A teleprompter operator for Donald Trump has been suspended over allegations he placed bets with a prediction market on the content of the president’s speeches, the White House said Thursday.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the teleprompter operator was put on unpaid administrative leave on the orders of the president and “will no longer be working at the White House.”

Trump “believes it’s deeply unfortunate and frankly a disgrace,” Leavitt said of the technician’s alleged actions.

“There are very strict ethical guidelines here at the White House that explicitly state not to do this,” she said.

According to ABC News, Gabriel Perez allegedly made more than $100,000 with bets placed on the prediction market Kalshi about specific words or phrases that would appear in the president’s speeches.

Perez placed bets on more than a dozen of Trump’s speeches, ABC News reported, including his 2026 State of the Union address and his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Kalshi alerted the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to what was seen as suspicious activity and Perez, who has been operating Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, is currently in settlement talks with the market regulator, ABC News said.

ABC based its report on multiple sources who have knowledge of the matter but spoke on condition of........

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