Between December 2025 and February 2026, the CFTC said Perez earned $107,500 through prediction-market trades tied to language expected to appear in Trump’s speeches
Gabriel Perez, the White House technical assistant who has loaded President Trump's teleprompter since the 2016 campaign, is under federal investigation for allegedly turning his advance access to presidential remarks into a six-figure payday on a prediction market, and the president himself called the scheme a "disgrace." The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is probing whether […] The post Trump's teleprompter operator placed on leave after allegedly pocketing $100K betting on presidential speeches appeared first on American Almanac .
Gabriel Perez, the White House technical assistant who has loaded President Trump's teleprompter since the 2016 campaign, is under federal investigation for allegedly turning his advance access to presidential remarks into a six-figure payday on a prediction market, and the president himself called the scheme a "disgrace." The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is probing whether Perez placed bets on more than a dozen Trump speeches over a three-month stretch, wagering on Kalshi's "Mentions" market, where users bet on whether specific words, phrases, or topics will come up during a public address. ABC News reported that Perez is believed to have won more than $100,000 using inside knowledge of the president's prepared text. The White…Open
A White House teleprompter operator has been placed on unpaid leave after his online prediction market activity, which showed he was placing wagers related to President Donald Trump’s public remarks, was flagged to federal regulators.
"The Kalshi surveillance team promptly flagged, investigated and referred these trades."
President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say.