On October 15, 2026, Bloomberg reported that CFTC investigators were ordered to retract their analysis of potential insider trading tied to the president, after billions in oil trades were executed just before Trump announced he would pull back on missile strikes on Iran. A senior CFTC advisor told investigators to retract the referral and throw it away. Subsequent reporting states that the White House ordered the CFTC to halt its oil manipulation probe. The discussion frames the episode alongside two other cases, an SEC investigator and a DOJ official, as a pattern of shut-down investigations.