Trump’s Teleprompter Operator Made $100K Betting on His Speeches

A White House teleprompter operator appears to have made over $100,000 betting on President Trump’s speeches. ABC News, citing unnamed sources, reports that a longtime staffer for the president, Gabriel Perez, was placing bets on Trump’s speeches on the prediction market Kalshi, sparking an investigation from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC. Perez, a technical assistant, has operated Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, and is now speaking to federal investigators over allegations…