FBI serves Sen. Burr with a search warrant

[Qutzupalotl]

Link to tweet

NEWS: FBI serves search warrant on Sen. Richard Burr, Republican chairman of Senate Intel committee, to obtain his cell phone in Justice Department probe of his controversial stock trades, law enforcement official says. me and @jenhab

Story here: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-05-13/fbi-serves-warrant-on-senator-stock-investigation

[Roland99]

1. Ooooo. That's gonna Burrn

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@SenatorLoeffler @KLoeffler @robportman

Please pick up the white-crime courtesy phone

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Thread in LBN:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142493299

[fishwax]

3. great news! ... I wonder if Barr will try to call them off

[enid602]

40. Barr

Barr sicked the FBI on Burr, who has been seen as not being loyal to tRump.

[fishwax]

41. yeah, that does seem pretty likely

[GoCubsGo]

4. Hope they'll be serving Kelly Loefler tomorrow...

She makes my skin crawl.

[PatSeg]

6. Oh, same here

A crueler version of Cruella DeVil.

[iluvtennis]

10. Me too.nt

[dalton99a]

28. +1

[ecstatic]

39. She won't. This is only about getting back at Burr. Barr

has no problem with criminals who kiss trump's ass.

[CentralMass]

5. What are the odds that he gets away with it ?

[Jamastiene]

26. Pretty high, but it is still nice to watch Republicans sweat for a while first.

This is the closest to any kind of hope for justice a Democrat from NC will ever get. I'm still going to enjoy watching the FBI hassle him for a while until he gets away with it. I hope he at least loses more money than he gained by his insider trading. I hope at least that much happens. Still, just to see the FBI go after him at all is more than I thought I would ever get to see. I want to see them go after as many NC Republicans, especially, as possible. It would be the only way NC Republicans ever have to answer for their corruption. Nobody in this state will do anything to them, see? So, we don't stand a chance of seeing anything done to them unless the feds go after them. So, it'll be fun while it lasts at least.

I just woke up. This is the first story I saw. I wanna watch him squirm, but what I really wish I could see is him and more Republicans in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.

[Baked Potato]

7. Ooops...

[chowder66]

8. Makes me wonder what he was up to during the Russia investigations as well.

[salin]

9. Anyone else hear an echo or possible 'quid pro quo' delivered by Barr's Bureau FBI ?

trumpco is less likely to be able to intimidate the Dem (minority) chair of the Senate Intell committee, which is contradicting the new 'Obama Gate' bullsh&t, than it is to flip Burr.

Burr's greed/malfeasance (while protecting trump's early false/public endangaring proclamations of the dangers of the spreading covid 19) left him vulnerable to threats of legal actions (because - attrocious/illegal (?) behavior) - aka as old Russian style "Kompromat."

If Burr flips on this position that the earlier reports regarding affirmation that Russia DID interfere in the 2016 election, we need to find a verb to create and use regularly to 'brand' the Trump move of threat of use of US govt to bring great harm, as an effort to coerce an action intended to help his reelection/cement his power. Something like: Trump has just Ukrained Sen Burr."

Don'T get me wrong - Burr is spot on wrong/awful in his actions on this and deserves to stand accountable. I just hear echoes of earlier actions in this move, that makes me think there is a more important story line playing out - that further lays bare the total abuse of power from the WH and the Barr DOJ, and that needs to amplified.

[dem4decades]

11. Obama did that? Should have known.

[RockRaven]

12. Note that they've gone after the one that is a) retiring and b) cross-wise with Dump

Great. You brave heroes.

Now do Loeffler and Ron Johnson...


:crickets:

[crickets]

30. Agreed - especially Loeffler, good grief.

eta - you rang? I appear. hee.

[Lucinda]

13. Good. n/t

[blogslut]

14. Think about this:

Link to tweet

Spencer Ackerman
@attackerman

The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee got his phone taken by FBI search warrant!

9:23 PM · May 13, 2020

[SheltieLover]

15. K&R!

[Sugarcoated]

16. If he's the only one who gets the FBI treatment

and not the other Senators who engaged in insider trading than this is retribution from president Lysol on a disloyal Republican.

[ibegurpard]

22. This

[UTUSN]

17. *shocking* (that there still is a semblance of FBI)

[Blue_true]

38. It could be Trump revenge. The Senate Committee that Burr chairs has

been pretty evenhanded to be led by a repugh. It't latest action was to release a report that Trump couldn't have been happy with.

I can promise you that if Burr resigns, he will be replaced with a knuckle-dragging Trump sycophant who will stick fingers in ears not to hear any negative facts about Trump.

[greenjar_01]

18. Payback from the Trump/Barr dictatorship for crossing Trump in the Senate Intel report

Wake me up if they so much as sniff around Loeffler.

[liberalla]

19. Delicious!

OMG

This is stunning news! You know this is making a few more people very nervous tonight.

It's turning out to be a delicious day!

[littlemissmartypants]

20. HOORAY!!! This is the BEST news I have heard in a while.

I'd love nothing more than to see "do nothing Burr" suffer from his hubris. He's consistently been one of the Absolute WORST congressional representatives in North Carolina history.

[Orrex]

21. Has Trump pardoned him yet?

[Gothmog]

23. This makes me smile

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[Gothmog]

24. From Barbara McQuade

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?s=20

[Jamastiene]

25. I would love to see him in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit soon.

Sweet! I do love the smell of a NC Republican being served a search warrant in the morning.
What a great start to the day.

I hope justice actually get served. It never does down here in NC. Let's hope something gets done to some of these corrupt NC Republican fuckers from NC at the federal level. I hope it lasts beyond the election and we get to see him in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit and on his way to the pokey.

It would be a fitting justice to see most of the Republican Party in handcuffs and ORANGE jumpsuits.

[mwooldri]

31. If it happens soon...

... NC might have a special election this November for Mr. Burr's seat. In addition to Thom Tillis's seat. This could help Democrats regain the US Senate.

I am definitely not a fan of Mr. Burr. When he was in the US House, I reached out to his office for help. Yes, I lived in his district. I got no help at all, save a "form letter" and email as reply. A relative in a neighbouring district reached out to their Congressional Representative (the late Howard Coble) and their office was all over my case in no time. At that time I didn't live in Howard Cobles district. Redistricting meant we did end up in his district eventually.

A bit long winded I know but here's my point - our elected leaders are here to work for us. When they forget this and think it's about them, then sooner or later they will have their posterior handed to them. A good team behind the elected representative and an actual warm and functioning "heart" can go a long way to ensure job security as an elected representative no matter what party.

[Jamastiene]

33. I understand and agree with that, but I was thinking about the courts

and our government as it is right now. Right now, our courts and our government, in general, are full of Trump people in charge of everything. If they make any decisions right now, it will go in his favor. That is how I was looking at it.

The way they have it in NC now though, as I understand it goes like this:
Gov. Cooper would have to pick a Republican to replace him and it has to be chosen from a list made by the NC Republican Party. Remember when the Tea Party made a bunch of special laws just for Cooper when he defeated McCrory? That is one of the laws they made. That person would serve until 2022.

https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/BySection/Chapter_163/GS_163-12.pdf

http://bluenc.com/content/be-careful-what-you-wish-should-burr-resign

[sunonmars]

27. How did I miss this.....

[BComplex]

29. Wow!! It appears that the REAL legal system has had enough of Barr and his thugs.

They're going to be coming so fast and furious that Barr won't have time to handle each one, and it's going to show just what a shit show he is trying to run for trump.

[Jamastiene]

34. I sure hope so.

I'm so sick of NC Republicans just running roughshod over everyone. I'm sick of all Republicans doing it, everywhere, but here in NC, they have gotten away with FAR too much for FAR too long. To see him gone would be awesome beyond words. To see him in an orange jumpsuit would be fitting.

Did you know: They made a law that said Republicans would chair every election board during even years and Democrats would chair in odd years. NC does not have elections in odd years. That's the kind of nonsense from Republicans we have had to put up with from this bunch of corrupt, extremist Republicans in NC.

To see any Republican from NC go down? Somewhere an angel got their wings.

[BComplex]

35. I'm hoping this election in November will see a stop to their nonsense.

I'm tired of it too.

[SayItLoud]

32. tRUMP & Barr payback. NT

[bucolic_frolic]

36. A highly unusual step

In the last 50 years, how many times has the FBI served a search warrant on a sitting US Senator?

Lindsey prob thinks the FBI has a case of Martha Stewart Syndrome

[Cha]

37. KR!