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Why is donald trump allowing the stock market to crash? (Original Post) spanone Feb 2018 OP
He broke it, he owns it... HipChick Feb 2018 #1
It's the perfect question. Why isn't he on Wall Street hitting the bell or speaking about jobs? ffr Feb 2018 #2
Sue him. Remember this? Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #3
The pundits are hilarious today. "It's nothing! It's not anyone's fault! It's totally normal!" Squinch Feb 2018 #4
It is Obama's fault exboyfil Feb 2018 #6
You KNOW that's coming. Squinch Feb 2018 #7
Trump should fire the Dow Jones index Gothmog Feb 2018 #5
Oh don't worry. Trump is looking at the long term. lpbk2713 Feb 2018 #8
Just as pundits start trying to talk up Trump and repukes standingtall Feb 2018 #9

ffr

(22,674 posts)
2. It's the perfect question. Why isn't he on Wall Street hitting the bell or speaking about jobs?
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 05:16 PM
Feb 2018

It's as though he's in a bunker and out of touch.

Yonnie3

(17,500 posts)
3. Sue him. Remember this?
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 05:19 PM
Feb 2018

Edit to add. Should be a slam dunk suit since he is claiming responsibility.

Trump criticizes suspended ABC News reporter, suggests people should sue the network

...

In its corrected report, ABC News said it was after Trump became the president-elect that he told Flynn to contact Russian officials. The original story — which was part of a broader report on Flynn's guilty plea in the ongoing Russia investigation, and his promise to testify against Trump — caused the stock market to tumble last Friday.

"He drove the stock market down 350 points in minutes," Trump said at the Friday night rally. "When you think of it, you know what he cost people? And I said to everybody 'get yourself a lawyer and sue ABC News.'"

...


http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rips-abc-news-reporter-brian-ross-suggests-a-lawsuit-2017-12

and a bunch of hard right sources including breitbart

Squinch

(51,026 posts)
4. The pundits are hilarious today. "It's nothing! It's not anyone's fault! It's totally normal!"
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 05:21 PM
Feb 2018

I believe they truly don't understand the true cause: the world that voted for the republican president, which is where many investors live, has finally begun to realize that they put a person with the intelligence of a doorstop in the white house.

They're insisting there is no "worsening in the fundamentals" so hard, that I think they realize in their little pea brains that there is a big worsening in the most fundamental of the fundamentals.

lpbk2713

(42,769 posts)
8. Oh don't worry. Trump is looking at the long term.
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 05:31 PM
Feb 2018



That's how the Trumplets put it recently. The long term,
of course is when everyone is broke and out of work.

standingtall

(2,787 posts)
9. Just as pundits start trying to talk up Trump and repukes
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 05:35 PM
Feb 2018

for the mid-terms with the tax cuts are in place and people feel it narrative the stock market begins to taking a nose dive. So we are officially in correction territory? How many more days like this will it take to declare that we are past correction territory?

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