MSNBC seems to have found their latest outlet for their Trump-bashing fixation in the far-fetched conspiracy theory that the president’s recent tariff impositions were all a setup for insider trading beneficial to him and his close associates. On Thursday’s episode of The 11th Hour, host Stephanie Ruhle fleshed out this idea on the spot, based on the flimsiest of evidence, and refused to drop it even when her own panel tried to bring her down to earth a little.

“Well,” Ruhle began on the subject: 

[L]et's talk about the other thing that Donald Trump… did, for Wall Street this morning…. [H]e puts out a tweet this morning, that says… ‘Buy the market. Stocks are cheap- DJT.’... What happens two, three hours later? He makes the pause announcement, and the market rallies 3,000 points. I'm not accusing anyone of insider trading-

But she went right on to insinuate just that:

But on any Earth that I have lived on, before now, that would warrant some sort of investigation by the SEC, of who knew what when, in the administration, who bought what when?