Can you imagine how much fun discovery will be for The Atlantic's lawyers. It will never get that far, but it would be fun.

That about sums it up.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

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Donald Trump illegally levied $166 billion worth of taxes on American companies, slowed the American economy, re-ignited inflation, and somehow he is still in office.

"Mar-a-Lago Mafia" is a very good line.

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— Trump calls Ravid directly to project deal-is-close optimism, Ravid's sourced reporting simultaneously describes gaps that make a deal unlikely — has now repeated often enough to be its own story.

The Trump quotes to Axios have consistently run ahead of what Axios's own reporting on the underlying negotiations supports. Barak Ravid is the byline on nearly every one of these pieces, and the pattern —

That's nine instances of Axios reporting Trump optimism about an imminent deal across a six-week stretch — and in the same window, the April 12 Pakistan talks collapsed, Trump announced a naval blockade, and Iran re-closed the Strait of Hormuz twice.

April 19 (Sunday, today): Trump-to-Axios phone interview — "I feel fine about it. The concept of the deal is done. I think we have a very good chance to get it completed," he said

April 17 (Friday): Trump-to-Axios phone interview — "The Iranians want to meet. They want to make a deal. I think a meeting will probably take place over the weekend. I think we will get a deal in the next day or two," he said in a brief phone interview

April 16 (Thursday): Axios reports Trump saying "We are very close to making a deal. If no deal, fire resumes" Axios and that he is willing to extend the ceasefire.

April 15 (Wednesday): Axios reports the two sides are moving closer to a framework agreement to end the war, two U.S. officials said Axios, with Vance saying he felt "very good about where we are."

April 7 (Tuesday, deadline day): Axios reports "Progress has been made in the past 24 hours in the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran" Axios with the White House shifting from whether a deal was possible to whether it could close by 8pm.

"There is a good chance, but if they don't make a deal, I am blowing up everything over there," he said

April 5 (Sunday): Trump-to-Axios phone interview — Trump claimed in an interview with Axios that the U.S. is "in deep negotiations" with Iran and that a deal can be reached before his deadline expires on Tuesday.

April 1 (Wednesday): Axios reports that the U.S. and Iran are discussing a potential deal that would involve a ceasefire in exchange for Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz, three U.S. officials tell Axios Axios, with Trump publicly claiming Iran had asked for a ceasefire.

A companion Axios piece the same day headlines that Trump teased Monday that he's moving closer a deal with Iran to end the war

March 23 (Monday): Axios reports that Trump told reporters his envoys had been negotiating with a senior Iranian official and claimed the parties agreed on many points Axios, walking back his Hormuz strike threat.

This is framed as ending the war militarily rather than through a negotiated deal, but it is the first Axios report in the window where Trump claims an endgame is near.

March 11 (Wednesday): Axios publishes a phone interview in which Trump told Axios that the war with Iran will end "soon" because there is "practically nothing left to target.""Little this and that... Any time I want it to end, it will end," Trump said Axios.

Good God, even Claude AI sees the pattern from Axios. It may not be every Sunday, but this should be embarrassing.

Don't understand how traders trade these market with all the misinformation, much of it coming from the White House, let alone Iran. Also don't understand the lack of outrage about apparent insider trading ahead of the President's pronouncements. How are the exchanges themselves not investigating?

Fed Gov. Waller was prescient Friday when he said (after the President said the Strait is open) that oil and securities market appeared to be "undervaluing the risk that the conflict continues, the Strait remains closed, and disruptions to production and shipping keep energy prices high."

He's going to file a lawsuit, just like Trump does and when they get to start discovery, he will magically decide that a lawsuit isn't the way to go and will pull it. Or, just wait for a judge to throw it out. Discovery here would be legendary.

If the corporate media weren't so damn incompetent, they could just look back over the last 6 Sunday's and see what Axios dutifully reports every fuc&ing time. It's a goddamn market manipulation every Sunday night. It's embarrassing how bad the media is. @cnn @nytimes @washingtonpost.com

They run back the same playbook with the same players every Sunday.

Sunday Hopium - The Strait Remains Closed, Trump Is More Far More Mad Than King, Farmers Are Really Struggling in America Virginia Votes Tuesday - Let's Close Strong Everyone!

It has become pretty clear that Trump is now far more mad than King.

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So we get multiple conflicting reports, including from Trump himself, that Vance is or is not leading the US delegation for peace talks on Tuesday, then we get multiple reports from Iran state media that they have no plans to attend peace talks on Tues & didn’t know about it.

Please read this thread. Of course Trump surrendered.