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"One of monetising whatever possible, from the presidency to your online presence, and turning the public into marks. There is a promise that anyone can achieve the same success as the hustler."
#Trump #Iran #war #Polymarket #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #futures #profiteering #InsiderTrading
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"As a result of these transactions, people are naturally asking if it is possible that the president of the United States or his associates are illegally profiting from political power, while also finding that it is almost impossible to answer that question. ...
There is a wider cultural shift, one that is being consolidated in the White House and disseminated on betting platforms."
#Trump #Iran #war #Polymarket #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #futures #profiteering #InsiderTrading
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"Before the US attack on Iran, several new accounts on the platform predicted the timing of the US/Israeli strikes, just 24 hours before they happened. The same pattern was identified after the US coup in Venezuela in January. A single account, set up only a few days before military action occurred, made more than $400,000."
~ Nesrine Malik
#Trump #Iran #war #Polymarket #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #futures #profiteering #InsiderTrading
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Will Trump bring peace, or more bombs? Shady speculators seem to bet right every time
The president may not be benefiting directly from betting markets, but he has encouraged a culture that treats politics like a casino floor, says Guardian columnist Nesrine MalikNesrine Malik (The Guardian)
"We are now staring at mounting evidence that the war with Iran was not just avoidable — it was actively avoided until it suddenly wasn’t.
The people who flipped that switch were not generals, diplomats, or even traditional policymakers with expertise. They were two men with deep financial entanglements in the Gulf: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Iran #war #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #profiteering
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saltypolitics.substack.com/p/w…
We Are At War Because Trump's Paymasters Demand It
Diplomats involved in the Iran talks suggest that Kushner and Witkoff may have actively distorted the state of negotiations in order to push the United States into warJulie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
"Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 social media post claiming that the war in Iran was winding down."
Reed McMaster offers a valuable list of MAGA commentators from Ben Shapiro and Nick Fuentes to Steve Bannon pressing this point.
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering #morality
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mediamatters.org/us-iran-relat…
Right-wing media accused Trump of “obvious” stock market manipulation
Update (3/27/26): This piece has been updated with additional examples. Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 social media post claiming that the war in Iran was …Media Matters for America
"There was no discernible reason for these sudden jumps occurring at 6:50 am, normally a fairly sleepy time for premarket trading. But when Trump’s 7:05 am announcement about all those productive conversations predictably drove oil prices down, and stocks rebounded, those 6:50 am traders made bank. In just a few moments, those anonymous and fortunate folks made roughly $580 million."
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #profiteering #morality
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"How else do you explain that about 15 minutes before Trump’s surprise announcement of how hunky dory talks were going, there was a sharp increase in purchases of stock market and oil futures?"
~ Lisa Needham
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
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publicnotice.co/p/trumpism-dea…
What do you do when you can't trust the government?
The haze of contradictions and confusion is a feature, not a bug.Lisa Needham (Public Notice)
"And like you can bet on preposterous, dystopian life and death things that like, of course, nobody should be able to gamble on. Right. Like, I think we all sort of understand that, like, this is a Black Mirror episode when we're gambling on like which, you know, part of Tehran is going to be bombed on what day."
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
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"The reason people are getting so upset about these markets and the reason that politicians now are introducing bills to rein them in is because you can gamble on Iranian missile strikes and, you know, how many deportations will take place in America and whether Gaza will experience a famine."
McKay Coppins
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
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thebulwark.com/p/how-america-l…
How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gambling
McKay Coppins on his year of degenerate gambling.Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark)
"On unregulated betting markets, people are setting themselves up to make millions if Trump re-escalates, wagering on the precise timing of a land-invasion of Iran."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering
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Expose ALL Of Trump's War Profiteering
It can serve as a downpayment to the world on our commitment to restore accountable democracy to America.Brian Beutler (Off Message)
"The 'cool' thing is that he got $2 billion from the Saudis to launch his fledgling equity firm, Affinity Partners, six months after his father-in-law left the White House."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'
Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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"Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared on stage yesterday at a global investors’ conference in Miami. He explained why he likes leading a multibillion-dollar global investment firm.
'The cool thing about the investment business is you’re meeting with really smart people all the time,' Kushner said."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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The Grifter's War
Jared Kushner is egregiously exploiting American lives to further enrich himselfSteven Beschloss (America, America)
"iI’d very much like to know exactly who was making those trades yesterday morning,' Krugman wrote. 'Were they people directly in the know, or billionaires/traders who paid people in the know for tips?'”
#Trump #Iran #war #PredictionMarkets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering #OilFutures
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"The evidence for such a claim is the sudden and isolated jump in trading volume in S&P 500 and oil futures about 15 minutes before Trump suddenly announced that the U.S. and Iran were in negotiations to end the war—an announcement that turned out to be false."
#Trump #Iran #war #PredictionMarkets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering #OilFutures
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"The oil futures trade alone was worth about $580 million, the Financial Times estimated. As Krugman notes, exploiting confidential information for financial gain, otherwise known as 'insider trading,' is illegal. But exploiting confidential information about national security for private financial gain is something else again. It puts profit-making above Americans’ safety."
#Trump #Iran #war #PredictionMarkets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering #OilFutures
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"This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: 'People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.' Another word for that, he said, is 'treason.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Iran #war #PredictionMarkets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
March 24, 2026
This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.” Another word for that, he said, is “treason.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
Yet at that time — 15 minutes before Trump’s announcement — there were no public indications that any serious talks had been taking place between the U.S. and Iran.
So this huge spike in stock market trades and drop in oil futures must have been made by someone, or some people, who had prior knowledge of Trump’s announcement.”
#Trump #Iran #war #PredictionMarkets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering
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“15 minutes before Trump announced that the U.S. would postpone strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure, the volume of stock market trades mysteriously spiked and the price of oil just as mysteriously plunged."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Iran #war #PredictionMarkets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering
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