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WahooMatt05

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I imagine a Fox and Friends producer might be getting ideas


If a producer puts together a bunch of pieces against a company that might trigger Trump, and airs the pieces on Fox and Friends, he could make a killing by shorting the predicted stock tumble.

But you're right. The ~$60B number was total loss since Trump's recent attacks started as of yesterday, it's not all Trump - facebook has some blame too - but a lot of it is Trump related. The cheerleading for and against individual companies is an awful precedent to set, which is why it was against the rules for Kellyane Conway to say 'Buy Ivanka's stuff.' For POTUS to do exponentially worse for and against certain companies is something I hope we don't get accustomed to. This type of stuff is one of the activities Presidents used to just not do, so there was no rule against it. Congress needs to make these types of things Presidents just didn't do illegal. We clearly can't rely on common sense and norms any more.

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Posted: 04/03/2018 at 5:00PM



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