
Laura Lee's Sin Bin - Gabriel Perez
Published: July 21, 2026
Duration: 3:23
A White House teleprompter operator allegedly turned his job into the easiest insider-trading scheme imaginable. According to federal investigators, Gabriel Perez, who's been running Trump's teleprompter since 2016 and often sees the final speech drafts, including last-minute edits, allegedly bet on Kalshi's "Mentions" markets, where people wager on whether certain words or topics will be said during a speech. Investigators believe he placed bets on more than a dozen speeches and made over $100,000 before Kalshi's own fraud detection noticed the suspicious pattern and reported it to regulators. He even allegedly adjusted or backed out of bets mid-speech when Trump went off...