Eric Lipton

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759 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 5 Aug

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Fresh Air · How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

But it is a bit crazy that there are three different sets of sons of prominent leaders in the current administration that are involved in business deals that benefit from or intertwine with what their dads are doing in office.

So, again, you have a president who's setting policy by appointing leadership at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees the predictions markets.

At the same time as the Trump sons are advisors to or have financial ties to both of the two major predictions markets companies, Polymarket and Kashi.

So my two colleagues, Sharon Lefrenier and David Yaffe-Belmy, have largely been covering the predictions markets actions.

But it's another venue where there are these overlaps that are very unusual.

I mean even now, Trump Media, in addition to becoming a nuclear company, is offering to sell –

immediate knowledge of what his true social postings are, which are immediately affecting the markets, and particularly affecting the predictions markets.

If you pay them a special fee, you can instantaneously get access to the content of Trump's social postings, and it creates an appearance of an insider trading transaction.

And Trump is the primary shareholder of Trump Media, and his sons are involved in running the company.

And Trump media itself is looking to move into the predictions markets.

You know, it's just everywhere you look, there are a blurring of lines.

I mean, the Democrats continue to send letters to these agencies and to the White House asking questions about many of these stories.

We see those letters.

But no, I mean, the Republicans who have subpoena power in both the House and the Senate, they're working on investigating Fauci and the pandemic or whatever.

or other matters that they're not.

No, there's not a single open investigation other than outside of Epstein that has in any way touched on Trump that I'm aware of.

None of his business operations have been subject to any congressional oversight by a majority committee.

And the Democrats are writing these letters and they generally don't even get responses.

So the Congress has decided not to commit oversight to this topic.

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