Elizabeth Warren and other senators urge SEC to look into whether president engaged in market manipulationUS politics live – latest updatesSeveral senior Senate Democrats have written a letter asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate whether Donald Trump violated securiti es laws and engaged in insider trading and market manipulation while switching course on his global tariffs.“We urge the SEC to investigate whether the tariff announcements, which caused the market crash and subsequent partial recovery, enriched administration insiders and friends at the expense of the American public and whether any insiders, including the president’s family, had prior knowledge of the tariff pause that they abused to make stock trades ahead of the president’s announcement,” said the letter, led by the Massachusetts senator and former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. Continue reading... ...read more read less