Senator Chris Murphy: The day before the Iran War, a flurry of big prediction market bets were placed

[Passages]

- likely from Trump staff - that the war would start the next day.

That's outrageous, and today @RepCasar and I introduced legislation to ban these corrupt prediction markets.

Link to tweet

[sop]

1. "Donald Trump Jr. has heavily invested in and advised major prediction market platforms,

notably becoming a strategic investor in Polymarket through his firm 1789 Capital and a paid adviser to competitor Kalshi. These investments, along with plans for a Trump family platform 'Truth Predict,' place him at the center of the growing, and sometimes controversial, election and event betting industry during his father's second term." (from the NYT)

[Beartracks]

2. Nope, nothing to see here. No corruption. Move along. Move along...

[hay rick]

3. Like the Black Sox scandal, except people died as part of the entertainment.