Trump embraced the gambling industry for decades. Now he's hedging his bet on prediction markets.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday bemoaned to reporters the surge of interest in gambling and prediction markets in recent years, but he and his administration have been all in on the phenomenon, an NBC News review shows.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday bemoaned to reporters the surge of interest in gambling and prediction markets in recent years, but he and his administration have been all in on the phenomenon, an NBC News review shows.
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