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By John Wojcik
The American people’s confidence in the ability of their national leaders to steer the country through the coronavirus pandemic was shattered further today when it was revealed that several top U.S. senators on the intelligence committee used advance knowledge of the coming coronavirus disaster to dump stock they owned and rake in huge profits before the disease struck.
Sen. Richard Burr, GOP chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, acted on what he learned at a classified briefing to sell stock valued at up to $1.6 million dollars—much of it in the soon-to-be-decimated hotel industry. What’s worse, on the day he did that, President Trump was on national television saying the virus was not a threat to Americans in general and would soon “disappear.”
Sen. Burr compounded his illegal “insider trading” by alerting several of his top campaign donors to what he knew from his classified briefing so they too could cash in by dumping stock they owned, according to a secret recording revealed by NPR.
Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California also cashed in.
Meanwhile, Burr, Inhofe, Loeffler, and most of the other Republicans in the Senate, which is working on an economic relief package for the nation, are crafting a bill that provides people on the bottom of the income scale with far less money than it provides for people at the top....
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