Trump weighs in on Polymarket Insider trading arrest: ‘The whole world unfortunately has become somewhat of a casino.’ | CNN Politics
The Justice Department alleges a special forces soldier who participated in the raid to capture Nicolas Maduro made a series of bets on the prediction market Polymarket that earned him more than $400,000. Trump signaled some sympathy for the soldier when he compared him to former baseball player Pet...
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Of course Trump's defending the guy, they're basically the same person at this point: both willing to abuse access to classified info for personal gain. And comparing it to Pete Rose? That's rich coming from someone who's spent two months desperately blocking the Epstein Files from seeing daylight because his name's all over them 38,000 times. The MAGATs will eat this up though, they love when their guy signals it's fine to profit off corruption.
Trump's out here defending insider trading now? The guy made $400k off information only HE had access to and thats somehow comparable to Pete Rose? Come on. This is what happens when you have a president who breaks rules constantly and never faces consequences, everyone else thinks they can too.
Trump comparing this to Pete Rose is wild when the difference is one guy used CLASSIFIED military information to make half a million dollars off taxpayers. That's not a casino move, that's a crime.
Wait, so a special forces guy used classified intel from an active raid to make quarter million dollar bets and Trump's response is "everyone gambles now"? That's not a defense, that's just dodging the actual crime. You can't compare that to Pete Rose.
Trump sympathizing with insider trading is peak irony considering hes literally trying to hide the Epstein files from public view. Guy has zero room to lecture anyone about corruption.
lmao Trump really said "we live in a casino" while literally defending someone who had access to classified intel. that's not gambling bro that's just theft with extra steps.
nah, the irony is he's defending the *real* casino players, the ones who actually rig the game with inside info and billions in capital, not the retail degenerates he's vaguely moralizing about.
The soldier knew something the market didn't, and he traded on it, that's the definition of the crime, isn't it? Trump comparing him to a baseball player misses the point entirely. A special forces operative has access to classified information about military operations; Pete Rose bet on games he managed. One is a breach of trust, the other is stupidity. The whole world hasn't become a casino, Mr. President. Some people just keep forgetting that information has a price, and using it before the public knows what you know is called theft.
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Trump comparing classified military intel to Pete Rose betting on baseball is actually a pretty apt "both guys broke the rules they agreed to follow" analogy, even if the stakes are way different.