Rep. Luna requires Trump pardon of soldier who wager on his personal mission

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is asking for a pardon for a U.S. Particular Forces soldier facing decades in prison after being accused of betting on his personal mission, saying it's a double normal for a embellished service member to face jail whereas lawmakers obtain a "slap on the wrist" for related conduct.

Luna known as for the pardon on "The Ingraham Angle" Friday, arguing the potential sentence shouldn't be "true justice" as she claims insider buying and selling repeatedly happens amongst members of Congress.

"This man is going through a long time in jail," Luna stated. "In the meantime, each single day on Capitol Hill, there are various members of Congress on either side which can be presently participating in insider buying and selling."

Grasp Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke helped plan the seize of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro . Federal authorities later stated that, earlier than the mission, Van Dyke positioned a wager on a prediction market platform that Maduro could be eliminated, and he won more than $400,000 because of this.

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., vowed to expel Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., if he doesn't resign. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)

President Donald Trump weighed in Friday, evaluating the case to baseball legend Pete Rose, who was banned from Main League Baseball.

"That is slightly like Pete Rose ," Trump stated when requested concerning the case. "Pete Rose, they saved him out of the Corridor of Fame for betting on his personal workforce. Now, if he wager towards his workforce, that will be no good, however he wager on his personal workforce. I am going to look into it."

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The Florida congresswoman stated her effort to deliver forth bipartisan laws to ban insider buying and selling by lawmakers was blocked by management.

She stated it could not be proper for a service member to face years in jail for doing one thing lawmakers get away with.

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"Is it truthful for him to be going through a long time whereas Nancy Pelosi walks free? It isn't," Luna stated.

Pelosi has denied insider buying and selling allegations. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper final yr, she stated, "I very a lot help the cease, the buying and selling of members of Congress. Not that I believe anyone's doing something flawed. If they're, they're prosecuted they usually go to jail."

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., spoke to members of the media exterior a Home Republican Convention assembly on the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

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Van Dyke was charged with wire fraud, making an illegal financial transaction and violating the Commodity Change Act. The bets have been made between December 2025 and January 2026, with the final positioned simply hours earlier than the operation started.