Gabriel Perez, who has operated President Donald Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, was placed on unpaid leave after reports he used advance access to presidential speech scripts to trade on Kalshi’s “Mentions” market, where users bet on whether specific words or phrases will be said in public remarks. ABC reported Perez made more than $100,000 on major speeches, including the State of the Union address earlier this year. Kalshi said its surveillance team flagged the trades and referred them to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, while the White House said Trump was aware of the matter and called it “unfortunate” and “a disgrace.”