r/news 20h ago

White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources

https://abcnews.com/US/white-house-teleprompter-operator-made-100k-betting-trumps/story?id=134764573
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u/JK_NC 19h ago

Prediction markets are just a bunch of insiders and chumps.

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u/the_jivest_turkey 18h ago

It's insane. I took the bait and went to the kalshi site to see what the deal was. People are even betting on what David Muir says on TV tonight. Like, specific words..

It's so wild. And predatory. And sad.

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u/Beginning_Book_2382 7h ago edited 1h ago

It's late-stage capitalism. Growth is not what it once was it seems and now we've resorted to shuffling money around the same group of people like some sort of financial shell game to simulate profits (e.g., insider trading, AI circular financing, etc) versus true growth from an organic economic tech boom

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u/Meatloaf0220 19h ago

And gambling addicts.

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u/More_Operation_588 17h ago

See chumps

I'm not saying I don't sympathize with addicts, but you can infinitely lose your money on sports betting or scratch offs, why would an addict resort to this type of gambling?

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u/BlackeeGreen 13h ago

Sports betting requires sporting news or events. Scratch offs require a trip to a store. Prediction markets are 24/7/365, it is an unlimited and continuous stream of gambling.

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u/BuryTheFacists 8h ago

…and money launderers

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u/Sharp-Calligrapher70 20h ago

…and yet, the lack of accountability from this administration (and government as a whole) continues. 

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u/youarenut 20h ago

Not just the admin but the government and the people too. No one’s doing anything, just letting the elites slowly eliminate us

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u/camshun7 20h ago

Its truly thee epitome of truth.

We ARE that patient lying on the hospital gurney, with the Japanese puffer fish poison in our blood, lying awake, during the autopsy.

Apologies to hammer house of horror

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u/No-Aide-3028 15h ago

But we can move like a few of our fingers (voting in the midterms to change everything)

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u/weededorpheus32 19h ago

Verily, yay

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u/camshun7 18h ago

Im obliged

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u/shinyappyrobin 19h ago

Are you saying the teleprompter guy is an "elitist"? I personally think it's kinda funny, and not really even sure it's illegal, online betting is such a new industry.

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u/sleep_tite 19h ago

Shouldn’t Kalshi be able to sue Perez since he violated their TOS as a private citizen? I would think gambling sites would slam the hammer on people who win on insider knowledge and the gov shouldn’t be too involved even though the CFTC was already.

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 19h ago

I thought insider trading was a point of pride and a feature for betting/gambling platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket.

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u/WhiteMorphious 17h ago

Their CEO literally argued it was a “truth machine” and people with insider knowledge “leveraging their knowledge” was a feature of that 

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u/Street_Anxiety2907 15h ago

Then why are they reporting him for fraud?

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u/fleegness 15h ago

Because it isn't supposed to benefit the poors.

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u/qman621 18h ago edited 18h ago

Insider trading is the only way anyone makes any money on those apps

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u/ADHDick_in_ur_mouth 18h ago

Why would they? They almost always make money on every bet. Kalshi did not bet against Perez. Kalshi created a platform to allow Perez to bet against other private citizens, and kalshi takes a cut of all of those transactions. This is oversimplified but basically how it works

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u/yourethegoodthings 15h ago

They are not the house, is probably the most oversimplified way I can put it.

They built a house and let people stay there.

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u/DazzlingRutabega 16h ago

Don't worry, didn't you read the part about:

"The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow," said White House spokesperson...

🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

"I'll uh, just check with the boys down at the Crime Lab. They uh, got uh, four more detectives working on the case. They've got us working in shifts."

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u/JussiesTunaSub 18h ago

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u/-MangoStarr- 17h ago

NOT fired though. Is he just going to come back when the smoke clears and continue doing w,e?

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u/Different_Wolf_764 16h ago

Once the boss gets his tribute it will be fine.

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u/BubbleGuttz 14h ago

“You gotta gimme a cut of this. Shit, I’d say the N-word on national television if it meant I’d get paid to say it.”

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u/SummonerSausage 14h ago

He's going to bet on whether or not he's allowed to come back.

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u/Radiant_History_9939 18h ago

yeah it feels like accountability is always promised but rarely shows up. people get tired of seeing the same pattern over and over.

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u/travelinTxn 17h ago

When you see those at the top grifting why not get yours too. This is why we need people in power who hold up at the minimum the appearance of decency.

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u/ObviouslyJoking 20h ago

Isn’t this the expected experience if you allow unregulated gambling on things that people have influence over? I don’t even understand how it’s wrong to bet on a sure thing. Maybe just don’t make this kind of gambling legal at all.

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u/HauntingUpstairs7014 20h ago

No, no no... you don't understand. These are PREDICTION MARKETS.

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u/orangeyougladiator 18h ago

They’re also regulated. <wink>

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u/wizzard419 17h ago

Provided you give king daddy his cut, you're okay. Granted, you could give him $20 off a 50k win and just tell him it's 60%.

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u/DaKrazie1 15h ago

He likes big numbers more, make it 600%.

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u/naivety_is_innocence 15h ago

"did you just say 'wink' out loud?"

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u/fascfoo 16h ago

YOU ARENT BETTING. YOU ARE "TRADING" on "PREDICTIONS"

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u/likeaffox 17h ago

That needs inside information to be predicted!

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u/Electric_jungle 19h ago

It would need to be heavily regulated, but it also just makes no sense to have be legal at all. There's no way to moderate an endless number of bets effectively. Sports betting? Sure. Lot of problems there too but at least it's a controlled environment where regulation could go somewhere.

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u/asdfghjkl15436 18h ago edited 18h ago

You can't regulate it. That's the point of a prediction market. If a big company in a normal stock market does something and you have insider knowledge, that's not necessarily indicative that the stock will go up or down, so at least there's some leeway. These prediction markets work on A/B - either it happens or it doesn't - and it's VERY easy to tilt it one way or the other without anybody having any idea.

This makes it especially dumb if you have things like "world leader dies" because it can lead into assassination markets. The whole thing is just dumb, dumb, dumb.

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u/Electric_jungle 18h ago

That's kinda what I'm hinting at. Regulation is essential but if it's impossible to regulate, well, keep it to the black market where it belongs.

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u/Snobolski 17h ago

You can't regulate it.

But if someone gives me a million-to-one odds, I'll put down a buck saying they'll eventually regulate it.

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u/vowelqueue 16h ago

But how do I know you aren't the guy in the Trump administration that's about to announce the new Prediction Market Regulation Administration.

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u/DaKrazie1 15h ago

Because no one in Trump's administration is gonna regulate something they can monetarily abuse. C'mon now.

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u/Unable-Log-4870 17h ago

Eh, I’ve long preferred the more indirect version of just setting up a large legal defense fund for anyone charged with assassinating person XXXX, who is currently alive. And then advertising the existence of the legal defense fund.

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u/OKOKFineFineFine 18h ago

Yeah, if you're calling it a prediction market, the whole point is to incentivize hidden information being used. This is exactly what's supposed to happen.

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u/BrianWonderful 16h ago

The fact that most of the "predictions" are for things within the next day also kind of reveals the lie. What's the benefit of extremely short term predictions other than short term bets on them?

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u/eeyore134 18h ago

He's not one of the chosen millionaires that are allowed to do it, though, so he might actually face consequences.

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u/Kershiser22 18h ago

Anybody who is placing bets on easily manipulable outcomes are idiots. (Unless they are the ones doing the manipulating, of course.)

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u/Unable-Log-4870 17h ago

This is my thought too. Why would you bet on this unless you either think you have inside information, or you KNOW you have inside information, or you have direct control over it?

Or I guess if you see the bets coming in, you could infer that someone else knows (or thinks they know) based on the bets, and then you could bet the same way.

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u/ghostofwalsh 17h ago

Looking at it another way, the people betting against the teleprompter guy certainly have a choice not to bet.

It's not exactly rocket science to know that the contents of Trump's speech are known to some before he speaks the words.

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u/RaymondLeggs 14h ago

I don't see wha the problem is, getting money every time he says "beautiful" "big" "Mutilization" "nasty woman" "nasty people" "sick people" "terrible people" "woke left" "hottest country" "best ever" because that's all he says.

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u/theLuminescentlion 17h ago

This is the designed behavior. Prediction markets transfer money from idiots to people with insider information therefore making the information public.

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u/essieecks 14h ago

TBH, Trump sticking to the script and teleprompter isn't a sure bet.

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u/AudibleNod 20h ago

"The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow," said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle

No, they don't.

According to the sources, Kalshi alerted its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to the suspicious activity on its "Mentions" market, where users can bet on whether specific words, phrases or topics are uttered during a public speech.

See, that's when I'd go all 'Impractical Jokers' on Donnie and get him to say 'rutabaga' or 'Sasquatch'. Also, only $100,000? Spread that around and let your friends and family share in that love. Grandma needs a jetski.

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u/MTFBinyou 20h ago

He can barely read. Guarantee it’s no higher than 3rd-4th grade level vocabulary. Rutabaga wouldn’t be said but some hilarious pronunciation would be. Doubt it’d be close enough to cash that bet out

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u/ThunderheadStudio 20h ago

After watching that cretin stumble over "acetaminophen" before giving up, I'd absolutely pay someone to put in mildly uncommon or technical words for him to utterly fail at comprehending and pronouncing.

Just to cement what an incurious dunce he is.

Not that we need more evidence, but I enjoy it.

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u/James-W-Tate 19h ago

Going forward I think presidential and congressional candidates should be forced to read a page or two from a few books at different reading levels. Maybe it would prevent us from getting some Donalds or Boeberts in the future.

Additionally I'd love to watch Donald attempt to do regular shit, like ride a bike or wash dishes.

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u/Chastain86 18h ago

Going forward I think presidential and congressional candidates should be forced to read a page or two from a few books at different reading levels

It may seem like just yesterday that Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin to "name a newspaper" that she read, and she said "all of them," but that was 2008 and I guarandamntee you that political candidates haven't gotten smarter since then

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u/James-W-Tate 18h ago

Man, I was so naive back then, thinking Sarah Palin was the floor for Republican stupidity. Simpler times.

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u/StongaBologna 17h ago

Nah.

I remember asking some 'publican people I knew, "HAH! Look at this Palin character, what do you think of that??"

Thinking it was clearly obvious how full of shit, unqualified, and downright stupid she was.

The response I received was something like, "She's a badass, she hunts and kills stuff"

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u/TheCheshireCody 12h ago

I remember thinking that back in 1988 when Dan Quayle couldn't spell "potato".

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u/Taokan 8h ago

Nah I mean, she was. Back then. But they've been hard at work digging lower.

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u/Sirwired 18h ago

And I remember how the GOP complained what a "gotcha" question that was.

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u/Chastain86 17h ago edited 16h ago

A query that, in the words of Seth Meyers, could have also doubled as a Family Feud question.

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u/rockytop24 17h ago

I was told she was too busy looking at Russia from her backyard to read papers.

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u/fatbob42 17h ago

Appropriate because she was the beginning of the part of the process that allowed a literal idiot to be elected. The other parts started earlier but she was the pioneer of Presidential idiocy.

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u/ThunderheadStudio 19h ago

They should be required to do comprehension reports on a few unbiased technical documents and a few cultural pieces, like poetry.

Not with like a pass/fail rubric, but with published results so you can get a read on how they think and what their strengths and weaknesses are.

I'd absolutely fucking love to read what this dipshit gets out of Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 18h ago

Come on! Isn't it enough that he can identify a camel and draw a clock?

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u/ThunderheadStudio 18h ago

Man. Woman. Person. Camera. TV.

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u/James-W-Tate 18h ago

Slow down bud, let's just make sure they can read first then we can move on to the more advanced stuff.

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u/ThunderheadStudio 18h ago

I mean, submitting a response of "huh huh shtup nerd reeding iz dumb" would be acceptable.

We just deserve to know if that's what they think, or are capable of.

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u/moosekin16 18h ago

He hatefully “imitated” a disabled reporter’s physical mannerisms. He falsely claimed immigrants were eating dogs. He stared directly at the sun (with no eye protection) during an eclipse. He has said “grab them by the pussy”. He has been found liable for damages for sexual assault / rape in a civil court.

You don’t need a test to know his thoughts. He’s made it abundantly clear already. His brain is racist soup.

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u/DingerSinger2016 18h ago

I can thoroughly assure you the vast majority of Americans would not spend two seconds reading that report.

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u/ContributionHead949 18h ago

can we throw in a ninja warrior and/or wipeout course run as well?

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 19h ago

“Ruta… ruta… bag? Wait like a bagel? Rudy’s bagel? He’s not even Jewish.” - Trump, if this happened.

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u/venom121212 19h ago

Ruth Bader Ginsburger

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u/destro23 19h ago

some hilarious pronunciation would be

I am announcing a 1000% tariff to help protect our beautiful American made road toboggans...

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u/Dave-C 18h ago

100% he would say ruta burger.

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u/mOdQuArK 18h ago

Change the prompter speech so that all the syllables are spelled out in what looks like short easy to pronounce words. Bonus is that it will make it more difficult for him to figure out what word he is actually saying.

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u/icepick314 19h ago

I was actually impressed by his pronunciation of hydroxychloroquine but that was from his first term.

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u/dubbleplusgood 20h ago

I would have enjoyed "Go fuck yourself America".

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u/kinyutaka 19h ago

I'm Ron Burgandy?

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u/Mobile-Bar7732 17h ago

Stay classy San Diego?

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u/ComradeJohnS 18h ago

his actions all say that. it’d be nice to have his words match his actions

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u/BoogerFeast69 19h ago

The weird thing is that nobody in the press would blink anymore. You could get him to announce that our newest allies, the lizard-person race of Jupiter's 32nd moon, have agreed to assist in securing the Strait by using their space lasers to shoot down the very unfair terrorist drones.

After a moment of quiet contemplation he would probably just add "The lizard people...very cold hands...the coldest. BUT their lasers are HOT...like the hottest you've ever seen...you wouldn't believe how hot...not as hot as OURS though. We've got the best lasers of course..."

And in 24 hours we would have all forgotten.

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u/uwu_mewtwo 19h ago

The headline: "In Primetime Speech, President Trump Takes a Hard Line on the Straight of Hormuz"

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u/wallybinbaz 19h ago

I'm so tired of this take. There was an ABC report this morning about the two Senate hearings held this week and mentioned falsehoods by the current administration throughout. ABC, specifically, uses phrases like "false claims about the 2020 elections" and other corrective language when reporting on Trump all the time.

Fox News and Newsmax are not all of the media.

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u/TittyMcFagerson 19h ago

This is not a problem constrained to just Fox and Newsmax, and if you haven't been paying attention to the endless sanewashing going on from every large media agency over the last decade then I don't know what to tell you. Life must be good under a rock.

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u/wallybinbaz 19h ago

Watch various ABC programs every day. They call out his shit, pretty consistently.

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u/TittyMcFagerson 19h ago

I mean ABC is probably one of the better ones, but still the language "false claims" is so weak. Do they ever call them what they are: lies?

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u/wallybinbaz 18h ago

They've used lies before, I believe. You also have to look at how much the administration has worked to chill the freedom of the press. ABC's owned broadcast stations are forced to defend their licenses early in the 8-year cycle. The FCC is now moving to override the national cap on TV broadcast ownership on a case-by-case basis, meaning only companies that agree with us are getting deals done.

Colbert's cancellation. Kimmel's suspension.

The NYT has reporters subpoenaed for Air Force One/Qatar plane stories.

Have to be careful how you criticize this administration.

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u/TittyMcFagerson 18h ago

You're absolutely right about all of that and I understand it has a significant impact on reporting standards. Truly dystopian times.

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u/ContextBotSenpai 18h ago

So, in other words - the media, INCLUDING ABC, are all sane-washing him and this administration, because they're okay not reporting on actual fascism as long as the Trump admin is nice to them.

Have I got that right?

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u/UnquestionabIe 18h ago

NPR can be pretty bad at times, both before and after Trump stole their funding. They'll have some dipshit on who will be very firmly a Trump lucky that they'll tiptoe around and then when the dumb shit eventually needs discussed will be as meek as possible about any pushback. Once in a long while you'll get someone who does challenge them but it's gotten more and more rare.

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u/amusingduck 19h ago

is "if you do this, make sure the boss gets a cut" an ethical guideline?

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u/Chastain86 18h ago

I believe in this administration, as with all criminal organizations, this is referred to as "the vig"

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u/pusgnihtekami 19h ago

Also, only $100,000?

I don't think the volume is very high on these things.

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u/traderncc 19h ago edited 19h ago

Kalshi upset it lost money, rats on customer. are we surprised?

edit: ok Kalshi actually noticed unusual activity--someone is winning with consistency. hahahahaha

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 19h ago

Kalshi can't lose money from bets. That's not how it works at all. They stake nothing, they pay nothing, they just take a percentage of all the money everyone else puts in and distributes winning bets.

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u/Any-Put-1992 18h ago

Fuck Kalshi and prediction markets. There’s only one winner and it’s the house.

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u/punkasstubabitch 18h ago

There is not a single White House Staffer who follows any ethics guidelines.

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u/MelancholyDick 18h ago

“Crangis McBasketball.”

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u/JimmyTheJimJimson 20h ago

I really hope the next administration comes in and prosecuted everyone who broke the law during this term

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u/shrewsbury1991 19h ago

Don't hold your breath

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u/BLT_Special 19h ago

Seriously, all these assholes are getting pardons. Nobody is going to face any jail time.

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u/incaseshesees 16h ago

as my friend says, we need to learn the new concept of "Unpardon"

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u/bannedagainomg 17h ago

Maybe the worst one will be getting pardons but i doubt anyone will get prosecuted either way.

Unless something goes horribly wrong a democrat should win next election and i would be willing to bet they say "we have to put it behind us and just move forward" or something like that.

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u/rjcarr 13h ago

For real, the COVID fraud was probably in the billions and nobody did a damn thing about it.

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u/SerpentRoyalty 19h ago

We've been through this once. The next admin will do nothing due to decorum (corruption).

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u/60k_Risk 19h ago

It should be a free presidential win for any candidate that can fund a campaign and run on the premise of fixing everything that went wrong from this administration.

- Instead of giving money back to corps for tariffs, stimulus checks

- Policies to lower grocery prices

- Charging and convicting Trump and his yes men for all of their crimes including crypto rug pulls, insider trading via platforms like Kalshi, insider trading on the stock market (Trumps entire family, close friends, and billionaire acquaintances)

- Charging and convicting government employees who knowingly went against the Epstein Transparency Act and knowingly withheld and redacted files that were supposed to be released in its entirety (Pam, Kash)

- Charging and convicting for misuse of tax payer dollars, eg partying and private flights for non business purposes (Kash, Pete, Vance looking at you guys)

These are NOT democratic talking points. These are not Republican talking points. These are guaranteed wins that the large majority of the country would vote for in a heart beat.

On top of that, a lot of first time voters feel duped for falling for Trump and republican propaganda. Even life long republican voters are pissed. People are eager for change.

The next election, if it happens, and happens fairly, will be the largest swing in recent history.

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u/fratticus_maximus 19h ago

Sorry, best I can do is "I don't like that black lady's laugh. It would be much worse under Kamala/Clifton" or "this candidate doesn't satisfy 100% of what I want even though he/she satisfy 80-90%. I'm going to sit this election out and let neo Hitler win" or "both sides are the same!"

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u/Ordinary-Egg-56 16h ago

vote for me!

if i was running for president i wouldn’t even be able to speak about a lot of the things i would do to correct this and punish all the people responsible because people would think it’s too extreme and because i would become a target of the right and they might actually try to kill me to prevent the retribution i have planned

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u/TrainingObligation 18h ago

Best we can do is give them complete amnesty. You know, so the nation can start to heal

/s

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u/Chastain86 18h ago

Just as sure as God made little green apples, you can count on two things -- Republicans will attempt to steal anything that's not nailed down, and Democrats will handwave away any attempts to hold them accountable in order to "help the country heal."

Fuck that shit.

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u/backpackwayne 20h ago

Well he figures Trump does it, why can't he.

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u/AudibleNod 20h ago

Because Trump didn't get his cut, that's why.

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u/RhoOfFeh 20h ago

The capo di tutti capi always gets a piece or someone's gonna be sleeping with the fishes. Capiche?

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u/Rudraksh108 18h ago edited 13h ago

I find myself thinking, what is the actual point of these laws if for the first time they're being stress tested and completely fail.....clearly whatever regulations and guardrails we have, are too slow to act and/or completely ineffective.

The people in the White House are all looting it and they're all in on it. Even the friggin teleprompter kid is looting from this White House. It's insane how there's zero respect. To me, the White House and presidency has lost so much allure and importance. When the next normal president comes in after Trump/Vance, the White House won't hit the same. The executive branch and judicial branch are compromised as fuck.

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u/jolly_hero 20h ago

Why are prediction markets legal. Zero benefit to society, only risk and daily examples of harm.

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u/MesquiteEverywhere 20h ago

Because Donald Trump Jr. is involved with both Polymarket and Kalshi.

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u/AwwwMangos 18h ago

He’s playing both sides, so that he always comes out on top

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u/jimothee 18h ago

This doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about playing both sides to dispute it

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u/devAcc123 19h ago

His son is on the board

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u/BoldestKobold 17h ago

On the board of one of them, while being a paid consultant for the other.

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u/Corronchilejano 20h ago

We are in the gambling era.

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u/FloatnPuff 19h ago

Because opportunities for upward mobility are so limited that people's best option to get out of the mire is to gamble their futures and these companies exploit and gamify that hopelessness and addiction. It's a really sad state to be in.

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u/plexxer 19h ago

I consider it from the opposite perspective - I tend to think that the liquidity is just so incredibly lopsided that these markets are just playthings to some people. Trust me, the same people creating these are the ones that would have sold slaves for the gladiator arenas if this were another time and place.

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u/Realtrain 19h ago

Bread and Circuses

Weed and Online Gambling

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u/LuciusCypher 19h ago

Because it makes rich people rich. Not society, but rich people.

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u/randomtask 19h ago

Because it’s a way for insiders with power or access to make money by fleecing rubes who don’t know better.

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u/pushaper 19h ago

I know Bill Maher is not popular but a while ago he made an interesting musing that america has lost its mentality of merit and defaulted to one of luck. It is not an unfair idea imo.

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u/1200____1200 18h ago

People have been gambling for a long time, this is nothing new

Betting on anything that can be easily manipulated, like the text in a speech, is an indicator of a gambling problem or general lack of an ability to think rationally

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u/heyheyhey27 19h ago

Something I've heard a lot is that many people who use betting apps these days don't think it's a good investment; they just have THAT little hope in the system. Their best shot is a literal gamble.

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u/UnquestionabIe 18h ago

My job involves a lot of gambling/lottery players and occasionally I'll probe a bit about why they spend so much. For probably 80% of them it's like you said, there is no hope within the usual means as there is always something waiting to bleed you dry at any given moment.

There are some who are well off and just gamble because they can afford to lose. Some of them are decent people but get some real assholes. One regular is this middle aged guy who used to own a bunch of local businesses but ended up in jail for a few years for various things (selling drugs, tax evasion, prostitution ring, and so forth) yet hasn't ever had to work again once he got out because he had enough stashed away in various places that the system couldn't touch.

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u/mrguyorama 13h ago

Like everything a gambler says about their gambling, that's a lie, and cope.

They gamble because it's addictive.

"It's the only game in town" is also horseshit, exactly like it was 100 years ago when gambling was this big previously. We've literally already been through this bullshit. The mob fixed the World Series last time this happened.

The actual game that is in town and can fix things is to vote for progressive populists who will fix shit. Like we did with FDR

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u/Toxyma 16h ago

i truly believe it is to actually get insider info on things. Think about it, if you can associate a real name for an account and that account takes a bet when they are in a position of confidential knowledge. you can, with almost complete certainty, trust they will be right.

Now what do they want that information for idk probably insider trading and shit on top of printing cash with their not-a-casino

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u/def_indiff 20h ago

"The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow," said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle when contacted by ABC News. "The staffer in question is fully cooperating with the CFTC."

That’s the funniest thing I’ve read today.

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u/SeeSeaEm 19h ago

John Oliver did a good segment on prediction markets.
For as long as its legal, I cant blame anyone.
John Oliver on prediction markets: ‘Betting on war is really dark’ | John Oliver | The Guardian

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u/Siegfoult 18h ago

Good piece. People need to realize that prediction markets are just casinos except certain people have an easy time cheating. If you aren't a cheater, your likely gonna loose.

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u/beerncheese69 20h ago

It genuinely amazes me that people willingly listen to that man speak

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u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero 20h ago

It’s not necessarily willingly, Trump enjoys it more when it isn’t consensual.

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u/Foe117 20h ago

"I'm Ron Burgundy?" Producer - Who the hell put a question mark on the teleprompter!?

Also, corruption begets corruption below them. Teleprompter is gonna get away with it.

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u/Negative_Gravitas 20h ago

Well, it really doesn't get any more on-brand than that.

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u/matunos 20h ago

Everything's become a big grift

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u/NotThatHandsomePete 19h ago

He's "in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations"? This is not illegal? And he's still the teleprompter guy. Interesting to see what he's already bet on tonight's shit show.

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u/IJourden 19h ago

...an administration so corrupt even the teleprompter guy is on the take.

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u/anchorftw 17h ago

Leavitt said she spoke with President Trump about it, and he thought it was a "disgrace" and made the decision himself to put Perez on unpaid leave. 

"The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow," said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle when contacted by ABC News.

How are they supposed to know it's not ok when they see everyone around them doing the same thing? Are these strict ethics guidelines in the room with us right now? lol

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u/hughk 15h ago

"The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow," said White House spokesperson

Can I stop laughing now? Or should I cry?

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u/LutherOfTheRogues 18h ago

The most corrupt administration in our history lol

There is just no end

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u/ThaddeusJP 18h ago

My take: Thats it? That kind of info and only 100k??

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 17h ago

Put me on the jury. There is no way I would find him guilty when his boss is blatantly grifting so much more.

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u/hellcheez 18h ago

only trump's family and close friends can make money off of him. thought that was known.

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u/thefanciestcat 7h ago

Watch them throw a White House staffer under the bus to make a show of pretending they have ethical standards.

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u/Alternative-Dot-884 20h ago

Ok when is someone going to sue these gaming companies for paying our rigged payouts?

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u/a_bagofholding 19h ago

It's still a gamble...you never know if Trump can read the words.

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u/Gwinntanamo 18h ago

“Regulators at the CFTC have expressed a willingness to settle with Perez, and have discussed terms with him that would require Perez to give back his profits and refrain from making similar trades, according to sources familiar with the ongoing discussions.”

So he has to give back his profits, and that’s the end of it? Sounds like a real deterrent…

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u/Zarmazarma 8h ago

Wow, even the little-man is in on the grift. Truly the most corrupt administration in history, from top to bottom.

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u/Evening-Ad-8218 19h ago

I gotta find a way to make money on this! Its simply too good!

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u/tooshpright 19h ago

If guilty yes he should be punished but frankly it's a drop in the bucket when you consider all the other grifts the leader has done.

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u/TaliskyeDram 18h ago

Only 100k? Trump and his cronies wipe their ass with that

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u/TheFlimFlamFamMan 17h ago

“The White House has strict ethics guidelines”. lmfao.

Everything they do is a hilarious projection.

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u/havereddit 17h ago

""The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow," said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle when contacted by ABC News."

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/TracerDX 15h ago

Teleprompter forgot he's not one of them. Only the rich get to game the system to get richer.

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u/2DamnRoundToBeARock 13h ago

“The White House has strict ethics guidelines…”. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/myotheraccount2023 13h ago

All he had to do was give Trump a cut.

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u/UMustBeNooHere 12h ago

"The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow," said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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u/JoIIyRanter 9h ago

We live in the stupidest timeline.

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u/Remarkable_Gain6430 7h ago

So this objectively hilarious event raises red flags but this administration doing insider trading for billionaires doesn’t even merit the twitch of an eyebrow. I salute that poor teleprompter guy.

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u/dubbleplusgood 20h ago

Let that be a lesson to all you Trump lackeys. You get kicked out if you don't kick up to Trump.

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u/gideon513 20h ago

In a sane world, this would mean prison time

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u/thekyledavid 18h ago

Least corrupt member of Trump’s staff

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u/CreativeFraud 20h ago

I need to sell my soul so that I can be rich too!

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u/Willing_Drawer_3351 19h ago

It's ok, the pardon is already paid for and drafted.

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u/NoMayoForReal 19h ago

This is like Conor and his UFC fight.

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u/MandoDoughMan 19h ago

Even the teleprompter guy in this administration is corrupt? lmao

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u/CatLord8 19h ago

“Now put the prompter at x2 speed! He needs to be done by 1h30m”

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u/Beetlejuice_me 19h ago

He only made $100K? Amateur.

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u/Equivalent-Resort-63 18h ago

“White House spokesperson Davis Ingle commented that "The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow." “

Found in The book of ‘Loosey-goosey ethic guidelines’ next to Mein Kampf on the bedside table of the orange goon.

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u/WhattaCheapPop 18h ago

Not going to hate on the guy because I assume a teleprompter operator isn't making bank or anything, but such an unbelievably fucked system we've created where this is possible.

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u/peejay5440 18h ago

Trump thought it was a disgrace.

That he didn't think of it first :)

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u/cheesypuffs15 18h ago

"Strict ethics guidelines" 🤣🤣

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u/Taco145 17h ago

Remember when conservatives held a press conference to reveal Bidens blatant corruption. They held up a $14k check from Bidens brother to Biden. Claiming it was bribe money from overseas.

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u/Noodle-Works 17h ago

Trump is totally betting on himself with Kalshi and Polymarket. There is no other reason to say "magnets" 43 times in a press conference.

oh that and the brain-melting dementia

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 17h ago

He's probably looking around at the blatant corruption and thinking "why not me, too?"

Then he soon learned no, that's only for the elites, not the peons.

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u/djm19 16h ago edited 16h ago

This just reeks of a culture where everyone is insider trading, insider betting, profiteering, bribing, getting their friends and family positions, contracts, etc.

And this isn't just a "teleprompter operator", hes deputy assistant to the president (one of the highest ranked positions in the WH). He makes $175K a year.

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u/cointoss3 15h ago

> The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow

Hahahahahahahaha. Hahaha, yeah, got it

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u/morfraen 15h ago

Figures they'd start with the lowest paid employee instead of the ones responsible for the worst offenses.

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u/Sarahgoose26 14h ago

He will be punished more than anyone in the actual administration I’m sure.

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u/CorellianDawn 14h ago

I love how when the lower class do it, there's headlines and hearings and arrests and fines, but the upper class do it and its Tuesday.

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u/welsalex 14h ago

Of course someone who works for him in support of his endeavors has no problem with using that to their advantage through fraud. But no, all the supporters act like "victims".

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u/SloaneWolfe 13h ago

We need to abolish all of these gambling companies. It's impossible for them to self-regulate all 'predictions' that had insider information.

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u/vizag 12h ago

If the fucker can say “well my sons have that insider information when I am president” if it’s ok for his sons why is it not ok for this poor guy? It’s corruption and illegal activity all through.

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u/iuseblenders 9h ago

The sitting president that has used his Office to gain $20 billion in personal profit thinks that some Poor schmuck that used his position to gain $100,000 is a disgrace.
. He’s probably just upset that he didn’t get more ill-gotten gains. He’s playing in the sandbox and Donald Trump owns the beach.

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u/SnooMaps1910 9h ago

Don Jr,
Eric
Bessent
And How Many More Including Donny are doing far worse and will escape justice.

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u/Tangnost 4h ago

Prediction markets are just insiders stealing money from gambling addicts huh.

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u/JFeth 19h ago

This is why prediction markets should be outlawed. People with insider info are making tons of money by cheating and the companies don't care as long as they get their cut.

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u/shinkouhyou 17h ago

I work in clinical research. Today I got a LinkedIn notification saying that Kalshi will soon let you bet on the results of clinical trails, and I started thinking of all the ways that drug company employees, doctors, patients, clinical trial staff, study monitors, data analysts, safety board members, lawyers, consultants, FDA employees and others would be able to use insider info to bet (potentially compromising the study in the process). Most of these people would not be obviously linked to the company running the trial, and some would have access to data from a lot of different trials, so it would be hard to detect insider betting (especially if insider info were laundered through spouses or friends). A handful of fairly easy-to-trace people might have access to insider information about a Trump speech, but hundreds of difficult-to-trace people could have insider information regarding a clinical trial. Insider stock trading based on clinical trials is already an issue, but Kalshi would make it infinitely easier.

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u/ToxicAdamm 19h ago

Victimless crime to me. People who bet on polymarket nonsense do not deserve sympathy.

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u/BetaRebooter 17h ago

Who fucking cares, if a low paid teleprompter can take advantage of this fat fuck financially good on him

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