Officials probe if Trump's teleprompter guy traded prediction markets
Someone inside the White House might have turned presidential speeches into a live casino strategy.
Federal investigators are looking into whether a White House teleprompter operator used advance knowledge of Donald Trump's speeches to place winning bets on prediction markets.
Before a president speaks, someone has to load the text onto the screen. Having even a two-minute head start on specific buzzwords or announcements is basically an infinite money glitch on political betting sites.
This marks the first known insider trading investigation targeting prediction market bets made from inside the presidential residence.
Political commentary has officially evolved into high-frequency algorithmic trading driven by the guy pressing the down arrow on a speech script.
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