More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging

Insider Trading in the Trump Administration?

Republished with permission from ProPublica, by Robert Faturechi, Pratheek Rebala and Brandon Roberts The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key official in the agency that shapes his administration’s trade policy sold off as much as $30,000 of stock. Two days before that so-called “Liberation Day” announcement on April 2, a State Department official sold as much as $50,000 i…

More than a dozen US officials sold stocks before Trump’s tariffs sent the market plunging

Ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.

Revealed: More than a dozen US officials sold stocks before Trump’s tariffs sent market plunging

The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key official in the agency that shapes his administration’s trade policy sold off as much as $30,000 of stock.Two days before that so-called “Liberation Day” announcement on April 2, a State Department official sold as much as $50,000 in stock, then bought a similar investment as prices fell.And just before Trump made another significant…

More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging

Even if the officials had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.

Over a Dozen Officials Dumped Stocks Just as Trump Crashed the Market

Quite a few Trump officials knew exactly when to sell their stocks ahead of major Trump announcements.

The American president has given the stock market a rollercoaster with his game of tariffs. But while the “street” and pension funds are losing money and nerves, the White House is having a party. It just turned out that another politician from Trump’s circle made the right move at the right time. Exemplary intuition or reprehensible insider trading?