Trump’s teleprompter operator made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say — while holding the only advance copy of the speech.

Gabriel Perez has run Trump’s teleprompter since his 2016 campaign.

Kalshi alerted federal investigators who found he bet on more than a dozen Trump speeches over three months on the prediction site, using the site’s “Mentions” market, where people wager on whether the president will say a specific word, phrase, or topic.

Perez was never guessing. He always had the final eyes on all of Trump’s prepared remarks, and often took last minute edits directly from Trump himself. He was one of only a handful of people holding the speech in advance.

The bets included February’s State of the Union, a December primetime address, Trump’s January speech at Davos, and his March remarks at a Medal of Honor ceremony.

Investigators even found moments where Perez bailed out of a bet mid-speech when Trump skipped a section that included a word he bet would be said. 😂

Kalshi froze $90,000 of his profits and banned him from the site.

Using nonpublic government information this way can be prosecuted as wire fraud, commodities fraud, and money laundering. What do you think Trump’s prosecutors did?

Back in March, the White House sent staff a memo warning that misusing government information “is a very serious offence and will not be tolerated.”

Perez holds the title of Deputy Assistant to the President with a $175,000 salary, just $20,000 below top staffers like Susie Wiles and Karoline Leavitt. He’s now on unpaid administrative leave, and he’s negotiating a settlement that would make him hand back his profits.

Prosecutors declined to open a criminal case. I wonder who stopped them…
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