GOP Senator Kept Coronavirus Info Secret for Weeks, But Shared It With Wealthy Donors

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GOP Senator Kept Coronavirus Info Secret for Weeks, But Shared It With Wealthy Donors
by Colin Kalmbacher | 11:50 am, March 19th, 2020


North Carolina’s Republican Sen. Richard Burr had key information about the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) three weeks ago. This information was not shared with the general public or his broader constituents, however, and was only supplied to wealthy donors at a posh “luncheon” in Washington, D.C.

In a secret audio recording obtained by National Public Radio’s Washington Investigative Correspondent Tim Mak, Burr can be heard relaying information about the severity of the Coronavirus well before even the White House was coming clean about the potential pandemic and resulting panic.

Warning only North Carolina’s business elite, Burr said:

There’s one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history. It’s probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic.

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[GusBob]

1. The new LIHOP

everything old is new again

[FiveGoodMen]

12. Does that mean we'll soon be flooded with "mature" posters telling us not to believe it

because it makes us look bad?

[The Magistrate]

2. There Is No Bottom With These People, Ma'am

A ballot cast for a Republican is a vote for treason.

"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[shanti]

18. Magistrate!

Welcome back, my friend! Good to see you posting again

[xmas74]

20. Yay!

A voice of reason has returned.

Welcome back!

[gibraltar72]

3. Because his first allegiance is To Trump

not actual constituents.

[Zoonart]

4. Stock manipulation.

[Trailrider1951]

13. This right here

Wonder how many of those "Captains of Industry" called their brokers right after that "luncheon"?

[IADEMO2004]

14. +++ tons of cash to buy at the bottom.

[ck4829]

25. Indeed

[dalton99a]

5. They're sipping champagne in their yachts, laughing at the peasants fighting over toilet paper

and dying

[Windy City Charlie]

6. I'd be checking

I'd be checking this guest list and see how many of them dumped their stocks shortly there after.

[dem4decades]

10. It should be publicized for all to see.

[empedocles]

7. Sen. Burr, descendant of Aaron Burr, who was indicted for murder of actually good Alexander

Hamilton.

Burr slipped out of NY to evade charges. Also tried for treason. Avoided convictions.

Political career over, lived rest of his life in 'obscurity'.

[C_U_L8R]

26. Nice family. Burr shot Alexander Hamilton.

[Amaryllis]

8. Darn that NPR. Uncovering secret recordings...do secret recordings qualify as fake news?

[Dawson Leery]

9. A vote for a Republican is a vote for your own death.

[ck4829]

24. Yep

[Lars39]

11. Tar and feathers

[ck4829]

23. It's that time

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Richard Burr

Making North Carolina great since....

Oh, wait...never mind.

Here's his phone number for anyone who wants to tell him how we feel about this: 202 224 3154.

[MoonlitKnight]

16. Insider trading

[ck4829]

22. +1

[bdamomma]

17. I wish you could

listen to what Randi Rhodes show on March 17th show, that during the transition in 2017 between the Obama and tRump administration they actually had a briefing called the novel corona virus and what to do about and precautionary measures. The Trump advisors were very arrogant about the information and asked why were they there for. They totally blew if off.

This is what we have now totally dismissive of the whole pandemic.

[BeckyDem]

19. Wealthy donors, their poorer base never seems to get the picture.

[ck4829]

21. K&R