Raphael Warnock: “Hundreds of millions of dollars in trading out of the blue…”

“There was a huge spike in trading volume for oil contracts. And you know what? This was at 3:42am 3:42 in the morning. Think about that. Hundreds of millions of dollars in trading out of the blue at three in the morning, minutes before a major White House announcement that sent the price plummeting. These are not isolated incidents. We've seen this happen over and over again. And it's become abundantly clear that some people are making massive amounts of money potentially trading off of insider information about this war.” (02:16–02:30)

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