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Sen. Chris Murphy

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162 total appearances

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

So the prediction market game is really all about

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

Bets where powerful people know the outcome and can profit.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

And that's why Eric Trump and Donald Trump are deeply integrated into these industries because they and their friends are the ones that profit.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

They are the ones, very likely, that placed those bets on Friday before the Iran war started that the war was going to start 24 hours later.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

And they see an infinite amount of enrichment that comes from these markets.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

Now, here's where...

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

Your question is an interesting one, right?

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

And I literally got it two or three times yesterday.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

Is it too late?

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

And of course it's not too late.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

But people...

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

I feel kind of baked into the culture, baked in the... Yeah, but it doesn't... But people are beginning to smell how corrupt these markets are.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

Like, a lot of people do know what happened with those Iraq war bets.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

And here's where I just think the Democratic Party perpetually suffers from lack of imagination, right?

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

So we should say that if you elect us...

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

we are going to take all these corrupt prediction markets down.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

Now, whether we can or not, right, that's a question of the politics of the moment.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

But we should promise that we are going to eliminate corrupt prediction markets the minute you elect us, just like we should be saying to the broader case of the work that this organization does.

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

If Democrats are elected, we are going to

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Today, Explained
Tackling Trump’s corruption

break up all these big, corrupt, monopolistic media companies that have been constructed under Donald Trump's regime.

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