The problem with that one is lying to the public to move markets, that's actually a crime. it's illegal to deliberately try to manipulate the markets. the securities and exchange commission says that kind of behavior is against federal law. for the record, it's also a crime for a president or anyone to falsify a weather forecast, like, say, a hurricane tracking map, like he did today when he held up this doctored map in the oval office. as meteorologist matthew cappucci points out today, and andrew freidman at the washington post point out, per 18 u.s. code section 2074, whoever knowingly publ...