White House Confronted Over Huge Bets Made Minutes Before Trump’s Big War Move

Trumps net woth up 4 BILLION in a year. That's all you need to know. They are all in on it, fricking disgusting.

LOL! Sure, insider trading is illegal, but who is going to arrest them for it, the DOJ? Pam Bondi is more than likely in on it. This is what it looks like when The Mafia takes over the federal government. We're no different from Russia at this point.

In addition to the half a billion in oil, someone also bet $1.5 Billion on the S&P going up like a rocket... 15 minutes before the fake-twitter post that made it do exactly that. One of his billionaire buddies was told what was about to happen, in exchange for a healthy kickback, no doubt. Is it illegal? Absolutely. What's the SEC or the FTC going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. Of course.

Remember when DOGE emptied the SEC office? * [https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/doge-targets-sec-next-for-job-cuts-priority-shifts-explained](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/doge-targets-sec-next-for-job-cuts-priority-shifts-explained) * [https://www.barrons.com/articles/doge-sec-cuts-1cbe7443](https://www.barrons.com/articles/doge-sec-cuts-1cbe7443)

Rule of law is important. At some point investors will start pulling money from the US scam markets and put them everywhere else

Corruption will define this administration

Traders placed nearly half a billion dollars in bets on falling oil prices just 15 minutes before President Trump’s announcement of “productive” talks with Iran sent prices tumbling. “It’s hard to prove causality . . . but you have to wonder who would have been relatively aggressive at selling futures at that point, 15 minutes before Trump’s post,” one market strategist told the Financial Times of the transactions. Roughly 6,200 Brent and West Texas Intermediate contracts traded between 6:49 a.m. and 6:50 a.m. on Monday, with unusually large bets in the oil futures market, worth roughly $580 million. The trades seemed reminiscent of an anonymous bet on Polymarket in January that saw one lucky user win $436,000 by betting on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s ouster just hours before he was captured by U.S. forces. On Monday, the trades came just minutes before Trump took to Truth Social to declare that he was postponing his threatened strikes on Iran, an announcement that caused oil prices to fall and stock futures to jump. “My gut from watching markets for the last 25 years is this is really abnormal,” one unnamed portfolio manager told the FT. “It’s Monday morning, there’s no important data today, there aren’t any Fed speakers you’d want to front run. It’s an unusually large trade for a day with no event risk . . . Somebody just got a lot richer.” Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/traders-made-huge-bets-15-minutes-before-trumps-major-war-u-turn/).

We all know it was trump and his buddies insider trading.

TIL market manipulation is legal now. All crime is legal, unless you’re not the Epstein class.

They do this with the tariff announcements last year too and there were zero consequences so why would they stop doing it now

Literally gambling with the lives of our troops. Are you happy now, MAGAts?

do we really have to pretend we're naive idiots every time they do something like this? how many crimes before the media says the word crime? how many lies before they say the word lie?

It’s fascinating to watch the world’s largest economy so quickly transform into a pyramid scheme and investment bubble.

We’re going to discover one day that this administration is the most significant financial criminal organization in American history.

He's been manipulating the market the entire time to line his friends pockets. What do you think the tariffs are about? Announce a tariff and tank the market, give your friends a few days to buy in, announce you are lifting the tariffs, all your friends can now sell what they bought when you tanked the market. It's blatantly obvious what he's doing.

Nothing new. We had weekends last year when he even wrote "time to buy" and even congratulated openly those who made explicitly stated sums over the weekend. They are not even hiding it. They have been consistently doing it for almost 1.5 years - look at the timing of the big announcements, the timing of the TACOing, and so on... and by now they are deliberately stating false nonsense then retracting (just some days ago the opening of the straight then the post got deleted and so on).

Oh look, more blatant corruption

"It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club." Get real... nobody is 'confronting' anybody.

I mean, this is what..like...the 5th time he's been caught doing this already this term?

America, the rest of us are so tired of this. Holy shit. Jail these morons and install a working government already. Hold them accountable, and then actually enforce anti-corruption policies. The word "democracy" used to mean something to you.

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F*** these corrupt fucks

Don Jr. is on the board of Polymarket. That's all you need to know.

There will be no repercussions for any of this

This trade wasn't just a one-off, random, "whisper" once situation. It was the act of a consolidated, organized network of billionaire criminals who have been doing this for a long time. This is what they do. This is who they are. This is how they have operated their entire lives. Epsteinians are life-long, sadistic, megalomaniacal satanist opportunists who kill, steal, r***, lie and murder like the rest of us snack, watch TV, browse the internet & brush our teeth. And they will keep doing it. At every opportunity. And you will do nothing about it. No one will stop it. No one will do anything. It will go on. And you will forget about it. And I will forget about it. And everyone will just forget about it. And they will get away with it. Like they always do.

Someday, historians will look back at this and acknowledge it as the largest market manipulation scandal in history.

Oddly, I'm seeing nothing about this on Fox News /s

Was it Baron? I heard he's good with computer.

I actually think it's less about friends of friends profiting and more about the Trump administration manipulating the markets for political gain. I think they saw the markets tanking to start the week and said we need a two step approach. In addition to a presidential tweet that they will try to retcon to be true later they need buy pressure on equities and sell pressure on oil. The money could have come from Scott Bessant directly out of the Treasury for all we know.

Most corrupt government ever.

Ah yes, this administration's one weakness - being confronted.

Insider Trading is legal if you're a paedophile Nazi president.

Most corrupt administration in modern history. Truly abhorrent. Vote November 3rd. Put it in your calendar and shame your friends into coming with you.

Trump, renowned pedophile and rapist, is also a con man.

how is it not obvious they are creating situations then profiting off them... most obviously corrupt presidency of history

We can yell out every wrong they do but in the end, nothing will ever get done to prosecute or punish them in any way.

And not a single person is going to ever go to prison.

War as a market signal -truly the American way.

Surely agent Krasnov wouldn't be manipulating oil prices and sanctions for personal profit...

It was Barron Trump. He's been leveraging his way up for the whole term.

Sleaze king. Running a rogue, aggressor nation. JFC. What a colossal tragedy.

He’s going to need to release the Epstein files as a distraction.

It's maddening, but to be expected at this point. When there are literally no consequences for any of it, why would you stop?

Investors will lose confidence in US markets eventually and start pulling their money out for more reliable investments. Trump is notoriously short sighted, selfish and blinded by greed so of course he is betting on being long gone by the time his corruption catches up with all of us.

Insider trading is stealing. They are not only stealing from their own citizens, but everyone globally. A lot of this money is probably from regular peoples pension funds.

Just document the people and wait until this regime changes. Best we can do.

Former c***** owner running your country....what would you expect?

The United States is a Kleptocracy.

MAGAs: "BuT hE dOnAtEs HiS wHoLe SaLaRy!"

If this doesn't immediately make you want to commit revolutionary acts of violence against your tyrannical government, then you hate your country.

Hey morons of Reddit. The Iran war is a money maker, a grift. You know that right? Trump, his family, his friends, his billionaires, his cabinet, his Republican Congress are making a fortune off this “war”. Every decision is intentional, and always has been. Remember his first term? Stocks would be traded based on his tweets. This isn’t new. And more than half the country chose this, they wanted this. They are loving every minute of his cruelty and grifting is just a side effect they are fine with. This is now the USA, it’s who we became and it’s how we will be for generations to come. You’re welcome, a CA voter who’s vote has never meant a damn thing in any presidential election, but I still voted for Harris because I’m not an idiot.

Golden rule: one who has the gold makes the rules

Very swamp-like

The swamp is alive and well

Confronted with what, wagging fingers?

Confronted is a strong word for 'literally done nothing about'

Profiting of their own war crimes and other people's suffering. Absolutely loathsome.