Seth Moulton
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It's just extraordinarily corrupt at levels we've never seen before.
And it goes right back to the president and his family.
I mean, look, at the end of the day, I'm going to be shocked if Don Jr.
himself is not the one making these bets and profiting off them.
Because it's clearly someone who has incredible inside information.
This happened with the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
It's happened off of things like the Nobel Peace Prize.
I mean...
It's extraordinary how much people are profiting off this.
War profiteers.
And, you know, so when I called out that bet online and the polymarkets responded and said, oh, you know, sorry, this violates our ethical standards.
And so we took it down.
It turns out that it doesn't even violate their standards.
They're just making up that story that they have standards in place because
because it was embarrassing to them.
And there are hundreds of war bets still online right now.
So what needs to happen is the government needs to actually exercise the regulatory authority it already has.
The CFTC can regulate these markets, but that's obviously not in the interest of the administration because it's profiting off these bets.
The vast majority of them on the floor of relatives, friends, a few of them still in tents in what was pretty cold weather, very windy, a lot of rain at the beginning of the week, on the Corniche in Beirut.
And we'll be a lot stronger for it.