Instead of seeing the 90-day pause on tariffs for most of the world and the rallying stock market as a sign of trade negotiations going well, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin used her platform on Thursday’s edition of The View to accuse President Trump of “certainly” being “guilty of insider trading.” Her evidence? A social media post vaguely touting the market.
“I got to tell you, I think what's fascinating to me is that the corruption is just completely out in the open at this point,” Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, proclaimed.
According to Hostin, Trump’s post on Truth Social, which didn’t give information on what stocks to buy/when/other information needing for trading, was evidence of Trump committing a federal offence:
You know, because these kind of actions where Trump tweeted out before this little pause, he said, ‘this is a great time to buy.’ And that's really a whistle to those billionaires that can -- or people that have money that can buy low and then the stock market, prices go up. That's generally called insider trading and that would ordinarily trigger an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Hostin lamented that Trump wouldn’t be prosecuted for it. “We know now that that's not probably going to happen because all of these government agencies have been, you know, destroyed and dismantled,” she asserted, effectively creating the narrative as to why nothing would happen to Trump, rather than the fact that he didn’t commit a crime.
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