Someone knew the hit on Trump was coming.
Data appears to show unusual market activity in former President Donald Trump’s stock, DJT, ahead of Saturday’s failed assassination attempt, prompting concerns about possible foreknowledge of the event and insider trading.
One trend highlighted on social media involved an “extreme disparity” in trading volume regarding the Trump Media & Technology Group Corp stock (DJT) on the Friday before the assassination attempt compared to the previous day, with shares traded increasing from 3.9 million to 35.6 million.
I may have found something potentially important.
— Champagne Joshi (@JoshWalkos) July 17, 2024
Can someone please explain to me the extreme disparity between trade Volume and the Day High for Trump’s stock #DJT for Thursday, July 11th and Friday, July 12th (the day before the assassination attempt).
This is directly from… pic.twitter.com/6MYKUiDRd0
As X user @JoshWalkos pointed out, data provided by TMTG Corp. shows a day trading high of $15,638.32 on 7/12/2024 – a day before the failed attempt on Trump – with the previous day’s high only trading at $30.31.
“That Friday High has to be a mistake right?” the user wrote. “Even it is, the extreme swing in volume should definitely warrant further investigation. That is an 801% increase in one day. The day before the attempt on Trumps life.” [sic]
The spike in trading activity came as the DJT stock was being heavily shorted just one day before the assassination attempt, a bizarre anomaly noted on Wednesday by financial media outlet Finbold.
After an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, which sent shockwaves through the U.S. political landscape, Trump Media (NASDAQ: DJT) shares surged more than 60% in the early trading hour on Monday before retracing by 20% to the valuation of $36.89 at the latest close on July 16.
However, a fact bound to raise a few questions is that short positions against Truth Social stock doubled between July 1 and July 12, going from 7 to 15 million shares, in what was a record of shares shorted for DJT stock since its trading debut.
Finbold noted, “This surge indicates that individuals or large organizations anticipated a significant drop in the stock’s value by July 15, a scenario that would likely have materialized had President Trump died in Pennsylvania.”
BREAKING: WHO KNEW THE HIT WAS COMING: $DJT SHORTS SKYROCKETED THE WEEK BEFORE THE HIT.
— WiseGuys (@JohnnyTabacco) July 16, 2024
FOLLOW THE SHORTS: $DJT shorts went from 7M to 15M from July 1 -July 12.
They thought Monday morning Trump would be dead.
Who shorted Millions of shares the week before the HIT JOB?… pic.twitter.com/z0IQFvuUdY
Since the attempt, interest in shorting DJT appears to have lessened.
“Looking at the current level of DJT stock short-interest, it has subsided substantially,” Finbold writes. “It fell to 11.27%, with 5,219,586 shares being shorted at an average coverage of less than one day.”
“This means that the stock is no longer experiencing high short interest, as it did last week.”
NEW: Soon-to-be unmasked entities bet that President Trump’s $DJT stock would plummet ONE DAY before the assassination attempt.
— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) July 17, 2024
Shorts against the Truth Social stock more than doubled from July 1 -July 12, meaning, people or large organizations were predicting that by Monday… pic.twitter.com/axj41kmjpQ
Interestingly, similar stock trading anomalies were claimed to have occurred just days before the September 11, 2001, attacks, with American and United Airlines stocks seeing a surge in put options ahead of the tragedy.
Imagine 9/11, but the towers didn't come down, the planes were stopped, the explosives were found, the FAA gave laughably obvious untruthful excuses as to why terrorists managed to hijack the planes, the financial positions were uncovered, and Bush was caught
— Adam Gaertner 🇺🇸 (@veryvirology) July 18, 2024
That's where we are
As investigators probe the apparent Secret Service stand down, attention at whether greedy corrupt insiders had prior knowledge and were planning to profit off Trump’s death.
