President Pandemic's Republican Enemy

LOL...they must be related. Have to be. There is no other logical explanation.

Well, except for the fact the Senator Burr is being investigated for insider trading

The seizure is a “significant escalation,” the Times said, into whether Burr violated an insider trading law that’s meant to prevent members of Congress from selling stock based on information gained in their work.

So your in mind, because he is a Democrat he is above the law.

Your last sentence is interestitng. By reversing the order of the words "in your." making them "your in,"
you start by confusing the reader. Ending it by suggesting that Burr, who is a lifelong Republican, is a Democrat shows that you may be confused. Burr, a Republican, sold $1.7million worth of stock at a time when President Pandemic was saying that he had everything under control. In fact, he made two speeches that very week saying the Coronavirus could go away when things warmed up in a couple months. Burr may have believed those statements and went about his usual practice of deciding, independent of outside consultation, when to buy and sell stock. By suggesting that Burr knew that President Pandemic's public comments were incorrect, is Barr confirming that lies were being told about the seriousness of the pandemic? If Burr should have known that the pandemic presented a serious problem, and he was just a Senator, shouldn't President Pandemic have known? If he did know and was telling us that it was under control and would soon just disappear, was he knowingly lying? Wait until lawyers (and politicians) get their hands on this!

Oh I am sorry. I made a mistake on both calling Burr a Democrat and making a typo in the last sentence. That totally means I was being deceptive.

This does nothing to undermine the reality that Burr is being investigated FOR CAUSE.

"Burr, a Republican, sold $1.7million worth of stock at a time when President Pandemic was saying that he had everything under control. In fact, he made two speeches that very week saying the Coronavirus could go away when things warmed up in a couple months."

One has nothing to do with the other. You are simply trying to postulate that Burr could use Trump's own words as a defense. But that isn't the BASIS FOR THE INVESTIGATION.

The question is whether or not Burr had "a reasonable expectation" that HIS OWN (meaning Burr's) speeches would cause markets to trade on his That is the test for insider trading. Did a person trade, or cause people to trade, on "non-public MATERIAL information".

Burr's trading pattern is dubious, as noted by Forbes, the majority of trading activity occured just before Burr would deliver remarks that would predict EXTREME MEASURES being taken to combat the virus.

"Several of the stocks sold were in companies that own hotels, an industry that has been decimated by the coronavirus. The bulk of Burr's stock sales took place on February 13, just before he made a speech predicting extreme measures would have to be taken to check the spread of the virus, including closing schools and cutting company travel, according to audio obtained by National Public Radio."

Burr is a member of the Intelligence Committee. He had access to non-public information as a result of his membership on said committee. The President's speeches are of zero relevance to Burr's own selling before he made comments that may rise to a "reasonable standard" for him to preclude a sell off was possible.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-richard-burr-senator-seize-cell-phone-investigation-insider-trading/

If President Pandemic says something that goes against all science tells us, we are supposed to believe that he knows more than everyrone else, and the bad news is just a hoax made up by Democrats to make him look bad. Unless, a Senator who took a high profile public position that might present President Pandemic in a bad light. Then, we are supposed to ignore everything President Pandemic said. But, that means that he is a liar and responsible for how bad the pandemic hit, because he ignored it when he and Burr knew it was going to be bad enough to make the stock market sink. Right. That is what you are saying, now.

And,, I said the typo produced confusion, not deviousness,

Again, your simply clutching at straws, your ignoring the simple fact that Burrs actions form a basis for the investigation, and you have zero evidence to support your claim that the investigation is retaliatory in nature.

Yeah. The only evidence I have is President Pandemic's pattern of seeking to have vengeance on anyone who doesn't look the other way for him Whether it is a decorated Army Lt. Colonel or a trusted CIA Analyst. If you cross President Pandemic, he will get even. I am going to actually love watching the Republican Senator who knows where all the bodies are buried taking on the Republican President, right before an election in which Senators have already been cleared of any obligation to defend the Pandemic President, if it poses problems in this year's contest for them. That didn't sit well with him, when it came out in the news. He needed to send Republicans a message. Putting Burr's feet to the fire, fits his m.o.

LOL...the President can fire anyone in his employ. These instances do nothing to bolster your conspiracy theory.

You are also ignoring that Dianne Feinstein was also questioned by the FBI, and that she handed over financial documents related to her families trading activity around the same time as Burr made his trades. They also, Burr and Feinstein, sit on the intelligence committee together.

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