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Trump executed 327 stock buys right before pausing tariffs, which sent markets soaring. The trades, revealed in financial disclosures, raise questions about advance knowledge of his own policy shifts.
Trump bought stocks 327 times in the weeks before he announced he was pausing tariffs, according to financial disclosures reviewed after the announcement. The timing matters because the tariff pause sent markets soaring. The trades themselves aren't illegal—presidents can trade stocks—but the pattern raises a straightforward question: did Trump know his own policy was coming and profit from that knowledge before the public did?
This isn't about whether the tariff pause was good policy. It's about whether someone with direct control over major announcements is using that control to make money before those announcements happen. If a corporate executive did this with their own company's stock, it would be called insider trading. The fact that it's a president doesn't change what it looks like.
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