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Rhiannon12866

(205,237 posts) Fri Oct 29, 2021, 04:26 AM Oct 2021

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Republican Senator In Hot Water Over Sketchy Trades Despite Free Pass From Trump DOJ - TRMS

Rachel Maddow shares reporting from Pro Publica on SEC filings that show Republican Senator Richard Burr who was privy to exclusive government information dumped stock before the Covid-driven market crash, and called his brother-in-law who also dumped stock ahead of the crash, even as Burr publicly assured Americans of the government's preparedness for the pandemic. Aired on 10/28/2021.

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Republican Senator In Hot Water Over Sketchy Trades Despite Free Pass From Trump DOJ - TRMS (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 OP

Family photo found on the web. multigraincracker Oct 2021 #1

And it's a Thanksgiving dinner photo, too! LastDemocratInSC Oct 2021 #5

does anything ever happen to these fucking cheaters Skittles Oct 2021 #2

How about the DOJ whitewash that let him off the hook? bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 #3

Nothing will happen to him Sherman A1 Oct 2021 #4

Some people are just above the law Ohioboy Oct 2021 #6

multigraincracker

(32,674 posts)

1. Family photo found on the web.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Fri Oct 29, 2021, 05:07 AM

Oct 2021

LastDemocratInSC

(3,647 posts)

5. And it's a Thanksgiving dinner photo, too!

Reply to multigraincracker (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 29, 2021, 09:13 AM

Oct 2021

Skittles

(153,150 posts)

2. does anything ever happen to these fucking cheaters

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Fri Oct 29, 2021, 06:09 AM

Oct 2021

I am curious

bucolic_frolic

(43,139 posts)

3. How about the DOJ whitewash that let him off the hook?

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Fri Oct 29, 2021, 06:37 AM

Oct 2021

Americans, including Martha Stewart, deserve to know who made that decision, why, and under what rationale.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

4. Nothing will happen to him

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Fri Oct 29, 2021, 06:42 AM

Oct 2021

He is a Republican and the rules simply do not apply to them.

Ohioboy

(3,240 posts)

6. Some people are just above the law

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Fri Oct 29, 2021, 09:48 AM

Oct 2021

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