New Delhi, April 10 -- United States Democratic Senator Adam Schiff has suggested that he will investigate if there was insider trading facilitated by US President Donald Trump's social media post encouraging followers to "buy", before he announced the tariffs pause that shot stock prices upwards.

Speaking to reporters in the Senate building, Adam Schiff said the investigation would check if there was insider trading with Donald Trump's announcement on pausing tariffs.

"Not much of a secret when the president tweets to the entire world to "BUY" 3 hours before the announcement," he told reporters.

"I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the president was gonna once again flip flop on tariffs? And are people ca...