Anna Paulina Luna Reportedly Tipped Off MAGA Influencer Who Won Big Betting on Trump’s VP Pick

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) allegedly tipped off a popular MAGA influencer about President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick in 2024 — and the influencer later won big betting on the insider information, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.

Luna reportedly “told associates” at a lunch in Tampa, FL, in the summer of 2024, that she knew Trump would choose J.D. Vance to be his running-mate, the outlet reported.

According to “a person familiar with the conversation,” Luna then admitted to tipping off MAGA influencer Rogan O’Handley, who goes by the online handle, “DC Draino,” so he could bet on Vance via prediction market platform Polymarket.

Luna allegedly said she “teased O’Handley” about “not placing a bigger wager,” The Wall Street Journal reported.

O’Handley also told associates he placed “a winning bet” on Polymarket after receiving the Vance tip from Luna.

When WSJ reached O’Handley for comment, he denied “receiving, trading on or discussing nonpublic information about Trump’s vice presidential pick.”

“Any suggestion that I traded on confidential information or discussed doing so is inaccurate,” he told the outlet in a statement in which he denied wrongdoing.

Another source told WSJ the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission was investigating the allegation of insider trading. Not all investigations are “indicative of wrongdoing,” the Journal noted.

O’Handley said he was “unaware of any federal investigation.”

Luna lodged a criminal complaint with the CFTC “alleging someone had made knowingly false reports to that agency,” a spokesman for the congresswoman said.

The congresswoman dismissed the suggestion she’d given anyone insider information.

“I am honored the WSJ thinks I am telepathic but unfortunately I am not,” she told the Journal in a statement, adding she would “continue to champion the fight against insider trading.”

Luna has led the charge in the House of Representatives to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, and filed a discharge petition in December to bring bipartisan legislation to the floor for an up-or-down vote.

“This is one of the most popular, most supported issues in the entire country,” Luna said in a press release. “Americans deserve a Congress that works for them, not for special interests or personal portfolios.”

Earlier this week, ABC News reported that Trump’s teleprompter operator made $100,000 on a prediction market by allegedly using insider information from the president’s speeches.

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