That does very little to diminish the incredibly suspicious nature of having the family members of a notoriously corrupt president on the board of a dubiously-legal-at-best company whose product is a platform for betting on major world events.

I know those two are different things, but both have the same problem here. What point are you making?

There’s no difference because the point isn’t to take advice. The position is an excuse to award shares.

Donald Trump Jr. is a paid advisor and investor to Kalshi and Polymarket. Why bother betting if they will just give you cash for having the right name.

Granted, the son whose wedding you skip has got to be lower down the food chain.

Don Jr made bets on these same sites, as did so many WH personnel.

as well as all the other points everyone else made, less conspicuous ways to profit may also have upper bounds, even if a prediction market has upper bounds two sources of profit will probably allow you to profit more than one.

it is true that a smart operator may like to profit only in the less conspicuous way, but what would cause you to think that applied to Trump and his family?

> there are much less conspicuous ways to profit

What about this administration makes you think that's important to them?

What's the less conspicuous way? Oil futures are more conspicuous. Though I'll bet he's doing that for someone less directly connected.

Nothing this administration does is subtle, inconspicuous or thought out.

Who cares about being conspicuous anymore? The president openly takes crypto bribes...

It's just another avenue for grift. In corrupt governments, the people up top ration out minor grifts to subordinates to keep them loyal.

These people are seasoned grifters. They don't look for one big winning ticket, but rather multiple streams. A million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking real money. For your rank-and-file workers that's serious.

"can't be brazen corruption because it's too obviously brazen corruption"

Like what?