A Polymarket trader made $300,000 betting on Biden's pardons, a new analysis shows

In the final hours of President Biden's term, an anonymous prediction market trader placed lucrative bets on who would be pardoned even as the odds were nearly zero.

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A Polymarket trader made $300,000 betting on Biden's pardons, a new analysis shows

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