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Elissa Slotkin: “Same thing ahead of the Iran war.”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Published | Video Starts at 03:23

Before we went into Venezuela, you had a bunch of people get online anonymously and go under the prediction markets and say, I bet we're going to have some military action in Venezuela tomorrow. And made a ton of money, Same thing ahead of the Iran war. And these are people we can assume who have insider information that we're launching military operations. Number one, that's insider trading. Number two, it's also a complete operational security risk. (03:23–03:26)

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Asserts that similar prediction market betting occurred before military action in Iran.

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