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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