President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is “not happy” with prediction markets, after federal prosecutors charged an Army special forces soldier with turning $33,000 into more than $409,000 on Polymarket by betting on the raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Master Sgt. Gannon Van Dyke allegedly placed the wagers using classified information about the operation in the days before it became public.
Asked about the case in the Oval Office, Trump reached for a sympathetic comparison. “That’s like Pete Rose betting on his own team,” he said. “Now, if he bet against his team, that would be no good, but he bet on his own team.”
Rose, the all-time MLB hits leader, was banned from baseball in 1989 for betting on games involving his own team.
Pressed on separate insider trading concerns around Iran war contracts, Trump’s tone shifted. “You know the whole world, …
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