrats criticized China’s deception for decades, and now they are playing partisan games instead of celebrating the decisive action of President Trump yesterday to finally corner for China,” Desai said.
A SEC spokesman declined to comment on the investigation request when News themezone contacted him on Friday.
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In his letter on Friday, the Democratic senators said that “it is not clear what officials and affiliates of President Trump had an anticipated knowledge of their plans to delay tariffs, but experts may have known that it was going to announce a tariff pause and that the market would improve.”
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This is a sufficient reason for an investigation, they said.
“We urge the SEC to investigate whether the tariff ads, which caused the market accident and the subsequent partial recovery, the experts in the enriched administration and the friends at the expense of the American public and if the privileged information, including the president’s family, had prior knowledge of the rate that they abused making actions of actions before the president of the president,” the letter is said.
The letter was also signed by the leader of the Senate minority Chuck Schumer, the classification member of the Finance Committee, Ron Wyden, Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego de Arizona, and Adam Schiff de California.