The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

π˜Ώπ™žπ™™ 𝙏𝙧π™ͺ𝙒π™₯ π™₯π™ͺ𝙑𝙑 𝙖𝙣 π™žπ™‘π™‘π™šπ™œπ™–π™‘ π™₯π™ͺ𝙒π™₯ & 𝙙π™ͺ𝙒π™₯ 𝙀𝙣 π™©π™π™š π™Žπ™©π™€π™˜π™  π™ˆπ™–π™§π™ π™šπ™©? "This is a scenario that could expose the president to accusations that he engaged in market manipulation," Richard Painter, a government ethics professor at University of Minnesota's law school and the former chief ethics counsel to President George W. Bush, tells NBC News. Kathleen Clark, a government ethics and corruption professor at the Washington University School of Law, tells the New York Times that Trump's posts should trigger a probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying, "If we still had a rule of law, a robust system for the rule of law, it would be investigated." By Trump's own admission, he was thinking yesterday morning about reverting the tariffs – so the signal he was sending to his followers was pretty clear.

In a video released by the White House yesterday afternoon, Trump can be seen gesturing to two corporate executives, and heard saying, "he made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million. That's not bad." It also turned out to be "the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."

Too bad for everybody else.

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4 months ago | [YT] | 5,023



@henryschilling1120

He absolutely did it. The problem is absolutely NOTHING will be done.

4 months ago | 453

@kbmariontv1736

It doesn’t matterβ€”when has Trump been held accountable for anything?

4 months ago | 553

@stevenevol6304

You're asking if the man found guilty of 34 felony counts of business Fraud might try a scam?

4 months ago | 223

@speedracer9132

Cool I’m so excited for nothing to be done about it and he face zero accountability

4 months ago | 345

@eklectrikmusic

Just at the opposite. A Tank and Bank. Break it down and buy it up. Robber Barron 101.

4 months ago | 147

@markjerorsr1495

Of course he did...and there ain't a frickin thing anyone's gonna do about it. He just provided the ultimate answer as to why our SS checks should never be privatized.

4 months ago | 114

@fightthepowerman

Probably would have been better to not re-elect him

4 months ago | 25

@richardvanasse9287

Why investigate when it's not illegal if the president does it. Thanks Supreme Court.

4 months ago | 112

@denasigman511

And??? Considering he wasn't held accountable for 34 felony convictions, who in their right mind thinks he would be held accountable for this??

4 months ago | 105

@Maria-n9l5l

If we don’t file a complaint we are just as guilty.

4 months ago | 6

@leahtaylor4503

Absolutely πŸ’― He's a criminal pure and simple 🀬

4 months ago | 14

@lbc5402

Lock him up. President or not. He's vile.

4 months ago | 3

@natus6244

It’s a moot point until the people of the United States decide to hold presidents accountable

4 months ago | 19

@chantalmarie423

America’s billionaires will let him go down after their record profits? Nah. The ruling class in the US runs this shit show.

4 months ago | 41

@John-x2y1w

And if he did all that will happen is people talking about that he did it. Until our congress and senate grow some balls and impeach him nothing will happen.

4 months ago | 7

@timothybarker3589

Does this administration even have an ethics council?

4 months ago | 2

@MartellAl

Perhaps. Either way, he’s behaving like my children β€” treating the economy like the battery door on the back of the remote. Sure, you can keep fiddling with the little plastic tab for a while and it will keep bouncing back, but eventually it’s going to break and the batteries are going to fall out. If he’s doing this on purpose β€” enriching himself and his associates β€” he needs to be removed from office, his assets seized, and he should be thrown in prison. If he’s only fiddling with the economy in this manner because he’s extremely stupid, he still needs to be removed from office. Are there any adults left in the room who can take the remote away from him?

4 months ago | 23

@fnord3125

if only laws still mattered

4 months ago | 21

@CynthiaLichtenwald-Penka

It's definitely a pump-n-dump! Classic Trump.

4 months ago | 4

@CrankyDoodleDandy

I’d love to see which politicians traded in stocks and shares during this crisis. Let’s see how drained that swamp really is πŸ€”

4 months ago | 7