{"id":540186,"date":"2026-04-20T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540186\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:05:10","slug":"the-insider-trading-suspicions-looming-over-trumps-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540186\/","title":{"rendered":"The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump&#8217;s presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dec 2025: Burdensome-Mix account created<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">2 Jan 2026: Account puts $32,000 on Maduro being ousted<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">3 Jan 2026: Maduro is seized and Burdensome-Mix wins $436,000<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The recent growth of online predictions markets has also drawn scrutiny from observers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blockchain-powered platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi offer users the chance to speculate on anything from the weather to baseball to US foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Trump&#8217;s son, Donald Trump Jr, is an investor in Polymarket and sits on its advisory board. He also acts as a strategic advisor to Kalshi and has been contacted by the BBC for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December 2025, one user created an account on Polymarket called Burdensome-Mix. On 30 December, it placed its first bet on Venezuela&#8217;s President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro being out of office by the end of January 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Between 30 December and 2 January Burdensome-Mix placed a total of $32,500 on the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Maduro was seized by US special forces and ousted the following day, Burdensome-Mix won $436,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly afterwards, the account changed its username and has not placed any bets since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 2025: Burdensome-Mix account created 2 Jan 2026: Account puts $32,000 on Maduro being ousted 3 Jan 2026:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}