Trump’s DOJ Investigating Suspiciously Well-Timed Trades

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The Daily Beast

Kevin Lamarque / Kevin Lamarque/ReutersThe Department of Justice is investigating several trades curiously timed around major announcements from Donald Trump regarding his war with Iran.At least four traders made a combined 2.6 billion in the oil market by wagering that oil prices would drop shortly before Trump made major moves, according to trade data from the London Stock Exchange Group shared with ABC News.In one instance, traders bet more than half a billion dollars that oil prices would fall—just 15 minutes before the president, 79, announced he was holding off on threatened energy grid strikes against Iran on March 23.