It is genius and very illegal if this proves to be true. ABC News reports:”Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the president who has been operating Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations he used his inside knowledge of the president’s speeches to win more than $100,000, the sources said. 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.”
The Suspect is, a technical assistant who has operated Trump’s teleprompters since 2016. Because he often had final eyes on prepared remarks and input on last-minute edits, he held unique access to nonpublic speech texts.Read more here.
