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Burr served warrant in Covid stock trade, FBI took his cell phone (Original Post) mobeau69 May 2020 OP
I bet he has a burner or two BSdetect May 2020 #1
I was getting ready to write essme May 2020 #2
Can't be Stupid? Roy Rolling May 2020 #9
I bet Trump was behind this, gab13by13 May 2020 #3
Yes! Delphinus May 2020 #4
Beat me to it. Zoonart May 2020 #6
I'll applaud when they take down Kelly Loeffler. Zoonart May 2020 #5
Why not Loeffler too? lark May 2020 #7
Only investigating Burr, gab13by13 May 2020 #8
As always, its open revenge for someone who didn't uphold his lies. lark May 2020 #10
This! +100 this. n/t MFGsunny May 2020 #11
+infinity splunge63 May 2020 #13
Apple just got served to get Burrs icloud accounts too sunonmars May 2020 #12
K&R for visibility. crickets May 2020 #14

essme

(1,207 posts)
2. I was getting ready to write
Thu May 14, 2020, 06:50 AM
May 2020

Surely to god someone told him to ditch his phone, and get a new one. He can't be that stupid.

Roy Rolling

(6,933 posts)
9. Can't be Stupid?
Thu May 14, 2020, 08:28 AM
May 2020

Apparently, there is no limit.

The problem for him is, they all thought the market decline was gonna be a blip, a speed bump on the way to new highs. When the pullback hit 20%, he became a poster child for insider trading by politicians.

He can’t hide out in the open like Republicans have become accustomed. Everyone who took a 20% hit in their 401-k is now looking for him. He pissed off the 401(k) crowd—the swing suburbanites Republicans had counted on to vote regardless of the candidate.

Except when their candidate took money out of their pockets. It’s how Republican selfishness works, I don’t make the rules.

gab13by13

(21,405 posts)
3. I bet Trump was behind this,
Thu May 14, 2020, 07:13 AM
May 2020

remember it was Burr's committee that recently confirmed that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Trump is sending another message to people who cross him.

Delphinus

(11,840 posts)
4. Yes!
Thu May 14, 2020, 07:17 AM
May 2020

Why just him? Why not Loeffler and the two others? From Heather Cox Richardson:

So why Burr? Remember I mentioned that the Senate Intelligence Committee agreed with the Mueller investigation, and that It was due to release the final volume of its report soon? Burr is the chairman of that key committee. If he is discredited enough to lose his chairmanship, McConnell will get to choose his replacement. And it’s a pretty safe bet the committee will no longer support the conclusions of the Mueller Report.

[link:https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-13-2020?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta|

Zoonart

(11,878 posts)
5. I'll applaud when they take down Kelly Loeffler.
Thu May 14, 2020, 08:11 AM
May 2020

Burr may have used his insider info, but he was also Chair of the Intel Committee during the impeachment and this is pay-back.

lark

(23,156 posts)
10. As always, its open revenge for someone who didn't uphold his lies.
Thu May 14, 2020, 08:38 AM
May 2020

He's really pissed at Burr putting out the report that indeed Russia did attempt (ha, did it not attempt) to highjack the 2016 election in favor of drumpf. He didn't go along with the "it's all a hoax" strategy like Toad Barr did and drumpf totally lives for reverge.

Edit - fixed typo

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