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Comment by mort96 | Hacker News Reader

The president told his Truth Social followers that it's a great time to buy stock just a few hours before this announcement: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1143082727259...

It's probably many things, but one part of it is for sure stock manipulation.

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This is wild.

8:37AM "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT"

12:18PM "I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Assuming this was planned so insiders can buy the dip (and let's be honest, he's not clever enough for this, but any crypto bro is), his announcement serves the insiders perfectly as plausible deniability.

What's even wilder is this random Twitter account that 'leaked' the 90 days pause two days ago, got picked up by the news as truth, caused the market to recover by trillions of dollars temporarily... and now this...

Taking the source for what it is, if this is true then some people made some crazy money today.

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1jve86e/tin...

There were people buying 18,000 SPY 510 calls at noon due to expire yesterday at 4pm. That is an absolutely insane thing to do unless you had very sure insider information of an incoming spike

My take is that’s probably for plausible deniability. “The prophet told all true believers, how could there have been insider trading.” The volume on the markets picked up twenty minutes before not hours.

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