Teleprompter Betting Probe
A White House teleprompter operator is accused of profiting by betting on Trump speeches.
Summary
The White House placed Gabriel Perez, President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator, on unpaid administrative leave after regulators began investigating whether he made more than $100,000 betting on Trump’s speeches on Kalshi. Perez, who has operated Trump’s teleprompter since the 2016 campaign, allegedly traded in Kalshi “mentions” markets using advance access to speech text, including a State of the Union address. Kalshi flagged the activity through surveillance systems, froze most of the profits and is cooperating as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examines potential insider trading.
The Coverage
Insider betting
Gabriel Perez used privileged access to Trump’s speeches to place profitable prediction-market bets on what the president would say. His alleged conduct turned secret White House speech information into personal gain and created an embarrassing insider-abuse scandal.
