I don't see this as new though, because market manipulation has always been there ,mostly they used to control and manipulate the market prices with their policies and rates. After Donald Trump assumed office, we expected that Bitcoin will have been name among the US crypto strategic reserve but we saw different cryptos get shot-listed which shows clearly shows that they're in for big manipulations since they can control liquidity of these named cryptos as those coins are not decentralized, they can easily rig their supply and demand.