#MARKETS: SMEARING WITHOUT EVIDENCE. LIZ PEEK THE HILL. FOX NEWS AND FOX BUSINESS
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my colleague Elizabeth Peake, |
| 0:06.3 | writes a column for the Hill, a comment for Fox News, |
| 0:08.4 | and she has a column up at Fox News right now |
| 0:10.3 | that I did not know the happenstance, |
| 0:13.2 | but I read it, and I think to myself, okay, |
| 0:16.9 | maybe he's running for president. |
| 0:18.3 | This is Corey Booker, the senior senator from New Jersey. |
| 0:22.9 | And Cory Booker is alleging that members of the Trump administration front ran the market for that |
| 0:29.9 | big burst of energy last week, the relief rally. Front running means you buy stocks knowing something |
| 0:35.8 | goods can happen and then you sell |
| 0:37.7 | at the top and pocket the cash. |
| 0:40.2 | And I didn't know he'd said it, Liz, and then you said he didn't have any evidence. |
| 0:44.5 | He wants a congressional hearing. |
| 0:46.2 | What's he doing, making that scale of allegation? |
| 0:49.6 | Well, I think, first of all, Corey Booker's light, you know, time in the sunshine has only happened when he has sort of, when he pulls stunts. |
| 0:59.5 | He's sort of a showman. |
| 1:00.6 | I mean, obviously the last thing was this 25-hour filibuster that he performed on the Senate floor. |
| 1:06.5 | It wasn't filibustering anything, which is sort of the normal thing. |
| 1:09.3 | He was just standing there for 25 hours spouting anti-Trump creeds and got a lot of attention for it. Cory Booker wants to |
| 1:18.1 | run for president. And the only way he's going to be able to do that probably is through this |
| 1:22.8 | kind of stunt doing or showmanship. So yeah, there were several representatives in the House of Representatives |
| 1:30.6 | sent a letter to the head of the SEC and to a couple of other people saying, hey, you know, |
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