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Katie Zacharia breaks Anthony Scaramucci’s record and shakes up Polymarket 📉⚡

If you thought the crypto market moved fast, Washington politics just told it: “Move over, I’m coming through.” Katie Zacharia was removed from her position as White House press secretary after just 5 days on the job, breaking the record for the shortest tenure and sparking absolute madness on platforms like #apuestascrypto

What began early in the week as a success story for traders who scored a 100x by predicting her appointment ended in a total collapse of contracts for those who bet on her staying in prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
What happened? A brief timeline of a lightning-fast collapse 🏛️💥
• Monday: Officially begins her duties.
• Tuesday: Gives her first and only press briefing, called “disastrous” because it lasted just 5 minutes and she read almost everything from a script.
• Wednesday–Thursday: The scandal breaks. It’s revealed that Zacharia publicly presented herself as a “lawyer” without having passed the bar exam after graduating.
• Friday: President Trump tells the media that he advised her to “reconsider” the position because the press was being very tough on her. Hours later, her departure is confirmed. She lasted just half a “Scaramucci”!

The crypto lesson: Real political volatility 💸
For the Web3 community, this event is a gold mine of trading lessons. Contracts betting on Zacharia’s departure before the end of the year went from being worth just a few cents to paying out their full value in a matter of hours.
Those who closed their positions in time are celebrating; those who held on through the hype suffered a full-blown political “rug pull.”
Did you manage to trade this market before the drop? Do you think crypto prediction markets are now the most accurate gauge of the global political climate? 💬👇
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