DOJ arrests soldier who made $400,000 betting on Maduro's removal: Sources

At the very least, the soldier should have worn spray tan.

Wdym D. T. Jr. Being the Strategic Adviser of Kalshi is totally unrelated. What about Hunters ~~d***~~ laptop?

shhhh those guys need a scapegoat so they pretend something was done🤫

Should be his defense. His government that gives him his orders is doing stuff like this all day in broad daylight. I’m just following the example they set for me, sir.

***It’s a big club, soldier, and you ain’t in it.***

Yup. Unless you the type of mf who can get a reservation on the very exclusive child f*** island I wouldn’t try this kind of shit haha

Yeah its classic "make an example of someone so we look like we are cracking down on it"

Because it was Hegseth who screwed up

If they’re worried about justice, why did they release all the January Sixthers?

‘Cause Petey said right in the chat that they were good on opsec

"We are currently clean on OPSEC," said Pete Hegseth in a chat that inadvertently included an editor from The Atlantic on an ***insecure fork*** of Signal made by a foreign company that modified the app to send an unencrypted copy of every message to servers in Israel for preservation. It's so much worse than people realize. [This talk at DEFCON](https://youtu.be/5VlhsT5Kbsk?t=42) (an infosec conference) covers it well.

They're letting it ferment

Just for more context, SignalGate wasnt even just one breach but MANY and it happened a few times later in different was as well, to the point a year later(March 2026) the FBI and Dutch intelligence identified a sweeping campaign targeting individuals with "high intelligence value," including government officials, military personnel, and journalists.

Their next tip

Just made money on betting this soldier would get arrested

...the $400k they confiscated from the soldier

More tax breaks.

The fall guy, now they have someone to point to so they can dismiss claims the entire administration is doing it.

More ZJ's at massage parlors

AIPAC money?

The soldier deserves this if he's guilty. So do they, but so does he.

Kickbacks! Sorry, I just blurted that out. I should have waited for my turn.

Jfc, these people have no shame.

John Oliver *just* did an episode on these gambling sites. It’s no more a “prediction” market than betting on which horse will win a race.

I just watched the ending of that press briefing. It does indeed stop before the 65 minute mark, but it didn’t seem forced or abrupt or anything.

I wonder if Karoline bet on herself for that?

He didn't even make enough for a pardon. Poor planning all around.

In just the last 30 days of the Iran war alone, 1-3 people have made BILLIONS on the market manipulation with the March 23rd incident being the most valuable when ***5 minutes before Trump's announcement a $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures were bought in a single clip and $192M notional of oil futures were (CL) sold.*** Then on Friday April 18th, just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, ***someone sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, a $760 million bet that oil would go down.*** Trump continues to prove he's jealous of the military, absolutely hating them (and hes a corrupt piece of shit)

All it takes...his cut. I'm waiting to see someone try with income tax. Don't pay the feds just pay Trump half

he hates soldiers. losers and suckers don’t get to grift.

There’s only one rule: the rules apply to others

yeah but here's the thing, Trump's family is on the board of both betting sites, so it's definitely not illegal for them to do

"When you're famous, they let you do it."

He should have had a trust execute the bet

To show that they are 'doing something about it' for prediction markets, sending a grunt to jail is a small price to pay.

And it's the ONLY reason they're "predictive."

Including Vegas. A lot of Felon Dump's biggest backers were Vegas shillionaires.

Few years ago we had a change in the laws in Spain which allowed to open betting houses. What good has it brought? None. Blue collar workers with little education and dealers and his friends are the main clients. Police doing periodic checks and brawls from time to time.

We can only hope a future Democratic administration does exactly this. They probably won't, but isn't it nice to dream?

We don't have a justice system, we have a legal system. As there is hardly any justice and your wealth determines which laws pertain to you.. Have enough cash, and they'll write laws for you.