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Republican Richard Burr Dumped Up To Millions of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness

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Via ProPublica:
Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 29 separate transactions.

As the head of the intelligence committee, Burr, a North Carolina Republican, has access to the government's most highly classified information about threats to America's security. His committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings around this time, according to a Reuters story.

A week after Burr's sales, the stock market began a sharp decline and has lost about 30% since.

On Thursday, Burr came under fire after NPRobtained a secret recording from Feb. 27, in which the lawmaker gave a VIP group at an exclusive social club a much more dire preview of the economic impact of the coronavirus than what he had told the public.
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Fucking trash. I hope all of these Republican dick heads die in this mess of their own making. Lock if old.
 
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From 'quake area to big OH.
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