[Kalshi Investigates Suspicious Trades on White House Press Secretary Pick] According to The Wall Street Journal, prediction market platform Kalshi is investigating a series of suspicious trades on its platform related to the selection of Trump's new White House Press Secretary. These trades bet that Trump would choose conservative commentator Katie Zacharia for the position. A Kalshi spokesperson confirmed the investigation but declined to comment further. The White House had previously announced that Zacharia would replace Karoline Leavitt as Press Secretary. In July of this year, a White House teleprompter operator was dismissed for allegedly using insider information to bet on Trump's speech content on Kalshi.