WH slams Dems' 'partisan games' after Trump-foe Schiff calls for insider trading investigation over tariffs | Fox News
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The White House slammed Democrats for playing "partisan games" and calling for an investigation into alleged insider trading after President Donald Trump paused customized reciprocal tariffs for 90 days on Wednesday.
"It is the responsibility of the President of the United States to reassure the markets and Americans about their economic security in the face of nonstop media fearmongering. Democrats railed against China's cheating for decades, and now they're playing partisan games instead of celebrating President Trump's decisive action yesterday to finally corner China," White House spokesman Kush Desai said in comment to Fox Digital when asked about Democrats claiming Trump manipulated the market.
Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., wrote a letter on Thursday to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, as well as Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, calling for an investigation into potential insider trading.
"This sequence of events raises grave legal and ethics concerns. The President, his family, and his advisors are uniquely positioned to be privy to and take advantage of non-public information to inform their investment decisions," the senators wrote.
President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event titled "Make America Wealthy Again" in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2.(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump, ahead of pausing the reciprocal tariffs, posted to Truth Social, "BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!" and "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT." The president had previously said he would not pause tariffs but was open to negotiating with other nations.
Trump paused only the higher, customized tariffs he placed on nations that historically installed trade barriers on U.S. goods, with nations across the world instead facing a lower 10% tariff on goods, as the Trump administration and world leaders hash out negotiations for the reciprocal tariffs.
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., wrote a letter calling for an investigation into potential insider trading.(Screenshot/NBC)
China, however, was not part of the tariff pause and was instead hit with a higher 125% tariff after retaliating with its own additional tariffs against the U.S.
"I'm going to do my best to find out," Schiff, who has long been a Trump foe, told Time of investigating the president for alleged insider trading. "Family meme coins and all the rest of it are not beyond insider trading or enriching themselves. I hope to find out soon."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the customized tariffs were paused due to Trump wanting to be "personally involved" in negotiations as dozens of nations contacted the White House to strike deals.
President Donald Trump is keeping high tariffs in place on China, while putting a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for countries that have said they are open to negotiation.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
"We've had more than 75 countries contact us. And I imagine after today, there will be more. So it is just a processing problem. Each one of these solutions is going to be bespoke. It is going to take some time. And President Trump wants to be personally involved. So, that's why we're getting the 90-day pause," Bessent said during a gaggle with the media outside the White House on Wednesday afternoon.
Trump added on Wednesday that he was watching the volatile bond market, calling it "tricky" and making people a "little queasy," but denied it persuaded him to change course on customized tariffs.
"I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy. You know, they we're getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid, unlike these champions, because we have a big job to do. No other president would have done what I did. … I know the presidents, they wouldn't have done it, and it had to be done," Trump added in his remarks.
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What happens if you are a lying piece of shit democrat? You get promoted from the House to the Senate if you are from a shithole like California.
Lol. I love how you guys pretend the elephant is not in the room while flailing around pointing at anything but the elephant and berating anything but the elephant.
Many very rich Dems in Congress, Biden and Bernie being among them
Does this dumbass think that an investigation would only focus on one side? Is he really this stupid?
Yes.
No. He's no doubt quite aware how these investigations work. An open investigation wouldn't bother someone with nothing to hide. Schiff is not a convicted felon. Schiff has never been found guilty of financial fraud or have his charity foundation closed and fined for millions due to rampant fraud, none of his businesses were ever sued or his CFO found guilty of tax fraud. Funny how the Trump sycophants are quick to circle their wagons around their boss though. They just can't get enough kneeling and groveling to the liar-in-chief.
His actions show otherwise.
His actions show he puts country over a lying criminal blowhard unlike the sad brain damaged bigots who continue to support a convicted felon grifter and accused rapist no matter how much damage he inflicts on our country and economy. It's also hilarious that some rando would be trying to claim they know more about how congressional investigations function than a guy with decades as an attorney, prosecuted the FBI agent Richard Miller who was a Russian asset, spent a dozen years in congress and is now a US Senator. And just because a bunch of Trump loyalist shit suckers in congress censured with a moronic party line vote to prove their loyalty to the shit stain convicted felon does not in any way tarnish Senator Schiff's record and legacy.
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I went through many of Shifty Schiff's tweets looking for his condemnation of insider trading by Pelosi, and surprise s/, I couldn't find any.
Funny thing is, there is undeniable inside trading by Pelosi and her husband and dumbass Schiff is still grasping for straws since he never produced and of that "undeniable" evidence of Russian collusion.
What you cannot remember and cannot find evidence of other people not doing and not saying in not relevant, and not even a real thing...
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