Trump Asked Whether Anyone In His White House ‘was Giving Any Kind Of Tips’ To Wall Street On Trade Negotiations

President Donald Trump denied accusations that his administration is sharing “tips” on ongoing trade deals with Wall Street executives.

Trump was asked during a Friday press gaggle whether he could “commit” that no one in his administration was sharing such information, and the president said he could only commit to himself, but he doesn’t believe anyone would be doing such a thing.

“Can you commit that nobody on your financial team was giving any kind of tips to Wall Street executives about deals with India. There was some reporting yesterday that people had heads-up on Wall Street, possibly to make money. Can you commit that did not happen?” Trump was asked on Friday amid his trade negotiations with numerous countries.

“I can commit to myself. That’s all I can commit. I have thousands of people that work for me, but I can’t imagine anyone doing that. I have very honorable people. That I can say. So I can’t even imagine, but I haven’t even heard that,” the president said.

On Thursday, Fox Business senior correspondent Charles Gasparino reported on communication between the White House and “senior Wall Street execs.” The market has taken significant hits amid uncertainty surrounding the president’s tariffs.

“People inside the Trump White House are alerting Wall Street execs they are nearing an agreement in principle on trade with India, according to my sources who are senior Wall Street execs w ties to the White House,” he wrote on X. “No details on timing, and recall that we have been here before with Japan only to have the goal posts changed, and terms renegotiated. But if this holds, the India deal being envisioned will include agreed-upon goals, and issues that have been addressed and resolved as well as a deadline for the fully-baked trade pact, my sources say.”

Multiple critics quickly accused the White House of inappropriate communications with Wall Street, an implication Gasparino denied his reporting carried.

“If this is true, isn’t the big story that The White House gives Wall Street executives early heads up on trade negotiations, rather than the existence of the deals themselves?” Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal replied, echoing statements from other critics.

“Joe obviously has never reported on Wall Street; I broke all of the financial crisis stories because the White House was talking to Wall Street,” Gasparino wrote.

In a later post, he shot down critics making the leap to “insider trading” from “alerting” executives that new trade deals are nearing completion.

“Besides this NOT being insider trading (again I know a lot about this subject) where’s the progressive MSM outrage over the constant drumbeat of national security stuff thats leaked to newspapers?” he wrote. “All the phony investigations about Trump? All the political nobodies that got caught up in the lawfare during Trump 1 that ruined people’s lives, stuff that was obviously ‘leaked’ to do harm?”

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