{"id":912661,"date":"2026-07-04T20:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/912661\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:06:20","slug":"trump-made-327-stock-buys-right-before-he-sent-the-market-soaring-with-tariffs-pause-disclosure-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/912661\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump made 327 stock buys right before he sent the market soaring with tariffs pause, disclosure reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump made 327 stock purchases<\/a> a day before his announcement that he was pausing his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs, sending the markets soaring, his financial disclosure report <\/a>reveals.<\/p>\n

The purchases were made on April 8, 2025, six days after Trump initiated a global trade war on April 2, <\/a>slapping import taxes on goods from nearly every other country, which saw the markets tumble. <\/p>\n

Trump bought between $100,001 and $250,000 in shares of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia on April 8, according to CNBC analysis<\/a> of his financial disclosure.<\/p>\n

Then, on the morning of April 9 before the markets opened, the president posted on Truth Social<\/a>, \u201cThis is a GREAT time to move your COMPANY into the United States of America, like Apple, and so many others, in record numbers, are doing.\u201d A few minutes before the markets opened, he posted, \u201cTHIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Later that morning, he announced he was pausing the trade tariffs for 90 days, and<\/a> tech companies, including the ones Trump purchased stock in, saw their shares rebound. <\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump made 327 stock purchases a day before his announcement that he was pausing his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs, which sent the markets soaring, his financial disclosure report reveals (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s value had dropped four consecutive days on April 8, but jumped more than 15 percent on April 9, according to CNBC. Chipmaker Nvidia, which had shed more than 1 percent of its value on April 8, then rallied nearly 19 percent the next day, earning Trump a hefty windfall.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court struck down Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs in February, ruling that he does not have the authority to unilaterally impose them on nations under a federal emergency powers law.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s disclosure report has revealed that he\u2019s made $2.2 billion during his second term, with $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency assets \u2014 an unprecedented windfall for a president, experts said. <\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.<\/p>\n

The moves and others by Trump and his eldest sons have sparked concerns about potential conflict of interest and abuse of power for self-enrichment. But White House spokesperson Anna Kelly denied any conflict of interest, telling CNBC that Trump \u201chas a lot of assets because he was a massively successful businessman\u201d before he became president. \u201cAll of the President\u2019s assets are held in fully discretionary accounts managed by independent third-party financial institutions,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cThere are no conflicts of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TradersTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 9, 2025, after Trump announced he was pausing the trade tariffs for 90 days (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Trump brushed off concerns that he was profiting on the presidency this week, telling reporters that his children and outside parties manage his finances. \u201cI don\u2019t get involved in my personal… we have funds that run my money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The timing of the purchases has led to accusations of \u201ccorruption\u201d from Democrats. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis grift and corruption is staggering. Accountability is coming,\u201d said Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first year of his presidency, Trump made more money than in the rest of his life combined,\u201d said Sen. Adam Schiff of California. \u201cMeanwhile, most Americans worked hard to just break even. This is the cost of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem that I think Trump and the Republicans have is that they think that because they\u2019re transparent, and putting it out there, it\u2019s not corrupt,\u201d Democratic strategist Meghan Hays, who worked in the Biden administration, told The Hill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":912662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,32720,1005,80,272107,67,132,68,2058],"class_list":["post-912661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dc","tag-horizontal","tag-politics","tag-topshots","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116863512824841681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}