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Trump is selling Wall Street fast access to his Truth Social posts before they're public, allowing traders to get market-moving announcements first. Critics call it a corruption scheme.
Trump is selling Wall Street early access to his Truth Social posts before they go public, allowing traders to receive market-moving announcements minutes or hours before the general public. This creates an obvious information advantage: traders who pay for the early feed can act on Trump's statements about tariffs, Fed policy, or company-specific news before regular investors know what he's said. The arrangement is being criticized as a corruption scheme because it blurs the line between Trump's role as a political figure and his private financial interests.
The mechanism is novel but the underlying problem isn't. What's new is the directness: Trump isn't hiding a business conflict or burying it in disclosure forms. He's openly selling preferential access to information he controls, timed to move markets. It's not technically insider trading in the legal sense because Trump isn't trading on nonpublic corporate information—he's the source. But it functions exactly like one: select people pay money to know something before everyone else, and that information moves money. The fact that it's Trump's own posts doesn't make it less corrupt; it just means there's no middleman.
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