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Trump’s Insider Trading So Obvious Even White House Calls It 'Baseless'

KEY POINTS

  • Minutes before Trump announced pauses or strikes, suspicious trading spikes totaling hundreds of millions occurred.
  • The Trump family’s crypto ventures attracted billion-dollar investments from controversial foreign elites including an SEC settler and Emirati royal.
  • The Justice Department’s corruption prosecution team was devastated from 36 lawyers to just two amid growing insider trade allegations.

Forget subtlety: minutes before Trump paused strikes on Iranian power plants, $580 million in oil futures zoomed through the market like it was Black Friday at a Wall Street outlet. On January 2nd, someone turned $32,000 into $400,000 betting on Maduro’s capture, before Trump even sent the 'Mission Accomplished' text. Over 150 Polymarket accounts bulled up on a U.S. strike prediction just hours before the war’s ignition. Meanwhile, Trump family crypto ventures raked in billions with shady allies like a Chinese mogul who settled SEC fraud charges and an Emirati royal lobbying for AI chips. And if you think pardons aren’t for sale, think again: one donor’s $3.5 million super PAC gift was rewarded with clemency. But hey, White House spokesman Kush Desai, just a guy who calls blatant trading 'baseless and irresponsible,' promises ethics are 'sound,' and SEC’s top cop conveniently quit after being told to chill on Trump cases. Fun fact: the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section was gutted from 36 lawyers to two. Because when you fight corruption, less is more.

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Source: Axios | Published: 3/25/2026 | Author: Zachary Basu

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