Mystery covers a series of unusual, recorded minutes before the announcement that “destroy” the markets. While the war in Iran weighs on consumers, an elite investor appears to know the US president’s moves in advance.
According to a report by Axios, this “epidemic” of suspicious financial transactions has erupted around his most critical decisions. In fact, stock market data shows that every time the president prepares to cause an “earthquake” in global markets, mammoth moves precede it, sometimes just minutes or hours in advance.
Because it matters
As the war with Iran skyrockets prices for the average American, a select few appear to be profiting in plain sight. This is exactly the kind of corruption that Trump has built his political career against.
Democrats, seen as favorites to take control of the House in November, are already preparing the ground for investigations into whether insiders are taking advantage of classified information.
The eye-catching pattern
This trend is now impossible to ignore as it extends from traditional markets to prediction platforms:
- Oil: Last Monday, $580 million in futures flooded the market 16 minutes before Trump announced a halt to strikes on Iranian energy plants.
- Betting predictions: Shortly before the start of the war, over 150 Polymarket accounts bet massively on a US attack on Iran.
- Venezuela: In January, a trader “raised” 32,000 dollars to over 400,000, betting on the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, shortly before it was announced.
- Duties: Last April, a “burst” of stock markets occurred minutes before the suspension of “Liberation Day” tariffs.
The White House’s response
“Any suggestion that government officials are involved in such activity without evidence is unfounded,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said. Nevertheless, the reality remains murky, as the anonymity of the accounts makes it difficult to trace the identity of speculators.
Family businesses and billions
While there is no evidence that Trump himself knew about the transactions, his presidency has coincided with massive business activity by allies and family members:
- Crypto: The Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture has made billions.
- Defense: His sons, Eric and Donald Jr., have invested in drone companies vying for Pentagon contracts.
- Private Funds: His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is seeking to siphon billions from war-torn Gulf governments.
Weakening of control mechanisms
At the same time, the Trump administration appears to be systematically dismantling the mechanisms for prosecuting financial crime. The Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Division was shrunk from 36 attorneys to just two, while 159 federal enforcement actions against companies, many of them Trump donors, were dropped in 2025.
The “other side” and the pending promise
The administration counters that it is aggressively pursuing fraud in federal programs through a new task force under Vice President Vance, though critics note that the audits are focused almost exclusively on Democratic-controlled states.
Trump came to power promising to dismantle a system “rigged” in favor of the rich. Many of his constituents are still waiting to see that promise come true.
