The man who loads President Donald Trump's words into the teleprompter has been quietly betting on which of those words the president would actually say — and winning big, sources told ABC News.
Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant who has run Trump's teleprompter since 2016, allegedly pocketed more than $100,000 on the prediction market Kalshi by wagering on Trump's speeches, according to sources familiar with a Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigation. He placed bets on more than a dozen addresses over three months, the sources said, including February's State of the Union, a January speech in Davos, and a March Medal of Honor ceremony.
Perez typically gets the final look at Trump's prepared remarks and takes last-minute edits from the president himself, the sources said. Investigators found that Perez also backed out of wagers mid-speech when Trump skipped a word he'd bet on.