{"id":3799,"date":"2026-07-19T04:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:41:06","slug":"maga-stars-vance-bets-spark-insider-trading-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3799","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Stars\u2019 Vance Bets Spark Insider Trading Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Republican insiders are being investigated over bets made with potentially confidential information, including more than one that predicted JD Vance would be announced as Donald Trump\u2019s vice presidential pick in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3797\">Fox Host Sours on Trump\u2019s Strikes After Troop Deaths Revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bets, allegedly placed over multiple years by many different insiders, were reportedly placed through the online betting platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, The Wall Street Journal reports. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The potential instances of insider trading were first flagged in April by the White House Counsel\u2019s office, which learned that anonymous Polymarket accounts had made five-figure bets on the Iran war ceasefire. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Concerned that the information had come from staffers working inside the building, with sensitive knowledge regularly available to them, the White House began to look into who might have placed the bets. <\/p>\n<p>It also prohibited staffers from making trades or placing bets using insider information, but by then, some traders had already won as much as $600,000 betting on the Iran war ceasefire, according to the Journal. <\/p>\n<p>Even earlier, beltway insiders were speculating on who would be Trump\u2019s running mate and using the speculative market platforms to cash in. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo previously unreported election bets were placed around the 2024 presidential race based on tips that Trump would pick JD Vance as his running mate, according to people familiar with those incidents,\u201d according to the Journal. <\/p>\n<p>Political insiders are known to keep a close track of betting odds ahead of elections. Some see them as a better gauge of public sentiment than polling.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2024, over lunch at The Stovall House\u2014a members-only social club in Tampa\u2014House Republican Anna Paulina Luna of Florida\u2019s 13th district, reportedly told her dining companions she knew Vance would be picked as Trump\u2019s running mate. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3795\">Trump Breaks Silence on American Troops Killed in Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said she had tipped off Rogan O\u2019Handley, a popular MAGA influencer known as \u2018DC Draino,\u2019 about Trump\u2019s pending decision so that he could use the information to place a winning bet on Polymarket,\u201d the Journal reported a person present had said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe congresswoman teased O\u2019Handley, the person said, for not placing a bigger wager.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luna, O\u2019Handley, and the White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Handley reportedly told others that he had attempted to get Trump to pick Luna as his running mate. When she told him that Vance would be the pick instead, he placed a bet. <\/p>\n<p>Both O\u2019Handley and Luna have denied the claims. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cl am honored the WSJ thinks I am telepathic, but unfortunately I am not,\u201d Luna told the Journal, adding she would fight against insider trading.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Handley, too, denied any involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny suggestion that I traded on confidential information or discussed doing so is inaccurate,\u201d he said in a statement to the Journal. <\/p>\n<p>The allegation is under investigation, but that does not mean there is any evidence of wrongdoing. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>White House spokesman Davis Ingle told the Journal that administration officials are prohibited from using non-public information for personal financial gain, and said any implication that administration officials engaged in such activity without evidence is baseless and irresponsible reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3794\">Kai Trump Gives Update on Mom\u2019s Health Battle<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican insiders are being investigated over bets made with potentially confidential information, including more than one that predicted JD Vance would be announced as Donald Trump\u2019s vice presidential pick in 2024. Read more Fox Host Sours on Trump\u2019s Strikes After Troop Deaths Revealed The bets, allegedly placed over multiple years by many different insiders, were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MAGA Stars\u2019 Vance Bets Spark Insider Trading Concerns - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3799\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MAGA Stars\u2019 Vance Bets Spark Insider Trading Concerns - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Republican insiders are being investigated over bets made with potentially confidential information, including more than one that predicted JD Vance would be announced as Donald Trump\u2019s vice presidential pick in 2024. 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