AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - Mysterious trading patterns follow Trump into war
Data: Yahoo Finance; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals An epidemic of suspicious trading has emerged around President Trump's most consequential decisions — each time, just minutes or hours before he rattles global markets, according to exchange data. Why it matters: As the Iran war sends prices soaring for ordinary Americans, a select few appear to be profiting in plain sight. It's precisely the kind of alleged corruption Trump built his political career railing against . - Democrats, favored to win the House in November, already are laying the groundwork for investigations into whether insiders are trading on Trump's market-moving decisions. Zoom in: The pattern has become impossible to ignore, spanning both traditional financial…