Sen. Chris Murphy
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So the prediction market game is really all about
Bets where powerful people know the outcome and can profit.
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.
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.
And they see an infinite amount of enrichment that comes from these markets.
Your question is an interesting one, right?
And I literally got it two or three times yesterday.
And of course it's not too late.
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.
Like, a lot of people do know what happened with those Iraq war bets.
And here's where I just think the Democratic Party perpetually suffers from lack of imagination, right?
So we should say that if you elect us...
we are going to take all these corrupt prediction markets down.
Now, whether we can or not, right, that's a question of the politics of the moment.
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.
If Democrats are elected, we are going to
break up all these big, corrupt, monopolistic media companies that have been constructed under Donald Trump's regime.