The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer Insider War Trading and “Killed to Order”
Mar 25, 2026
Jan Jekielek, senior editor at The Epoch Times and author of Killed to Order, discusses China's role in global strategy and claims about state‑sponsored forced organ harvesting. Conversations cover possible insider trading around the Iran war, prediction‑market anomalies, China's tactical moves with Iran and Venezuela, and how these issues shape U.S.-China relations.
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Prediction Markets Enable Potential War Insider Trading
- Prediction markets like Polymarket and Calci enable high-value bets on geopolitics with minimal oversight.
- Examples include a user 'MagaMyMan' netting nearly $1M and suspicious $580M oil futures trades minutes before a Trump True Social post.
Timing Of Big Futures Trades Points To Leaks
- Major futures trades timed minutes before presidential announcements suggest leaks from small decision-making circles.
- Reported trades include up to $1.5B in S&P futures and $192M in oil positions placed just before policy posts.
Investigate Markets And Strengthen CFTC Oversight
- Regulators must investigate prediction-market and futures trades tied to classified policy moves.
- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission lacks commissioners and oversight while platforms like Polymarket operate internationally and opaque.
